[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 32 (Friday, March 4, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E422]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS AMENDMENTS, 2011

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                               speech of

                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, March 1, 2011

  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.J. Res. 44, a 
short-term continuing resolution (CR) for one simple reason. It 
continues the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  Yesterday, nine Afghan children between the ages of nine and fifteen 
were killed by a NATO strike after being mistaken for insurgents. 
General Petraeus issued an apology and promised to investigate the 
killings. According to the New York Times, news of their deaths sparked 
anti-U.S. protests. They were killed in the Pech Valley, an area of 
Afghanistan once considered vital to U.S. military strategy, that the 
U.S. military will soon be withdrawing from after a realization that 
our presence was destabilizing the area. Our presence in Afghanistan is 
destabilizing the country as a whole, not just in the Pech Valley.
  We can no longer ignore such incidents as just a part of the reality 
of war. It is time to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have 
only undermined U.S. national and economic security.

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