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why the in the dunny states and russia are key to this because we have ninety percent of the nuclear weapons on the earth and we cannot go the two of us the russians and the americans cannot go to china or to india or pakistan or any other nuclear power france great britain and say reduce your nuclear arsenals until we've done our jobs so it all begins with the bilateral negotiations between the united states and russia. if we are serious about dramatic reductions in these nuclear arsenals then we widen the club and bring in all the nuclear powers and. ideal the at least north korea and even iran for that matter and say enough we're all we're going to get rid of all these it does seem like a. kind of ideal dream but it is a goal to reach war thank you very much very powerful thank you.
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and welcome back you're watching our t.v. direct from the heart of moscow and let's get a look at your headlines right now parliamentary elections in afghanistan have been marred by deadly blasts and reports of voting violations the polls are being seen by many as a crucial test of the afghan government's ability to ensure stability and fight corruption. one of russia's most wanted men awaits a court decision on his extradition from poland terror suspect is a coyote who was detained in warsaw on friday but later released. and on the campaign trail for the u.s. midterm elections conservatives call for family values to be made a political priority this comes as the country focuses on the ailing economy after census figures revealed a growing poverty rate. that's a look at your headlines my colleague will be in about thirty minutes with a full look of your news right now our special report takes
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a look at what happens when soldiers follow their conscience and not their orders. that noyce can you hear it. it's coming from the earth it's the sound of despair despair and. north and south millions of men children living in appalling conditions in extreme poverty extreme violence extreme exploitation. orphans of the technological age. at the table of the rich and
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powerful. their stories some are shocking. but in their own right. extreme. as extreme as the compulsion for soldiers to disobey orders against their convictions and values. this is the story of three soldiers in three countries and three areas each was compelled to break his pledge of obedience. was. i know i know i'm not good at i. doubt
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either that i did i did that i did that i've. got i've got. that i brought my buddy. in the army we were supposed to submit willingly to our superiors orders. i observe their rule my entire life until that infamous uptime eleven is see i knew that blood was being spilled in the streets on it. but corpses were floating in the river. is it. crimes for being committed. which. i could no longer be a member of an army that was responsible for these injustices sickles you can let it but then if you'd like to hit it till. eight this is the shit.
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show whenever i deal becomes a nightmare. show and your good lord turns into satan to full fitness the thousand and day turns into night shift selfishly like that. i. you have the obligation to refuse it but when it's when you no longer believe in what you are doing and you can no longer stand up for your actions you must refuse.
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if you don't have a good reason to go to war. if you don't have a purpose if you don't feel that you're doing something noble. if you don't believe deep within yourself that you fighting for freedom if you don't believe deep within yourself that you're fighting for democracy. if you don't believe that you're fighting. to make the world a safer place and you're left without a purpose you're nothing but my mercenary. nice why is that not to go back to my unit in iraq because i completely disagree i think this works the more on criminal and i don't want to be
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when you're a soldier. basically what makes you a soldier in legal terms is the fact that you signed. answer one once you steve sign a contract you are. supposed to do everything they tell you to do you're supposed to follow orders. when there is a war. and they give you your you give me your orders. it's very hard to see a human being to accept that because you're not really taking part of in the process of. deciding whether that war is legal or it's illegal or if it's moral or immoral.
