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from. the future. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. it's now a five thirty pm here in the russian capital you would see a recap now of our top stories nato says it's not going to build a joint anti missile system with russia that doesn't find it necessary to provide moscow with legal teams that she will be targeting a country that's plunges the dialogue deeper into a stalemate. as nato runs out of missiles words strike campaign over libya germany u. turns on its policy of abstaining from the conflict so it can deliver a bailout to its war. general. good
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from the war crimes court forcing the judge to enter a not guilty plea on his behalf and faces charges including genocide carried out in the balkans war some serbs accuse the hague of one sided just. war correspondent who has taken almost a thousand kilometer walk to talk people out of war. in the coming. week in.
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the. week. when i came home it was amazing it was honestly one of the best ones of my life i thought i was going to pass out i was so happy. there was my wife with my daughter that i hadn't seen for a year and it was just almost too good to be true i was going to. at the same time there was only so wonderful because it's been the last year away from them in iraq which was terrible and so when a t.v. camera man came up to me and asked me some questions i told him on a about it's
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a i'm really glad to be home and proud of my service but i am against the war in iraq and i know that some family members and some friends weren't pleased that i said that they thought i was older comes home and they just say that they're glad to be home the knowns and know the truth about what's going on in iraq. just. puts a. slight listed things in it maybe the support is happy and that states will. look good and so people want to be a one hundred plus the two seems to me that you know maybe it was.
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at least. at least a little. bit . of. a. supplement. my whole life and whatever i've tried to do i've tried to unite the will of the spirit to the work of the flesh it's a spiritual journey most spirituality which i always have to. have to deal with whether you call it that or not call it conscience i was never an anthem minister i never marched letters because i didn't think of it how and then i died after casey had been. killed for about three weeks my daughter in a crime. in
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a. couple of mine said if we the people don't let them continue another mother will be i have a duty to lisa we are. it's the guys are stuck where you you know a couple said you know go back yard yes they're fine for us so we asked for. their house before if i didn't object to some obvious injustice i couldn't live with myself and challenge them to find some place i'm going to try allison in jail and on my deathbed and say at least i tried to make them. when i thought we were getting deployed we were living in ohio so we just threw everything in a band of the tractor so now everything's kind of settled and i'm getting out of the army. and i have to go through all this crap and figure out what's the stuff i keep lots of stuff to trim back to the unit. so i can get out without paying too much
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money. i'm going to do. we are back from iraq on july twenty fourth that's the day you thought celebrates its statehood and so you know there's a tons of fireworks parades and things like that it was a bad day to come who was a soldier as well it sounds really it's really jittery and a little a little a little that i look people still interact. he called me one night and he said when i come home i have to do something about this war spending a year in iraq as a military journalist i saw so much waste going on with the u.s. contractors i saw so many soldiers not having a clear mission there just kind of wasting their time trying not to get killed for a year and then i talked to some iraqis and they said they wanted the u.s. presence can you just watch the movie i guess or not part of the light and he told
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me to go watch it so i kind of understand some of the feeling since coming from i don't connection to run cooking you're huge this is a question we've been protesting war for decades you know and i photo it was followed in his footsteps are you ready yeah i just the horses are just crazy are you hearing them and their. family member said it was really three i just said i'm going to spank him it's hard because in protest of this kind of a paradox you need to do something crazy enough to get the media and people to pay attention to you in the same time you can be so crazy that people think you're insane use of credibility he kept thinking of these ridiculous ideas and illegal things right. and i'd say and sell them places that are going on a hunger strike and then finally it came to me i thought i'll walk the link that you thought it would be about five hundred miles i didn't take me about twenty
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seven days and we were going to publicize it and have people invited to come along . that's thank you to hopefully speak with people started to bait have a dialogue instead of just. chanting the slogan or waving a sign some space in a figure of walking it's pretty normal i think people walk every day right it's not too bizarre not to do this to write a book right on to something very simple respects noncontroversial you just tell you everything. look. this is really a been raised and during the vietnam era when the peaceniks were a bunch of weird people they were hippies and and into drugs and that kind of stuff and i just didn't want my son to be associated with that kind of thing but. he really held it. yeah he needed to stop.
