Kucinich says Bush should be held accountable for Iraq

Just minutes after the House rejected his resolution calling for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said President Bush and his key cabinet members should be held accountable for waging an unjustified war in Iraq.

"I'm going to say something on this floor that seldom gets discussed here, and that is that I sincerely believe that President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld and others should be held accountable under international law for waging a war against people who had no quarrel with the United States of America at all," Kucinich said. "There has to be international laws that have to be followed by U.S. officials, and in fact there are."

Kucinich's Afghanistan resolution attracted 93 House supporters Thursday afternoon, including eight Republicans. He spoke immediately after the vote to mark March 20, which is the eighth anniversary of the start of the U.S. war against Iraq.

Kucinich criticized former Vice President Dick Cheney in particular for expressing the certainty that Iraq had or was developing biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.

"The picture that was painted to the American people, before the Congress at that time, was that we had no choice but to get ready to attack Iraq," he said. "And yet, we knew back then that there was no credible evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction."