Three years after his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Rep. Dennis Kucinich is back, billing himself as the candidate with "no strings attached." In the 2008 campaign, Kucinich, who was known largely as an antiwar protest candidate four years ago, may be closer to the mainstream than in 2004.

The five-term congressman from Ohio is the only Democratic candidate who was in Congress in 2002 and voted against authorizing military action against Iraq. In January 2007, he criticized the troop increase in Baghdad, saying it would mean "more anger toward the U.S., more support for the insurgency, more instability in Iraq and in the region, and prolonged civil war at a time when there is a general agreement in the world community that the solution in Iraq must be political not military."

Kucinich has sponsored a bill to withdraw funding for the war in Iraq and bring U.S. troops home immediately.

On domestic issues, Kucinich has been a long-term supporter of universal health care, clean energy and tougher environmental protection. He also has advocated for organized labor and protection of American jobs, supporting a U.S. withdraw from both the North American Free Trade Agreement and World Trade Organization.

Before being elected to the House, Kucinich served as an Ohio state senator from 1994 to 1996 and as mayor of Cleveland in the 1970s.

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