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these are the top stories. be having to a new level. chief poised to progress on the issue of a missile the fan system in europe. germany agrees to supply the block's forces in libya was more munitions drawing criticism for deviating from its original position on intervention amid speculation it's been pressured by other and nato members. moved on the u.n. war crimes court for disrupting proceedings the former general is facing genocide charges but refused. the hearing. next one meets an army journalist a thousand kilometer walk to talk people out of war. oh sean
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love it barry you're something you can't have one without the other and that's the same way if you're going to support the troops you've got to support the war or if you don't support it need to keep your mouth shut about it yeah don't need it dowd just get be quiet if you can't. support it like it be quiet and a message from the president of the united states george w. bush good morning the generals are trying to divide americans break our will and we must not go in other just succeed we will defeat the jurors everywhere they may go straight in and we will leave a more hopeful world for our children and our grandchildren are going wrong a clear unchanging our goal is victory. veterans for peace a chance to win eighteen salt lake city and peace justice organization we basically . work with all soldiers and all veterans to bring about peace some of us all even
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actually march with him all the way today. and this one guy who has it down or protested he was is an army ranger. it started out pretty tense and actually if you guys got it right it's you know what this is a u.s. ranger man telling us it would seem to say look we're not. going to. go the country. but he can't walk that's too is credit so. you're not for reading and writing your morning systematic. yeah i think there's a middle ground and. then i think we agree on everything i've said here on everything up until the point of what will bring stability. and i believe that stability with yourself for. the small defense of its marshall himself yeah i have
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i have a lot in common with him i support a lot of his views but the people i had an opportunity to encounter in the protest bush like kids died michael moore you know fahrenheit nine eleven it's things like that they're completely to the left and jaded but more so i find him very you know very charming intelligent clean cut individual. no animosity for him you know and eventually yes i think if this were a perfect world we would be occupying iraq oh there was another counter protester bringing the total counter protesters to three and he was a young kid he had to hear to camouflage on but i don't think using the military those people demonstrating that shit their disgrace to our country nancy could serve for that stand they need to get out of here and go live with the tears for all i care. because i said. what are they doing to people to troops that are just going home where they don't know that they're saying you know what you guys what you're doing better when all we're doing out there is trying to go out there and
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make a difference trying to help trying to trying to make so we can live here trying to make so people don't come here and kill innocent people both buildings are trying to do. it still like there's a spin on the same you know what. i tell it. just this is. i'm not i've never actually thought about the subject before so i can say really have an opinion. or be neutral. when we do this mercan people we just go bad our business like nothing but. i am now i don't have an opinion because i don't. listen to the news so i don't know anything about iraqis except that we're over there yeah you know like it might be out there now after. combat. you can start a discussion or debate with someone that it doesn't serve to be very draining because you do this big protest you're sacrificing all this time and energy. to get
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other things with instead people might think they're really. think a lot of people they can actually like people. in the modern medicine coffee. in the car it back turned on the radio an attack outside of baghdad another choppers down by two a good man been in the center of the. evening news comes on the t.v. . two marines are killed planted i mean the big tax. code book full of money being. two marines are killed two families left to greet. many or die overseas. in
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a war let me start. with the brain and the brain just coming campaign. began to move a grade. where used to yank open a bit too great. big twelve you into the second week of walking. through. the wood from above and gone to get a return to. build a wall in. there for veterans for peace there. was even the korean war the only solar cookies from our moment my sister. will go wrong to the local it's all the rubble for you had earlier been all over so we go a bad business day by day. giving little through a wall and so far away from the clergy to his side from students to stand
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for kids become soldier mock proud. men and women to die first. to know all that was starting back. in the brain and the brain just coming. ways da mayor. mayor diaz in the rain. may be a way to raise. the walk might be over right there. i don't know. yesterday just the low level of the smirk so did the ultrasound today. or so hoping and praying that it would eliminate cancer of the sisters in. small corners.
