WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By raising the specter
of a possible World War III predicated on Iran's nuclear energy ambitions,
"the White House rodeo cowboy has gone dangerously too far and
precipitously too close to igniting the war he claims to be trying to
avoid," Ohio Congressman and Democratic presidential candidate Dennis
Kucinich said today.
"You can worry about the Apocalypse, or, you can ensure it by
manipulating intelligence and, with pre-meditation, put your finger on the
trigger that will make Iran the next deadly domino in the President's
irresponsible and irrational approach to the complex and sensitive
political issues that make the region a more volatile tinder box than ever
before," Kucinich said.
"The President told the media yesterday that this wasn't his first
rodeo," Kucinich said. "It's also not the first time he's invoked the
potential of another world war to bolster support for his monumentally
failed foreign policy. Any leader who, either off the cuff or
intentionally, conjures up rodeo analogies to defend himself is far beyond
colorful, albeit inarticulate aphorisms. Those horsemen he pridefully
alludes to are not from a rodeo, they are the horsemen of the Apocalypse.
And he must be stopped before unleashing them."
Kucinich continued, "If the President continues policies that fuel the
extremists in Iraq because of our continued occupation, and if he continues
rallying support in Congress for possible aggression against Iran, he is
purposely fulfilling his own prophesy and sentencing this nation and its
brave sons and daughters to a war that never ends and a newer, bigger war
that will be even more horrific."
Kucinich said the leadership of the Democratic Party has failed to
curtail the President's war policies. Members of Congress who supported
anti-Iran measures or did not challenge them, and Presidential candidates
who fail to understand the gravity of the situation and speak out are "in
dereliction of their duty to the citizens of the United States of America."
The invasion and occupation of Iraq, Kucinich said, "provide
overwhelming evidence that the President and his cohorts in the
Administration and in the Congress deceived the American people, lied to
them, and violated their Constitutional oaths of office. Using that wholly
fraudulent proposition to springboard to an attack on Iran is not only
Constitutionally impeachable, it is patently criminal under the laws of
this nation."