Just a sample:
Foreign policy
Israel and Palestine
Dennis Kucinich spoke in the House of Representatives opposing H. Res. 34 which would recognize Israel's right to defend itself as he claims the resolution was incomplete in examining the conflict. He said "The Israeli Army evacuated 100 Palestinians to a house, and then bombed the house, killing 30 people. They don't have bomb shelters in Gaza. Emergency workers have been blocked by the Israeli Army from reaching hundreds of injured persons. Today's Washington Post headline documents that. We all want peace, but we're not going to get peace until we recognize that there are two parties to this dispute and that we have to also review Israel's conduct as well. That path to peace has to begin with stopping the war, having a cease-fire, constructing a truce, ending the blockade, getting humanitarian assistance through to all the people, rebuilding the infrastructure of the Palestinians, rebuilding their economic possibilities, bringing Hamas and Israel together for talks, using that as the basis to the path for peace in the Middle East."[43]
Venezuela
Dennis Kucinich was the only member in the House of Representatives to condemn US interference in Venezuela's internal affairs in a letter signed by Jesse Jackson, Howard Zinn, Edward Asner, Saul Landau, Naomi Klein, Doug Henwood, and others. The letter also praising Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution said "The world knows that you are achieving something remarkable in Venezuela: you are investing your country’s vast oil wealth in ways that benefit everyone, not just small minority of well-connected elites. Over the last year your government’s literacy campaign taught one million Venezuelans to read. And today, millions of others are benefiting from the governments investment in job training, small businesses and health care...We are committed to doing what we can, as U.S. citizens, to heal those relationships and encourage Congress and the White House to see Venezuela not only as a model democracy but also as a model of how a country’s oil wealth can be used to benefit all of its people."[44]
Afghanistan
Kucinich voted in favor of going to war against Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, but has since been an opponent of the ongoing War in Afghanistan citing costs, corruption of the Karzai government, deaths of NATO troops, deaths of innocent Afghan civilians, and the fact that occupation is fueling insurgency as a reason for withdrawal of military forces. He has led the opposition against the war by demanding withdrawal under the War Powers Act. Kucinich has called Obama's classification of the War in Afghanistan as a just war a beginning of an Orwellian journey to a world where war is peace and also said "Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan are based on flawed doctrines of counter-insurgency. War is often not just; sometimes it is just war. And our ability to rethink the terms of our existence, to explore the possibility of peace without war, may well determine whether we end war, or war ends us."[45]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Dennis_Kucinich
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