Dennis Kucinich is campaining for the Democratic nomination for president, and he took a ridiculous stance the other day to garner some attention [by the way, it worked, as seen here on this blog and the news coverage].
He refused to vote in favor of a symbolic House resolution to honor the victims of September 11th because "the Bush Administration launched a war against Iraq, conflating the true tragedy of September 11 with lies about weapons of mass destruction." [his words]. He was the only one of the 400 plus Representatives in attendance who voted against it.
This is a reprehensible, purely political act on his part. He should be ashamed of himself. There's a time and a place for this type of political discourse and debate, and this was neither the time nor the place.
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I hear what you're saying and agree that Kucinich is politicizing an act of rememberance. But I'm more offended that we are fighting a war based on a trumped up (I believe made up) conncetion to the terrorists that perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. My point is this: politicians use national tragedies to push their agendas all the time. We should hold them all accountable.
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