[THS] !!! Kucinich: Truth, Human Dignity and the Goldstone Report

[Peter Webster]

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Truth, Human Dignity and the Goldstone Report

By Congressman Dennis Kucinich

November 05, 2009 "ICH" Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today (November
04, 2009) made the following statement on the House Floor about H. Res 867, which
condemns the ‘Goldstone Report’ or the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding
Mission on the Gaza Conflict:

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“Today we journey from Operation Cast Lead to Operation Cast Doubt. Almost as
serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war
crimes were never committed and did not exist.

“Because behind every such deception is the nullification of humanity, the destruction
of human dignity, the annihilation of the human spirit, the triumph of Orwellian
thinking, the eternal prison of the dark heart of the totalitarian.

“The resolution before us today, which would reject all attempts of the Goldstone
Report to fix responsibility of all parties to war crimes, including both Hamas and
Israel, may as well be called the “Down is Up, Night is Day, Wrong is Right”
resolution.

“Because if this Congress votes to condemn a report it has not read, concerning
events it has totally ignored, about violations of law of which it is unaware, it will have
brought shame to this great institution.

“How can we ever expect there to be peace in the Middle East if we tacitly approve
of violations of international law and international human rights, if we look the other
way, or if we close our eyes to the heartbreak of people on both sides by white-
washing a legitimate investigation?

“How can we protect the people of Israel from existential threats if we hold no
concern for the protection of the Palestinians, for their physical security, their right to
land, their right to their own homes, their right to water, their right to sustenance,
their right to freedom of movement, their right to the human security of jobs,
education and health care?

“We will have peace only when the plight of both Palestinians and Israelis is brought
before this House and given equal consideration in recognition of that principle that
all people on this planet have a right to survive and thrive, and it is our responsibility,
our duty to see that no individual, no group, no people are barred from this humble
human claim.”

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FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 838
(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)

      H RES 867      2/3 YEA-AND-NAY      3-Nov-2009      5:41 PM
      QUESTION:  On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, as Amended
      BILL TITLE: Calling on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose
unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the “Report of the United
Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict” in multilateral fora


  		Yeas 	Nays 	PRES 	NV
Democratic 	179 	33 	20 	23
Republican 	165 	3 	2 	7
Independent
TOTALS 	344 	36 	22 	30



---- YEAS    344 ---


Aderholt
Adler (NJ)
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Austria
Baca
Bachus
Barrow
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bean
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boccieri
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boren
Boswell
Boyd
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Bright
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Cao
Capito
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carter
Cassidy
Castle
Castor (FL)
Chaffetz
Chandler
Childers
Chu
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Cole
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Dreier
Driehaus
Edwards (TX)
Ehlers
Ellsworth
Emerson
Engel
Etheridge
Fallin
Fattah
Flake
Fleming
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gonzalez
  	Goodlatte
Granger
Graves
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Guthrie
Hall (TX)
Halvorson
Hare
Harman
Harper
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinojosa
Hodes
Hoekstra
Holden
Hoyer
Hunter
Inglis
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan (OH)
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilroy
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Kissell
Klein (FL)
Kline (MN)
Kosmas
Kratovil
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee (NY)
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Maffei
Maloney
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey (CO)
Markey (MA)
Marshall
Massa
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McClintock
McCotter
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McMahon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meek (FL)
Melancon
Mica
Michaud
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Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Minnick
Mitchell
Mollohan
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Moore (WI)
Moran (KS)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (NY)
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Myrick
  	Nadler (NY)
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Neugebauer
Nye
Oberstar
Olson
Ortiz
Paulsen
Pence
Perlmutter
Perriello
Peters
Peterson
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Polis (CO)
Pomeroy
Posey
Putnam
Quigley
Radanovich
Rangel
Rehberg
Reichert
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Roe (TN)
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Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Salazar
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schauer
Schiff
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Space
Spratt
Stearns
Sullivan
Sutton
Tanner
Taylor
Teague
Terry
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Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Titus
Tonko
Tsongas
Turner
Upton
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Walden
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
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Waxman
Weiner
Westmoreland
Wexler
Whitfield
Wilson (OH)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (FL)



---- NAYS    36 ---


Baird
Baldwin
Blumenauer
Boustany
Capps
Carson (IN)
Clarke
Clay
Davis (KY)
Dingell
Doggett
Edwards (MD)
  	Ellison
Filner
Grijalva
Hinchey
Johnson, E. B.
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kucinich
Lee (CA)
Lynch
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
  	Miller, George
Moran (VA)
Olver
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Price (NC)
Rahall
Snyder
Stark
Waters
Watt
Woolsey



---- ANSWERED “PRESENT”    22 ---


Becerra
Cooper
Dahlkemper
DeFazio
Delahunt
Duncan
Eshoo
Farr
  	Heinrich
Hirono
Honda
Johnson (GA)
Jones
Kaptur
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
  	Luján
Obey
Speier
Tierney
Welch
Wu



---- NOT VOTING    30 ---


Abercrombie
Ackerman
Bachmann
Barrett (SC)
Boucher
Brady (PA)
Capuano
Conyers
Davis (AL)
Davis (TN)
  	Deal (GA)
Gordon (TN)
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Holt
Meeks (NY)
Murphy, Patrick
Nunes
Pallone
Pascrell
  	Payne
Pingree (ME)
Price (GA)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sires
Souder
Stupak
Towns
Velázquez
Wamp