[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16656]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            WAKE UP, AMERICA

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I spoke yesterday with a very well-known 
Cleveland talk show host, Mike Trivisonno, who told me he and his 
listeners, who are many, are concerned that an al Qaeda flag is flying 
over the courthouse in Benghazi, Libya. It was put there by the same 
group that we helped to oust the Qadhafi regime.
  Trivisonno is right. U.S. soldiers died fighting al Qaeda in 
Afghanistan, but in Libya we enabled al Qaeda to raise their flag? Will 
al Qaeda now have access to Libya's oil wealth thanks to the U.S.-led 
invasion?
  Months ago I raised this question about elements of al Qaeda 
reportedly being involved with so-called rebels. This administration 
looked the other way. Why? What are we doing?
  Our international policies are a diversion from our disastrous 
domestic policies: 14 million unemployed, millions of small businesses 
at risk, millions of homes at risk, Social Security at risk.
  Wake up, America. The administration just helped elements of al Qaeda 
knock off one of the world's leading oil producers. Their flag flies 
over Benghazi. It's time for us to get out of these foreign adventures 
and start taking care of things here at home.

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