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from the conflict so you can deliver a problem to its war. general record knowledge is ejected from the war crimes court forcing the just to enter a not guilty plea on his behalf of leverage faces charges including genocide carried out in the balkans war as some search accuse the hague of the one sided just. flowing back in less than half an hour from now as the news continues here on in the meantime we meet a former war correspondent who's taken the walk of almost a thousand kilometers just to talk to people of war that's our special report next on r.t. . he

. knew. when i came home it was amazing i was honestly one of the best goons of my life i thought i was going to pass out i was so happy. there was my wife and my daughter that i had seen her here 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 about it's a i'm really glad to be home i'm 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 i thought was maybe an appropriate time but if every soldier comes home and they just say that they're glad to be home the knowns in the truth about what's going on in iraq. just. that it's puts a. slight listed things in it maybe the support is absent and states will be in place until manhood examined so famous people want to be

a one hundred plus the two seems to me to know maybe it was. a. little slip is this many many months in the salt lake city. police and the belief system. and. a. lot of. my whole life and whatever i've tried to do i've tried to unite the will of the spirit of the work of the flesh that's a spiritual journey most spirituality which all of us have to. have to deal with what it called that or not call it conscience i was never an ass and this time i never march to my letters because i didn't think of how and then my daughter after

casein have been. killed for about three weeks my daughter in a crime and you know the last couple hindsight if we the people let them continue another mother will be i have a duty so it's the least you know tell people my story. it's the guys are stuck or are you you know couple said they all go back we are there it's their fun for us so we asked for. their house. people if i didn't object to some obvious injustice i couldn't live with myself i love it can't make a difference at least i'm going to try at least some of the damage on my deathbed and say at least i tried to make it up. when i thought we were getting deployed. we live in ohio so we just threw everything in a band of fact 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 what's the stuff a train wreck unit. so i can get out without paying for much money. i'm going to do the things. i had back from iraq on july twenty fourth that's the big celebrates and statehood and so you know there's like kinds of fireworks create some things like that it was a bad day from what was a soldier it's loud sounds when it's really jittery in the middle of the night i look up and i look people standing around. and called me one night and said when i come home i have to do something members are spending the year in iraq as a military journalist i saw so much waste going on with u.s. contractors i saw so many soldiers not having a clear mission they're 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 got to you just watch the movie i guess or not part of the life and he told me the car lots it's like kind of understand from a young seal's coming from i don't catch in the wrong coding you know he was this special you've been protesting war for decades you know and i photo it was for them it's what steps i heard you correctly yeah i just got my sister his hers here and there and there. well there may be adversaries really i just said straight to him it's hard because protesting is kind of a paradox you need to do something crazy enough to get the media and people to pay attention to you at the same time it can be so crazy that people think you're insane you lose all credibility. it's ridiculous ideas and illegal things like. 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 do it takes me about twenty seven days and we're going to publicize it and have people invited to come with us i think to hopefully speak with people started to beit have a dialogue instead of just. chanting a slogan or waving a sign and some space and i figured walking it's pretty normal i think people walk every day right to bizarre not to do this you know right or. right on to something there is there were such non-controversial. everything. else for us this is again raised and during the vietnam era when the peaceniks were a bunch of weird people they were hippies and and into tribes and that guy stuff and i just didn't want my son to be associated with that kind of thing.

he really felt that. yeah let me just tell. you tells the read a statement he should have the highest approval 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 how do you top east of the predominant piccies he looks like a normal utah nice not on the fringe he's not being mean. state of utah as a whole i think the six grimly consumer group by that term i mean resistant to change each time still really like george bush and like him as a guy they would mind having a glass of milk with him or 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 both of. them it is because of the republicans. is it because if you remember the turkey and one of the one of the news that i may

have had one of the new and i don't know how did it. entertainer sat eight year thank god i don't know which one it is but one of them said he thinks liberalism and disease. and i've won the fight out like what about right kev i disagree with him is not is a decision good net effect cut decisions can be cured. i mean you started out you want to spread the word and you have no budget no inferred smoke mexicans. citizenry here's. a. little. let's cut. the. shit load it. up for.

it let's talk a. little bit and. recent press releases we got a website up networked with six hundred invited politicians from both parties i talked to an orthopedic doctor i talked to the physical trainer we publicize that we got permits to walk over protesting the statins kill my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone can see that user towns in your abilities treated this free moment i also went through local food you'll see. what the meanest thing anybody's ever said private by. the cooks up pretty bad they're going to come along now and we're libel that make up that motherhood thing all look like it is very important i think the president leave it there every week

like people are and. i said something gang look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look at all. look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look. i presume. you're not completely on line on the issue no longer the french are locals have they never been there you know the more you look like they are they don't think i'm the one you will look what i've been on the ground i thought i've heard. that they are here for why we're here. i don't think you have some communication i need to take it with you don't offer we don't support the troops.