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but such believe such moral view. has absolutely nothing to do with what you have to do as a soldier you have to follow your orders. and that's that is one of the most frustrating things among being a soldier and that you have no say. at the new academy when though and after fifteen days in the states i was supposed
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to go back to iraq. better nor would better the decision not to report to you know military commander. was not easy to make it was very hard on them i'm risking a larger starting with my freedom i'm exposing myself to humiliation. i mean risking my immigrant status in this country that's huge because i have a daughter who lives here. in. all of this has turned my life upside down for example i had to leave my home i stopped using my credit cards and my cell phone on me i couldn't see my daughter for fear of being arrested that i had to live with friends or relatives and that i contacted lawyers my whole life changed when i was in free anymore i couldn't go back to college or get a job all this caused
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a lot of emotional turmoil in my life. within and. as a practitioner of military law over the last twenty six years i've returned many people to military control and it is never easy for someone to go bad it's never easy it takes great courage for camilla to do what he is doing today because he does not know what he faces upon his return to military authority thank. god. thank you thank you thank you thank you. i did not prepare a statement because what i have to say i have to say from the heart and it's a very simple message and a message and it simply says that i'm saying no to war. we're dying
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there iraqis are being killed every day and then here people are you know reading us about janet jackson's breast or the super bowl or whatever when there is a war going on right now and there are people dying and people lose perspective very easily and hurts me deep inside because i'm a soldier and i saw the software firsthand and i'm making this stand right here not as. to prove that i'm right or anything like that but because of the soldiers in iraq who disagree with this war but don't have the strength to come forward so i'm doing it for them i'm not trying to my back my comrades i have this i'm not going to be a part of that war but i'm going back to the military today i have really no idea what's going to happen but whatever happens if they try to say that i'm a criminal and they gave me many years in jail. i know that that i made the right decision in the god has forgiven me already thank you. the military now once he returns to military control has the discretion to decide
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what to do with him they can choose the administrative route that is processing his claim for conscience objection or they could choose a judicial route to resolve this matter if they were to choose the judicial route then there is the strong possibility that he would face trial by court martial. after this press conference what we intend to do is to take a bus and we intend to travel about thirty minutes from here to hanscom air force base while we arrive at the front gate we don't know wirral take him there are many unknowns. i was born in nicaragua into
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a political family my mother worked for the government. my father. saying. when i was eighteen years old. i have no ties anywhere and that i know we're not going to i felt like a stranger everywhere i went. so when i came here to this country. i figured i should try to fit into north american society. the heart of this country. for me was a way of becoming a member of a fraternity. from
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that's how i became a volunteer paratrooper. i had been accepted at the military school. man on earth with my cadets uniform. at the end of the first year. and two years later graduated from the. well the rank of artillery officer. i was successful as a soldier i did my job and i was promoted i received several medals. and marks of recognition things were going very well. in the military i was proud to be
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an infantry soldier because the infantry supposed to be the toughest job in the army the most dangerous job. but. i find those deeply moving but we're still a child. as i listen to the military band and watch the troops march by i mean i relive some of the happiest moments in my life. when i was an officer of the army the army prior to september eleventh. and the deaths of thousands of people civilians the terrorist attacks that's not
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something you can forget. very sad when it all happened. at the time that my national guard unit would be mobilized and we would be sent into the field to fight or to carry out a real mission. since there had been so many victims it seems to me that if the situation was handled properly if there was a thorough investigation identify the people responsible for the attacks then a mission to find. bring them to justice and all of this a good cause. you know at the time i still thought that being in the army and serving you know. could be done for valid reasons and could produce good results i want.
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well defined mission. we stayed to add one baghdad international airport for four or five days. then we went to an iraqi air force base occupied by the u.s. army. and. we started talking to many they told us they approved of the invasion. and they were happy to be free from the oppression of saddam hussein. the same time they wanted to read again back control of their country. and extended occupation. real confrontation happened at the town hall and. that's where we had our first combat experience and there was
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a demonstration in support of that and against george bush when. george. first there was no violence the demonstrators were shouting their slogans nothing more than seeing. after forty five minutes of protest. they started throwing grenades and it all became very violent. and the my unit was ordered to take defensive positions on the roof of the town hall. we were told to open fire if anyone threw grenades at us. the. one point silence of complete silence all of the demonstrators about two hundred people started moving from one place to the other. one corner we saw
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a young man coming towards us he was holding something in his hand. through the telescope. specifically ordered to shoot to kill if anyone threw something. that young man was holding something and he threw it at us. it was a grenade and we all fired. he. was the first time in my life the target wasn't made of plastic. it wasn't a picture it was a human being. human being. and by the way he couldn't possibly reach us because he was much too far. and.
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the. i shot him too and he was killed by our bullets he started bleeding demonstrators drank through his own blood. for the first time i saw what bullets from a rifle from. two human body. when those bullets pierced through human flesh and you see blood and death. and you realize what. my. training was for. i had never seen firsthand a human being killed by bullets and it was really hard for me that it's something i haven't been able to forget and i will never forget. the first time. tell me about it
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one of us was always keeping watch. the switch every fifteen minutes. all of a sudden i heard the sound of gravel rolling down. the. three fighters climbing towards us. whether it was very quietly very slowly only. i thought if i wake up the others there will be may have. to shoot or not to shoot to be or not to be. believed i had no other choice but to open fire. i only had two seconds to shoot three men. among suddenly it's not an exercise any more look at the it's real.
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track to the bullet inside and hit the guy right here. i saw his face explode. with but the thick illicitly shoe i just sadly time to see the second guy he had turned to look at his buddy who's had it been blown away i shot and killed him too . the third one looked toward me to see where the shots were coming from. with the less that he saw me and he raised his collision a cough but it only took me half a second to shoot him down. have come i got up and went over to the scene. and just stood there. looking down at the bodies.
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