For Regime Change in YugoslaviaCongressman Dennis Kucinich, a great friend and supporter, urging all present to promote a change in regime, condemned the chaos that Slobodan Milosevic has created in recent years. Furthermore, he openly discussed the need for rebuilding the infrastructure of Serbia, destroyed by the NATO bombing campaign, citing that the campaign was “not effective against the Yugoslav military, but horribly effective against civilians.” First Serbian American Leadership Conference Dennis Kucinich voted in October 1998 for the Iraq Liberation Act, a measure calling for regime change in Iraq. "It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime," according to the Iraq Liberation Act (Public Law 105-338). The Congress urged the President "to call upon the United Nations to establish an international criminal tribunal for the purpose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide, and other criminal violations of international law."
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Against Regime Change in Iraq"We must drop the self-defeating policy of regime change. Policies of aggression and assassination are not worthy of any nation with a democratic tradition, let alone a nation of people who love liberty and whose sons and daughters sacrifice to maintain that democracy. The question is not whether or not America has the military power to destroy Saddam Hussein and Iraq." Kucinich Draws the Line Against War, The Progressive October 29, 2002 |