KNOW YOUR CANIDATE! Too often is this popularity contest we know as elections thrown away. His platform for 2008 includes: His platform for 2008 includes: • Creating a single-payer system of universal health care that provides full coverage for all Americans by passage of the United States National Health Insurance Act. • The immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq; 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 World Trade Organization (WTO) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). • 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. • Ending the H1B and L1 Visa Programs • Restoring rural communities and family farms. • Strengthening gun control.