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i knew he wanted to quit because he wanted to be a good dad and he wanted to be there but i also knew that this walk is why he was a good dad as he said well. he walk in we get a second and keep walking toward final four this coming got up the next day and was . thinking that maybe that would be the luster the good of the walk i was really happy that he could get out and he could keep walking even though he was scared to death and and devastated with the news. i was charged twelve felony counts for a possible total sense of one hundred fifteen years so with good behavior i'd be getting out of two thousand and eight. when i realized that the war was wrong and always get home which i realized when i read the earliest sections of the kind of
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the papers i then filtered what i could do was expose twenty three years of lies on the bridge of treaties and that it might help to solution people for war but started there with seven thousand top secret pagers they would have to use the full extent of the law against me and that there would be basically a life sentence. that's what nixon had in mind to put on i just thought it might help that i was ready to go to prison if it might help i told him again blacklisted for the rest of your life it will be on your record right. and. at that point he said well in that case then it will be that i'll be fitting and president before i ran out that i did not order my hands are illegal is just i just want to get people in the military in this cause think this was case law and have to evaluate what you're being told us to do. as the guardian wielder
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goes around and even the mattress we didn't think they were loaded with would be a loaded gun here on campus is it was a college joint right why would they have loaded guns to the guardsmen on the end of the line and decided to not fire in the direction everybody else was but to turn ninety degrees and pick me off while i was running for cover and the bullet hit me in the abdomen just below my belt and it knocked me through the ear into the ground like someone swinging a sledgehammer like a baseball bat and hitting you like a cartoon image were flew in the air and landed on the ground i was shot a second time by a guardsman who testified in court that he knew had already been shot once and when they asked him so why did you shoot him he said well everyone else was shooting him . did you really think you could happen again yes i think we're doing it and i think it's just waiting to happen because it's been a long time yet so they can pull this stunt again and i believe it was
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a stunt i believe this was planned to stop protesting and the more that protest in this current now the more i look for it to happen and today just scares ranko big. as my hero and his example really got me into all of this. i remember that he said once that there was a palpable turning point when public opinion really shifted against the war and it marked the beginning of the end of the vietnam war and he said that was kent state watched until we came to a national park and i could discuss a little bit more of the border and hugh miles but i really wanted to walk through zion national park the native americans who live there considered holy but it's. even the mormon manias when they came for the first explorers said surely this is god's first home this is a stake. in
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a used car i spent nearly every summer a minute. or so i couldn't walk you through for instance on. the. street with the. key to everything certainly a lot of people showed up. the other guy but he's still the bill if it was a good cancer or not but there was some reasonable doubt. or some reasonable hope that she'd her parents are. really sort of that. you could make a difference this was worth so i think i just like the idea of no more bombs no more screaming no more care no more deaths from like bombs in the nuclear warfare nuclear north for nuclear warfare my dad always gets me on that new clear. she seems good cook well she was much better than more chaotic start treaty.
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during the walk we kept getting e-mails from people that said you know i wish i could be there for i really care is there any is there anything i can do and sal and my sister in law got the idea that we have balloons there representing everybody that wanted to be there and. all over the world from europe from the middle east from australia from china but we've got hundreds and hundreds of names and so much support for setting out of the shoes for me just hears that real reality for me there's certainly a lot of emotion that goes through when you start reading names looking at names and beliefs and wonder in the story. why not sign up thank you so much for coming out. and who are so great for i wonder for paper and such accounts hotness. so great that the fate of the black family nothing. never ever
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ever ever see this kind of. a run never heard a woman close they will never have a grandchild accomplished they will never enjoy all of the great things start next year provided. for us to be here in a matter of the first day i said you know march kept repeating. the lesson that we wanted to be we had to be here and thank you for the privilege i'm lucky to get marshall for reminding us of our duty. as they neared the border i was excited i mean this is the slate in the film walk and did it. despite all the challenges. nobody believed the utah would
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support peace this much and it has sold all those people back in washington d.c. with all the hearts and warmongers know the utah supports peace. that the wonderful series. because they got caught up in the victories. right now because like a wonderful victory made a five hundred miles and it's thanks to all you into my family and all the wonderful people have helped me to dog walked almost every inch of it with me. i have never been prouder to be utah and then right now so wonderful thing. but it. was very much tempered by the sobering thought that the war was still going . anyone wearing a baseball cap or coming out to take it off and place it over your left shoulder if
