[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13740]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         BOMBING IN AFGHANISTAN

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, news accounts indicate that hundreds upon 
hundreds of innocent Afghans have been killed by mistakes by U.S. war 
planes. Stop the bombing. We have no quarrel with the Afghan people. 
The Taliban are overthrown. Al Qaeda has fled. bin Laden has vanished, 
and yet the bombs still drop indiscriminately. Is there any American 
who has not been shaken at the mere thought of the horror of U.S. war 
planes bombing a wedding celebration in the village of Kakrak killing 
dozens of civilians? Whatever moral authority our Nation has had at the 
beginning of the conflict is rapidly being lost. This act does not 
represent America. Democracy does not wed terror. This act must not be 
cloaked in the irresponsible and inhuman euphemism of ``collateral 
damage.'' Stop the bombing. Let an international police force continue 
in Afghanistan. Let the humble people of Afghanistan be spared friendly 
fire issued from the skies. Enough of the bombing of villages to save 
the villages. Stop the bombing.

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