but i wish the commitment he's making. amy goodman is the host of democracy down to really popular news program and she was coming to town to do a book signing she's come to salt lake three people independently one of them told her hey why you're here in salt lake you should interview this army surgeon and she calls it that night when we were expecting to have the next day we were down there in salt lake do the interview goodman is going to announce. today ted democracy now exposed to army reservist marshall thompson dispensing year in iraq working as a military journalist the son of a former you time they are he now plans to walk across his home state reps in the nation to protest for at this point it doesn't matter why we got into the war and what the partisan politics were about all matters is the two soldiers dying every day on average and any any way that we can in this war one day soon as tonight said

it and i would walk five hundred miles for that i would walk a thousand miles from where. some people said some 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 if you walk into mexico or you leave this country when i want you here. and want gavan said that he wished that i had died in iraq because then i would have been on the ruble. so i was about to go speak at utah state to help promote the walk in right before we go in a phone call from the utah department of transportation and they told me that if i was going to walk they would arrest me for trespassing on the 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 peaceful but you. i told you that i would be arrested for trying to look good i shan't believe but what if someone's walking i mean you don't know why they're walking you just arrest them unchecked he says that i can walk on the sidewalk myself because i have a reason for one side more who would like you to do this could you tell your superiors to do we can't just arbitrarily decide to meet me didn't choose policy from other people. i'm. so old enough because. my mum. i'm sorry and i was just you just the right of you just wants to like while. you're trying to arrest me yeah seriously you arrest me. i'm going to. stay because you believe in the american press to walk straight hearing way over our heads we don't know what we're doing luckily my father was a lawyer and so so he got in touch with the a.c.l.u. together they were able to convince the attorney general of the time that. there

was in fact a right as a u.s. citizen and an iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. fishies it's a good paper imodium i've been proofing camelback by underwater walkie talkie cell phone ring code parents and then calories like troll makes for good in gator and k. that is a good start. it's the morning of the walk. and everything's pretty much ready i was hoping for good weather if nothing else this walk with me feel better make me feel like i'm doing my best right so nobody shows up i just washed in the rain all day really thought i. was. saying. the same planets on the bang out of.

the. sound just like running does in the coming of the night in this funny away the. getting me gather. the shyness away. get out that with love a new get on the sheets with that beside us feel that it's a good looking this thing of the right but by the time we are to the point where people are going to walk with me three become stuck with the scum the first test of this crazy stuff going to work going around that corner and there is a period when i can imagine there's probably one hundred fifty people which the first one 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 lady. it's just wonderful to see so many people here in one piece thanks so much. tony.

all right let's start walking. when i say something six then i'm not a say no get up stand up. stand. he said get up stand i'm going to sleep sound good love this give up trying. to. find it on song morning and i came down from oregon. heard me goodman on her program mark now say marshall was going to do this more often and so i come from a long history. in the during the civil rights movement. vietnam era. and saw the moon come on. we're going to turn the whole world around.

what more can the world can't survive with with the scores going on and on no this has to happen it's valid to be. there is a changing tide 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 the utah does not support a war we support peace and was a total plan for. this morning is 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 they were affected him. made for. them he. is it violent childhood in my house and so i hope that this will be a place for some sense of unity about finding another way i see as being like gone he's. gone he's walking 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 the way he feels deep down inside but maybe they're afraid to voice serve in you know even just a small demonstrations to make 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 isn't really indicative of what most soldiers think i think most soldiers think this right here you know that. that really we need of course we got state we 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 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 in vain 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 a canyon starting here and. this is dog oregon. a better.

america and honoring his willingness to speak out community about this that's why i came down i know you're on the air. yeah you're the worst nightmare. over there i'm sorry don't laugh at 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. we have found. that destruction and whatever and you know what my loved one came home and you want to get back to work your five children may not support what on earth are you going around you wanted and why did we want one as a mother for you when you know what you have her. for the country over there i don't think oh i have a mother i paid for president bush and what he's trying to even start not you and

you know what are my opinion of this guy walker and i think it's crazy i think there's an easy way to get a court across the walk across the state of utah in the one nine hundred sixty s. to be an activist an anti-war activist is considered generally. sort of this reputable not really ethical thing to do and i think it's still for the people of the protests and this is this is this is what i hear from people i talk to them if you know the people who protested if you use their you know their get in there is there in their pot smokers. and he will come and straightest protest your ass and. estimated. make up of.

state. space and. she said it's. this is. just from this list that you just. listed. in the military they tell you that the people protesting the war or the smiths

rachel say the same thing that this one should be sort of heavy. for you they're against the troops and what is that it's exactly the opposite i mean think about the leaders in the future it's iraqi actions against the war it's veterans for peace it's military families speak out it's gold star families for peace these are for organizations that are the leaders of the peace movement that are all surrounded by the military part of military families speak out that's true. they're worried that if. i open my door at eight o'clock. am there was a military order. for. it like this you don't. realize that a lot of. work to. get too many working families

that are. good for you right. i see. it on the street i'm. 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 johnstone i'm running for u.s. senate for utah and i'm here to support marshall because i think what he's going to great and i want to him is larry and i'm in so much that you i just got out of the army myself as i could be army for five years one of the rank of sergeant i'm here to support arsenal this group is for the cause not believe the people you know people need to be aware of what's going on the right now great majority of the

active duty army supports this and they want more of this they don't want to put it you know some packages are posted on their car or they want you to do this supporting the troops supporting a change. loosley . just.