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you want to is not mandatory and anyone who wants to salute you can slow keep the cap until taps is completely played and then you can put it back on any questions. thank you. joe down until buttons for peace walk to and comforted him but he couldn't for both of them if they didn't that show don't have a utah for us we're going to go california. today is veterans day and i would just like to thank. all of those that have served and all that are serving some of those the honor are represented by don'ts my group conference there. downtown my son came home this is a picture of him as he turned twenty one. it was his last birthday. today and i asked you all to help me carry my grief. because it's very hard to
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carry myself. and if we learn to grieve as a nation. i think that this will help and seal as a nation so one is the trans day. we honor on the family thank you. martin luther king said a time comes when silence is betrayal a time comes like the time we're in right now at this moment. when anything other then raise your voice opposition to this. is a betrayal of this country that we the so don't take me to one side says hey i want you to meet wrong kovac. and. i had no idea and also there's frank who pick right in front of me you just have this or someone who spent
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his life doing good things and i think there is no greater right here that could be part of the peace process right now involved in bringing him into this forest children's hospital dealing missed nation and committing ourselves to never allow what happened in the iraq war in vietnam to ever happen again i told him that i'd seen born in the fourth of july in iraq and it really made him happy to write you want to tell her to tell you remember that i knew i had a right so yeah that's a variation of that point it really felt like the whole interview come full circle . that you're sitting in iraq. and watching for the fourth of july about road proving. and see how he dealt with the ghosts of war but protesting that he just hit with such force of that's exactly what i needed
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to do. and so following his example. because it's only. so reasonable they drilled into him as a vietnam veteran who's been in this real care for almost fourteen years it's an honor to call you my family and my friend and someone it's. a good life you know on. thank you. i'm driving down right now to go turn in all my equipment and so i can get out of the army the army offered me a twenty thousand dollars reenlistment bonus in iraq so there's been one lump sum tax-free twenty thousand dollars after iraq and knew how my loyalties can be abused and so while i still feel that my service is honorable and still for other people service is honorable i. could not realist no matter how much money they offered me the shift in numbers that we've seen recently says that it ud be like the rest of
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the country are starting to grow tired of course starting to question the war and starting to question bush's leadership of the war and it happened especially almost coinciding with marshall's watch and i don't i don't know how many utahns marshall himself swayed to the other side it certainly wasn't just the walk but there were tons of other people doing things there's military families speak out in very active in salt lake there's rocky anderson and the norwalk is part of that so it feels really good. to see. the children. and. i have to call attention to that dark angel in their midst and you have to be prepared to accept the wrath of the governments force and as long as you're willing
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to do that and you do it but let me do everything you possibly can you give them your body you know and then you do it nonviolently you do it lovingly hell i even try to do it with a sense of humor you know it's no big deal searching. nothing's going to change until a guy's coming home and except the problem back as soon as guys come home and say you know don't count me on the back because things got change we fix this things will change in a different scrutiny. whether it was trying to change things or not i just had to do it i got to do it. and i just mean i think it's maybe it's like spitting in the ocean you know. it's you do it you care and you have to make your own stay. it's from your own heart. and i still my ankle and i'm down has made that oppressed she breezily cheesiness and still this time.
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push will bring in our brothers sisters home fight for peace march for peace stand for peace and leave. to play a game from. it is a time of hope our time to believe that peace can come that we can and just for that we can change the priorities of our country that we can move in a new and dynamic direction that we can make this an america that we can all be proud of that the sacrifice of our young men and women in iraq a must not be undone by. the only regret. is that i didn't do it correctly i mean. the sooner the twentieth there the walk. but to finish up i hope it's
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a good idea i didn't know what to expect when i got involved with the peace corps standing here for peace to it so it really renewed my faith in people and humanity and it's really reinforced my patriotism activists have a lot of different reasons for getting involved but in the end it all comes down to this it comes down to the hope that what you're doing to commit the world a better place and they could maybe even save a life. because. if what we're doing could save one person's life and that justifies all the embarrassment all the sacrifice all the pains of public protest. to children. it's all worth it. in that's the whole point it's the sincere hope and conviction that nobody else has to do. how are you going to do a day. like you say i did step back from
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