A must-read article over at Truthdig. Dennis Kucinich criticizes the leadership of his own party for announcing Tuesday that it would support a massive increase in spending for the Iraq war.

From that interview:

Kucinich: “People first of all need to know about this. People need to know that there is an attempt by our leadership to support the supplemental, and what the consequences are…. The most difficult part of the challenge is to get members of Congress to understand that they themselves voted for a bill which went into effect on Oct. 1 that appropriated $70 billion, which could be used to bring the troops home. Unfortunately, our leadership is saying they-re supporting the supplemental as a way of supporting the troops. So if we continue to ignore the money that’s there right now to bring the troops home, we-re losing an opportunity to bring the troops home now. People are now saying that they oppose the war, but they-re continuing to fund it in the name of supporting the troops.
They say they-re not going to abandon the troops in the field. We-re professing a strange love for these troops by keeping them there, because the money’s there to bring them home. So this is going to shape up as a major discussion across this country. People are going to want to know why Democrats would not bring the troops home now, when the money is there now. ”

Full interview here

“It’s almost like the party has done a bait-and’switch.” -Truthdig

If this supplemental goes through, it will clearly be a bait-and’switch. We need a government OF the people, people!