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Remarks of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
February 26, 2006

"Mr. Speaker.....This administration is being investigated on how we got into the first war, and now they want us to go to a second war, to open another front on this war. It is about time that we say no more war. No more war, Mr. Bush.

I also want to, as I remember the gentleman in my district who is over 40 years of age who has been told that he has got to report for duty in Iraq, remember Kevin Benderman, whose wife frantically contacted my office asking for help for her husband. Kevin Benderman went to Iraq one time. He was asked to do things that he thought as a human being went against his conscience.

We know that collateral damage is not just a number: 100,000; 200,000. It is people. It is little boys and little girls. It is women. Kevin Benderman said, I am not going to kill innocent people. Don't ask me to do that. I have done it once. Once is too much.

He decided that he would apply for conscientious objector status. Well, Kevin Benderman is in the brig because he did not want to kill innocent little girls and little boys and women and men in Iraq. He is in the brig."

Source: Congressional Record
(Once on Congressional Record home page, search for "Cynthia McKinney" Benderman)

 

 

Kevin and Monica
Kevin and Monica Benderman
(Photo Credit: Lewis M. Levine, distributed by www.bendermandefense.org)

Three Direct Ways You Can Support
Kevin Benderman

1.  Express your support to Kevin and Monica. If you want your letter entered into the Congressional Record by Kevin and Monica's Congressional Representative, Cynthia McKinney, click here. If you just want to write Kevin and Monica privately, click here.

2.  Email Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, asking what purpose is served by court-martialing Kevin Benderman (click here to go the Department of Defense Comments website and then click on the "Ask a Question / Make a Comment" tab).

3.  To make a donation to help cover Kevin's legal defense costs, click on the button below.

Donations by check or money order should be made out to "Kevin Benderman Trust," and sent to the Benderman Defense Trust, at P.O. Box 1122, Knoxville, Tennessee 37901 USA.

For more information on the Benderman Defense Trust, click on the link below:

Benderman Defense Trust