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MR. BLITZER: Senator Gravel?
MR. GRAVEL: Yeah, well, I join him on the carbon tax. And, of course, that will raise the price of gasoline. Let's be candid about that.
There's nothing I would do as president to lower the price of gasoline right now. We Americans have to grow up. If we want to get off of the dependency in the Middle East, we have to own up to the problem. These things cost money. They're controlling our society.
And the sooner we stop fighting these wars -- here, stop and think. You only see $3. Just watch those wheels turn. There's another $4, which is what we spend to keep American troops around the world to keep the price.
So you're paying more than seven dollars a gallon; you just don't know it.
Anyone can check the link where these words are published to find what the crimnal frauds have to say while I cut and paste the honest parts out:
MR. VAUGHN: Jennie, what's your question for the candidates tonight?
Q My question is, what is your vision on ending major military operations, and how do you plan on rebuilding the military after such many years of conflict?
MR. BLITZER: All right, let me throw that question to Congressman Kucinich because he's been outspoken on a lot of these issues.
REP. KUCINICH: Thank you very much, Wolf.
First of all, thank you and your family for serving.
This country has to end its occupation of Iraq. And as I mentioned earlier, the Congress, the Democratic Congress, has a very serious responsibility in this regard.
We should simply not provide any bill at all. It's one thing to say you don't have the votes. It's another thing not to even offer a bill and tell the president he had some money now that's in the pipeline to bring the troops home.
And with respect to this war, this war has degraded our service ability. And we need to have, certainly, a strong Army, but I believe that peace is the way we reflect our strength. So I want to see an American military that will be a strong peacekeeping force, not one that is being misused, like the one in this administration, misused our military, and we need a commander in chief who wants to link peace with security and who wants to see America's role working with the world community in cooperation.
MR. BLITZER: But her question was specifically, what would you do to rebuild the military, which seems to be pretty stretched right now? What -- do you have a plan?
REP. KUCINICH: Well, the first thing we need to do is cut -- first of all, there's a couple different dimensions to this. One is, we need to cut military spending overall by about 25 percent. There's a lot of waste here we're talking about. Money hasn't been focused on the troops per se. This $97 billion that went for this war? This isn't going to the troops. A small fraction goes to the troops. So we need to have a strong military. We need to encourage people to be serving in our country's military, but we've got to end the United States' commitment to war as an instrument of diplomacy.
MR. BLITZER: All right. I'm going to bring everybody in, but Senator Obama, you want to increase the size of the U.S. military by almost 100,000 troops. That's going to cost billions and billions of dollars. What do you say to Congressman Kucinich, who says he wants to cut the size of the U.S. military?
If you are wondering where the money goes, then, do a Google search for Blackwater.
I can help:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Blackwater
http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary/dp/1560259795
You could do worse than read the book above.