Another Democrat shows their patriotism? What do you think?

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Kucinich protests Army training school By HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writer
Sun Nov 18, 4:53 PM ET



COLUMBUS, Ga. - Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich said Sunday the thinking that went into producing an Army school blamed for human rights abuses in Latin America was the same that led the U.S. to war in Iraq and could cause it to raid Iran.

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Kucinich was speaking at the 18th annual protest of the school at Fort Benning that trains Latin American soldiers, police and government officials. One of his first acts as president if elected would be to close the school, he said.

"The type of thinking that produced this school is the same type of thinking that produced the war in Iraq and is producing a war against Iran," Kucinich said. The Ohio congressman and former Cleveland mayor was addressing a crowd estimated by local police to number roughly 10,000.

The Army's School of the Americas moved to Fort Benning from Panama in 1984 and was replaced in 2001 by the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, under the Defense Department.

The protests outside the gate to the military installation are timed to commemorate six Jesuit priests who were killed along with their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador on Nov. 19, 1989. Some of those who killed them had attended the School of the Americas.

The military has acknowledged that some graduates committed crimes after attending the School of the Americas, but has said in the past that no cause-and-effect relationship has ever been established.

The new Western Hemisphere Institute has mandatory human rights courses, but the demonstrators contend changes at the school are only cosmetic.

Fort Benning spokeswoman Monica Manganaro said the protesters are "spectacularly misinformed."

She said the school teaches the same courses taught to American soldiers. The only difference is the school in question serves mostly people from Latin America and, as a result, the courses are in Spanish, she said.

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On the Net:

Western Hemisphere Institute: https://www.infantry.army.mil/whinsec/

This guy wants to be the commander in chief and he is protesting the US Army.

What do you think about his Anti American an military actions, that is the question.

Ah so Captain your calling a vet of both OEF, and OIF anti American. Dont look now but your anti American and and Military views are plain for all to see.

Answer 1

He is a communist. And he doesn't stand a chance,

Answer 2

No, he is protesting a school housed in america that teaches and trains Latin America's army, which is not the US Army. Further, if you read up about the school, you will know that they habitually withhold information from the public and refuse access under penalty of arrest....so it impossible to know whom we are training or what we are training.....which, as he points out, is why we are in this mess in the first place....not because of this school, but because of our lack of credible information, secretive practices, and unprovoked militaristic behavior. The School of the Americas is protested by a variety of groups....thus, a frenge Democrat seeking more truth in politics would not be an uncommon sight.

Answer 3

Do the Republicans extremely imagine that they could blame the Democrats for this. Your spin received't help. that is gonna be determined interior the polls in virtually a month. The Republicans in Congress have not in difficulty-free words surpassed Obama the Presidency...they have decrease their own throats. that is what occurs once you base your politics on magic and thoughts really than good judgment and difficulty-free experience.

Answer 4

Your blind, false patriotism is very misguided...
Not everyone who criticizes the military is an enemy of the United States...
That would make us no different from the Nazi's...

Thank you for the information though... I may have to look into voting for Kucinich after all...

Answer 5

That schmuck continues to get elected by the naive in my

district. Even democrats are lining up to oppose him

because he is doing nothing for those he represents!

Answer 6

he is not protesting the army itself only one of its actions and as commander in chief this would directly affect him if elected soooo he is stating his position as he should.Would you prefer he keep it under his hat until after the election then spring it on you.I applaud him for being forthcoming with his thoughts on these type of things and hope you see it allows everyone the chance to make informed decisions come election time

Answer 7

He's protesting the old U.S. policy of recruiting Princes and sons of foreign dictators to come here to train how to become the next pro western dictator in their native countries. Manuel Noriega and Shah Reza Pahlavi are examples of foreign elite young men groomed here to rule abroad, both regimes ending in disaster. Training their right wing death squads isn't wise, either.

Answer 8

if you believe the School of the Americas has ANYTHING to with the ideals that made this nation great, you are CERTAINLY no patriot and are in fact as anti-American as people get

Answer 9

considering cut and run
unilateral surrender
and tax and spend
there are no democrat patriots. and kucinich has no chance so whats the point here?

Answer 10

you traitors that support bush hate Freedom of Speech.

Answer 11

Good for Kunich - holding America accountable for what Bush only pays lip service to.