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well weeks ago and i understand sales spiked enormously based on that program so it's an excellent book but that's all the time for we have today james our council thanks for being on the kaiser reports pleasure all right that's going to for this edition of the kaiser report i want to thank stacy herbert and of course my guest james howard kunstler you want to send me an e-mail please do so have kaiser reported r t t v dot ru until next time this is max kaiser saying bio. sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched a street fight. from a colonel of the chilean armed forces participated in keeping down a military revolt.
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sergeant in the us army. trying to become an american by getting pardon me. franks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once made is a big. enough backyard and did we not. much to crop up and then spread all over the country. virtually all terrorists today are muslim do we have the right to make such provocative statements then do muslim schools have the right to exist. in new york city. in india ots available to him. the movie goer to enjoy being who
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chose to be on the villains the gateway to the grand imperial truly the tall western coast girl until you can go with her toe to toe see don't need to go all clear read this in the candle was her job as a treat. told stories in europe the following policies on defied the latest spike and arrests over suspected terror plots triggers accuse ations that once tracks provide terrorists with the boss trying to take on. we to white town heidi snow falls on strong winds holds new power plants in the monster region as emergency teams walk around the clock trying to restore electricity to thousands. balance out of regime break outs with a botched while multiple american marriages end in divorce we'll tell you what the celebration of freedom can define and even prosperous. up next the stories of soldiers and officers who choose courses over all of the orders on the price they
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paid for that decision in the first part of our special report. that noyce can you hear it. it's coming from the earth it's the sound of despair despair and. noise sent south millions of men women and children living in appalling conditions in extreme poverty extreme violence extreme exploitation. orphans of the technological age. at the
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table of the rich and powerful. some are shocking others. but in their own right. extreme. as extreme as the compulsion for soldiers to disobey orders against their convictions. this is the story of three soldiers in three countries and three areas each was compelled to break his pledge of allegiance. i. was. i thought. i'm not good to have such i doubt
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either that i did that i that i've. got i've got. that i bought my buddy. in the army we were supposed to submit willingly to our superiors order. i observe the rule of my entire life until that infamous september eleventh is see i knew that blood was being spilled in the streets. that corpses were floating in the river. if it. rhymes 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 yes it could be she's.
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showing whenever i deal comes a nightmare. shine your good lord turns into satan to full fitness a thon and day turns into night shift selfishly like that. i. you have the obligation to refuse to use the word but when it's when you no longer believe in what you are doing that woman 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. and that's why it's sad not to go back to my unit in iraq because i completely disagree with in this work some more on criminal and i don't want to be a part of it. but
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when you're a soldier. basically what makes you a soldier in legal terms is the fact that you signed. one once you see if 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 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 views. 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 though and after fifteen days in the states i was supposed to go
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back to iraq. better nor would better the decision not to report to you no military commander no phone i hear them it was not easy to make it was very hard and them i'm risking a longer 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 and i. stop with 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 wasn't free anymore i couldn't go back to college and get a job all this caused
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a lot of emotional turmoil in my life. and within that area. as a practitioner of military law over the last twenty six years i return 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 forums thank you 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 in 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 suffering 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 decided 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 give 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 conscientious objection or they could choose a judicial route to resolve this matter if they were to choose the judicial route then there is that 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 in the revolution. when i was eighteen years old. i have no ties anywhere and that i don't want to know them 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. of becoming a member of a fraternity. he
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had clearly defined political views. anyone who comes to another country. especially in this country which is the jewish . supposed to be a place for everyone. israeli society. everyone else. everything.
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from the. best. military school. uniform. at the end of the first year. 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 is supposed to be the toughest job in the army the most dangerous job. but. i find those deeply moving but while we're still a child. as i listen to the military 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. 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. 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. there had been so many. 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 for all of this a good cause. you know at the time i still thought that being in the army and serving you know we could be done for valid reasons and could produce good results you know the employee i want.
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to. write the voted. off on the military installation. good. move it back it was a good. move it back but in fact backwards.
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back. let. me. get.
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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 want to regain control of their country. an extended occupation. real confrontation happened at the town hall and. that's where we had our first combat experience. there was
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a demonstration in support of and against george bush when. there was no violence the demonstrators were shouting their slogans nothing more than seen. after forty five minutes of protest. 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. been 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 at him. he. was the first time in my life that the target wasn't made of plastic. it wasn't a picture it was a human being. a living breathing human being. and the thing that young man 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 way through his own blood. for the first time i saw what bullets from a rifle from can do to someone to a human body. when those bullets pierce through human flesh and you see blood and death. you realize what. it was for. i had never seen first hand 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 that i will never forget. yes yes yes i remember the first time. me
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about it you know. why. it was. shows three. or four in the morning three. there were five of us of them lying in ambush. flat on the ground.
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one of us was always keeping watch. because we would always switch every fifteen minutes of. all of a sudden i heard the sound of gravel rolling down. the from the van i saw three fighters climbing towards us. very quietly very slowly only. i thought if i wake up the others there will be me. to shoot or not to shoot to be or not to be. i had no other choice but to open fire. i only had two seconds to shoot three men. suddenly it's not an exercise anymore it's for real.
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track to the bullet inside and hit the guy right here. i saw as face explode. with. the thick illicitly shoe i just sadly time to see the second guy he had turned to look at his buddy who's headed been blown away i shot and killed him to. the third one who 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. i got up and went over to see. i just stood there. looking down at the bodies.
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for fifteen minutes. maybe longer she's maybe fifty years. all of the ideals i had when i was eighteen or nineteen. all of the good things the beautiful things my dreams. they all started falling apart. i was just an empty shell. with a uniform and a gun. very strong very courageous. but empty. i don't know if he's human being of sane mind gets used to killing. me. i never got used to killing.

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