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His platform for 2008 includes:
- Creating a single-payer system of universal health care that provides full coverage for all Americans.
- The immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq and replacing them with an international security force.
- Guaranteed quality education for all, including free pre-kindergarten and college for all who want it.
- Immediate withdrawal from the WTO ( World Trade Organization )and NAFTA ( North America Free Trade Agreement).
- Repealing the USA PATRIOT Act.
- Fostering a world of international cooperation.
- Abolishing the death penalty.
- Environmental renewal and clean energy.
- Preventing the privatization of social security.
- Providing full social security benefits at age 65.
- Creating a cabinet-level "Department of Peace"
- Ratifying the ABM Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol.
- Introducing reforms to bring about instant-runoff voting.
- Protecting a woman's right to choose while decreasing the number of abortions performed in the U.S.
- Ending the war on drugs.
- Legalizing same-sex marriage.
- Creating a balance between workers and corporations.
- Restoring rural communities and family farms.
On January 8, 2007 Dennis Kucinich unveiled his comprehensive exit plan to bring the troops home and stabilize Iraq. [6] The Plan includes the following steps:
1) The U.S. announces it will end the occupation, close the military bases, and withdraw.
2) The U.S. announces that it will use existing funds to bring the troops home and the necessary equipment home.
3) We will order a simultaneous return of all U.S. contractors tothe United States and turn over the contracting work to the Iraqigovernment.
4) We'll convene a regional conference for the purpose of developing a security and stabilization force for Iraq.
5) Prepare an international security peacekeeping force to move in, replacing U.S. troops, who then return home.
6) Develop and fund a process of national reconciliation.
7) We have to once again restart the programs for reconstructions and jobs for the Iraqi people.
8) Reparations for the damage that's been done to the lives of Iraqis.
9) Assuring the political sovereignty of Iraq and making sure that their oil isn't stolen.
10) Repairing the Iraqi economy.
11) Economic sovereignty for Iraq. And,
12) An international truth and reconciliation process, whichestablishes a policy of truth and reconciliation between the people ofthe United States and Iraq.