NYT "Disappears" Dennis Kucinich
Monday, August 13, 2007
Dennis Kucinich: Desapparacido!by Dave Lindorff
Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has been
“disappeared.”
Not in the sense of victims of America’s so-called War on Terror.
He hasn’t been carted off in an orange jumpsuit to some black site in
Kazakhstan. But he has been “disappeared” by the reporters and editors
of the New York Times.
In an article
by Jeff Zeleny and Mark Santora on Sunday headlined “Democrats Say
Leaving Iraq May Take Years,” the Times
reports that Democratic candidates, with only candidate Bill Richardson
“standing apart,” are saying that troops will have to stay in Iraq and
the area around Iraq for a long time.
But wait. Kucinich, who in many polls does as well as, or better
than
Biden and Richardson (in a new straw poll of Democratic activists in
California, he ranked right behind Edwards and Obama, and ahead of
Clinton and the rest of the crowd), not only wants the U.S. out of
Iraq; he has submitted an actual bill in Congress (HR 1234) calling for
a removal of all US troops within three months’ time, and barring the
expenditure of any funds on future military activity in the region
except for the purpose of orderly withdrawal.
So why was Kucinich left out of the Times article on Democratic
candidates’ positions on the Iraq War?
The answer seems clear.
The Times has decided that Kucinich isn’t a candidate. He doesn’t
exist.
He has been disappeared.
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