WASHINGTON - February
26 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made
the following statement about the ongoing war in
Afghanistan:
“The Washington
Post reports that nearly one billion dollars per
year in cash, suspected to include U.S. aid,
opium receipts or both, is moving from
Afghanistan to Dubai, where friends and family
of Afghanistan’s President Karzai have
multimillion dollar villas.
“Dubai real estate
deals and a number of crooked enterprises
connected to the Karzai family have created
crony capitalism in a country awash with U.S.
cash and U.S. blood.
“Nearly 1000 U.S.
soldiers have died. And for what? Hundreds of
billions spent. And for what? To make
Afghanistan safe for crooks, drug dealers and
crony capitalism?
“Next Thursday, I
will bring a privileged resolution to this House
so that Congress can claim our constitutional
right to end this war and to bring our troops
home. Please support the resolution.”
Kucinich will
introduce the resolution on Thursday, March 4,
2010. It is expected that the resolution will
be taken up for consideration on the following
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 and that the debate
will be subject to a rule providing for three
hours of debate.