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the read a statement he should have the highest ratings for bush and for the war and it's my home state so i think this is the best place to do it and marshall is out of utah he's out of the predominant faith he says he's keep he looks like a normal utah nice not on the fringe he's not being mean trumps state of utah as a whole i think is extremely conservative and by that term i mean resistant to change he's i'm still really like george bush they like him as a guide eating on my having a glass of milk with them or beer if they're that kind of time i support president bush totally with sending all the people out to fight for our country because that's what it's all about our support for us. and it is because he's a republican and. this is because humanitarian one of the one of the. convent had one of the newer now don't know whether it is. an eight or shack
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eight year. blame god don't know which one it is but one of them said he thinks liberalism is disease. i've won the fight now which what about right can't i disagree with him is not to say he didn't get netting to fake cut diseases can be cured. i mean you starting out you want to spread the word and you have no budget no influence no connections to the. citizenry here. a. little bit. that's such. a. shit load it up. for. it long. slow get.
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used to press releases we've got a website up the networks with six hundred invited politicians from both parties i talked to an orthopedic doctor to talk to the physical trainer we publicize that we got permits to walk several protesting the students so my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone can see that user towns in your abilities keep treating this very moment i also went through local food you'll see. what the meanest thing anybody's ever said threatened by. a couple of pretty bad going to come along now and he will libel that make up that one other person i'll look at because i think it is very important i think the president needs to be there every week looking like people. i said something
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look look look look look look look look look look look look. look look look look look look look look look look look long. long look at the look look look look look look look look look look look. for every. leader here not known by not appreciate it you know you're right there. was no big number in there because no one you are like there they don't want you will look what i've been on the ground i thought i've heard. that there are here that's why we're here. i just need to get some communication and i need to take it with you don't offer we don't support the troops you support. but i wish the troops are doing peacemaking. amy goodman is the host of democracy now it's really popular news program and she
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was coming to town to do a book signing she's come to salt lake three people independently one of them told her hey while you're here in salt lake you should interview this army surgeon and she calls a night when we were expecting you know the next day we were down in salt lake during the interview to be goodman is going to know. today ted democracy now exposed army reservist marshall thompson to spend a year in iraq working as a military journalist the son of a former u. conn they are now plans to walk across his home state and the rest of the nation to protest war at this point it doesn't matter why we go into the war and what the partisan politics were about all matters is the two soldiers die every day on average and any any way that we can in this war one day seems to like it said that i would walk five hundred miles for this i would walk a thousand miles from. some people said some
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terrible things not never to my face you know but in even they got this electronic bravery and they would really say some crazy things one guy wrote in and he said that he hoped that i got run over by a truck i'm going to walk. a lot of people said i just hope you keep walking to mexico or you leave this country we don't want you here. and one gave and said that he wished that i had died in iraq because then i would have been on arrival. so i was about to go speak to utah state to help promote the walk in right before we go we had a phone call from the utah department transportation and they told me that if i was going to walk they would arrest me for trespassing on a state highway and suddenly it was political suddenly he was against it suddenly he needed a permit. for no other reason than that it was a piece which the. i told you that i would be arrested if i tried to walk through i can't believe one of someone's walking i mean you don't know why they're walking
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you just arrest them unchecked he says that i can't walk on the sidewalk myself because i have a reason for one side or would like you to do this could you tell your superiors that if you can just arbitrarily decide to meet me he didn't share his policy from other people. and. so will not be. but i'm. going to i'm sorry and i was just you just the previous hospital but he's not trying to arrest me yet to see your recipe. because you believe that the americans and the rest of the walk the street wearing way over our heads we don't know we're going luckily i thought it was a lawyer and so so he got in touch with the a.c.l.u. together they were able to convince the maturity that our view that. it wasn't fact right as a u.s. citizen and iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. if
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issues are toilet paper imodium i can proof and kettle black white or water lucky for you so for bring co-parents and then calories like trail mix or do it in gator eat ok this is a good start. it's the morning of the walking. and everything is pretty much ready for supper for good weather if nothing else has welcomed me feel better make me feel like a from. my best friend so nobody shows up i just washed in the rain all day really thought i was. not saying. it's the same planet sign that the bang out of the. sound just running dizzying speed of coming to mind it was funny oh and the.
