Bush's Tin Drum

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
-Henry David Thoreau

If Thoreau is right, when you consider that as George Bush and his Administration smack that war drum, louder and louder, and our Democratic "frontunners" hawk, "all options are on the table", you start to wonder if maybe these candidates are just marching along with Bush's mad beat-right into Iran. Thankfully, we have Dennis Kucinich.

The latest Bush war-thumping this past week had Bush barking in his characteristically misleading and outrageuos rhetoric:

"I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously. I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have (sic) the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

Kucinich though, hearing a different drummer (call it reason, call it security, call it evidence), responded by saying that:

by raising the specter of a possible World War III predicated on Iran's nuclear energy ambitions, "the White House rodeo cowboy has gone dangerously too far and precipitously too close to igniting the war he claims to be trying to avoid."

"You can worry about the apocalypse, or, you can ensure it by manipulating intelligence and, with pre-meditation, put your finger on the trigger that will make Iran the next deadly domino in the President's irresponsible and irrational approach to the complex and sensitive political issues that make the region a more volatile tinder box than ever before."

"If the President continues policies that fuel the extremists in Iraq because of our continued occupation, and if he continues rallying support in Congress for possible aggression against Iran, he is purposely fulfilling his own prophesy and sentencing this nation and its brave sons and daughters to a war that never ends and a newer, bigger war that will be even more horrific."

As the only candidate to provide leadership in opposing the Iraq invasion and occupation consistently, as well as the only candidate to provide leadership against aggressive actions in Iran, Kucinich definitely has not been marching behind Bush and these democratic "frontrunners".

In fact, he has been the only candidate leading on what may turn out to be our only way to avoid another war in Iran: Removing the Drummer!

The invasion and occupation of Iraq, Kucinich said, "provide overwhelming evidence that the President and his cohorts in the administration and in the Congress deceived the American people, lied to them, and violated their Constitutional oaths of office."

"Using that wholly fraudulent proposition to springboard to an attack on Iran is not only constitutionally impeachable, it is patently criminal under the laws of this nation"

And this country needs to start marching to the beat of a different drummer. This country needs to start marching with Dennis Kucinich!