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getting together. shyness of landfilling venezuela get out that would love to get on those sheets but that is something a son gains again the interesting of the. by the time we are to the point where people are going to walk with me to read the kind of stuff you scum the first test of this crazy stuff is going to work going around that corner and there isn't but you're going to get my business probably one hundred fifty people which response comic will get that's a lot. that was amazing that has been so good i feel at that moment i thought i could finally come home a lot of the time. it's just wonderful to see so many people here who want peace so thanks so much. time to clean. up the island
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so i can. when i sit in the sun in the states then they say no get up stand up. stand. he said get up stand down to get some sound good all of those give up the thought i. might start sean morning and i came down from oregon i heard any goodman on her program mark now say marshall was going to do this law and so i come from a long history. in during the civil rights movement. vietnam era. and saw the look i'm. going to turn the whole world around. but what can the world can't survive with with the scores going on and on no this
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has to happen now the to be. there is the changes hide in america and you're part of it today we're sending a mandate from the people to the government of the united states and to the representatives of utah especially for utah does not support a war we support peace and we support a plan for. this morning to become real to the american people the military is a war america is not and then needs to change. to get them here because my my dad is a neat combat and the way the war affected him. the need for. them to. this
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is an island childhood in my house and so i hope that this will be a place for instance of unity about finding another way i see as being like gone he's. gone he's walked his walk to the sea this is a big deal i think it will call attention to the fact that a lot of people feel similar you know similarly to the way he feels deep down inside but maybe they're afraid to voice their opinion even just a small demonstration to make the community aware that hey we exist i think it will help people think. when somebody from the u.s. military a soldier. sees what's going on over there and and can tell you exactly that there's no good that's coming out of iraq. it's a people listen to that they listen to a soldier i think his opinion it really indicative of what most soldiers think i
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think most soldiers think this right here you know that. that really we ought to stay the course we've got state we've got to put together we got to fight smarter we got to fight harder but we don't just give up and run away we can't leave these people we committed ourselves now i'd rather not we're for the you know being committed or not we're there now and we need to get committed to the cause but i would much rather die for a cause then for it to just die in vain i mean we've got right now all those people died and they all it's time for us to pull up to ourselves up by the bootstraps and . i mean come on wake up america we got it we got to win this thing. for about a mile or so opinion starting to move and this is dog groomer again a better. america in honoring his willingness to speak out unity about
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this that's why i can't get a lawyer on the air. yeah you're the worst nightmare. over there i'm sorry you don't like me don't laugh at me you know whacked because you are and you know what you better start paying attention to president bush and what we want you we are over there for a good cause we have found. that destruction whatever and you know what my loved one came home and you want to get back to work you are fine children may not support what on earth are you going prancing around if you want it and why don't we have number one have a mother want you when you know what there are. for the country over there i dont think i have a mother i paid for president bush and what he finds even farting not you and you know what my opinion of this guy walking i think is crazy i think there's an easier way to get a point across from walk across the state of utah in the one nine hundred sixty s.
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and be an activist an anti-war activist is considered generally. sort of disreputable and not really i think a thing to do and i think that's still true today people are. protesting this is this is this is what i hear from people i talk to them if you know the people who protest or if it is near you know their dead ender is there in their pot smokers. admiral gehman's traitorous protest your ass and. estimated. make up a. state . she said is there any.
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this is. the problem this list. is. listed. in the military they tell you that the people protesting the war and this mr bush will tell you the same thing that this one should be so that they be. for you there against the troops and what is that it's exactly the opposite i mean think about
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the leaders in the peace serax veterans against the war it's veterans for peace it's military families speak out it's gold star families for peace these are four organizations that are the leaders of the peace movement that are all surrounded by the military in the heart of military families speak out that's true the group are worried. i took my door at eight o'clock. and there was a military court. martial. for. it like this. i realize the level. of the work to. get to many more families are. quite frankly.
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here i am. sitting here. telling how the survivor. looking good thank you thank you so much yeah i must see both of you i'm. the democratic candidate for congress in the first district i was honored. except the invitation to be part of my name st ashdown i'm running for u.s. senate for utah and i'm here to support marshall because everybody is going to great and i want to miss larry and agree with you so much that i just got out of the army myself i'd like to be army for five years one of the rank of sergeant i'm here to support arsenal i've really support the cause enough to leave the people you know people need to be aware of what's going on the world right now great authority the active duty army supports this and they want more of this they don't want to put it you know send packages or put
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a sticker on their car or they want you to do this supporting the troops supporting a change. twenty years ago largest country in. this particular case it's just. us how did you train. to teach began the journey. where did it take the whole. culture is that so much different and there's a huge musician apparently trying to hide from the mark with his feelings starts its military withdrawal from iraq what does faith hold for the kurds and if the kurds strive towards an independent state what is stopped.
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