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arrangement three. three. two three. three blogs you're still in videos for your media project and the street real dog archie dog song. can i get in this is all three coming to you live from moscow to heaven. still told nato and russia reach no agreement on a missile defense shield for europe after talks in sochi as the alliance refuses moscow's calls the illegal going to ease at its proposed system won't target russian territory. also joining russia cannot it is a gesture from the war crime school for protesting at the judge in the hague enters and not guilty to believe he is the half to charges of genocide and crimes against
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humanity meanwhile sunset's accused they tried to hold one side of justice and it's cost about it. alland under fire obama's plans to pull out troops from afghanistan come on that time got a post from opponents they say is too much of a military risk that's kind of on a tight schedule. and as the headlines up next to me to assume a war correspondent it's taken a walk of almost a thousand kilometers just to talk people out. coming. week.
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when i came home it was amazing i was honestly one of the best friends of my life i thought i was going to pass out it was some kind of in there was my wife and my daughter that i had seen for a year and it was just almost too good to be true it was wonderful. 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 her about it's
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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 it was maybe inappropriate at the time but if every soldier comes home and they just say that they're glad to be home the knowns going to know the truth about what's going on right. just. puts a. slight listed things in it may be disappointing happen that states will put in place a man looked at him in so many people on the field one hundred plus the junior senior mizuno and maybe it was. done in the salt lake.
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city. police say. at least something slim. lists pitifully small things. and. a. lot of. 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 or that's a spiritual journey myself the spirituality which all this after. i have to deal with what you call that or not call it conscience i was never an activist never mind letters because i didn't think i learned how and then i died after casein i think. so for about three weeks my daughter ran
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a crime and you know the last couple hindsight if we the people rather than continue another mother will be i would do the police the least you know tell people my story. it's the guys are stuck where you you know call for study or go back we are there is there fun for us so we house the fire. and the house. people like us if i didn't object to some obvious injustice i couldn't live with myself i can't meet and if i had some place i'm going to try i summon and then i got on my deathbed and say at least i tried to make it and when i thought we were getting deployed we were living in ohio so we just threw everything to the band of troops back home 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 i turned back to the unit. so i can get out without
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him too much money. i'm going to do the things. yeah back from morocco on july twenty fourth that's the day you got so braids and stay put in so you know there's like tons of fireworks parades and things like that it was a bad day to come home with so you know it's loud sounds when it's really jittery but in the middle of that i look up and i look at least you are right. he called me one night and he said when i come home i have to do something that this war spending the year in iraq is in the trade journals i saw so much waste going on with 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 so many iraqis and they said they wanted the u.s.
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presence gone you just watch the movie i guess or not part of your life and he told me to go outside so i kind of understand some of the feelings he was calling for i thought connection to run cooking you know he was this special been protesting war for decades you know and i photo i was found in his footsteps pretty pretty yeah i just don't always see where he's crazy you are here and here. where there may be a bridge there was really a dream i just said i'm going to spank 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 in the same time it can be so crazy that people think you're insane and use a credibility he kept thinking of these ridiculous ideas and their legal right. thing i'd say and sell him places that going on a hunger strike and then finally it came to me i thought oh rock the link if you
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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 on. yes i think to hopefully speak with people started to bait have a dialogue instead of just. chanting the slogan or waving signs from space and i figured walking that's pretty normal people walk every day right so too bizarre it's not good to just sit there write a book right into something very simple we're such non-controversial. everything. look. for us this is really again 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 felt that. yeah we need to stop.
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the read a statement he said we 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 ease of the predominant faith she says she's keep she looks like a normal utah nice not on the fringe she's not banging drums the state of utah as a whole life and physics greenly conservative by that term i mean resistant to change he's i'm still really like george bush they like him as a guy they would mind have got some help with them 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 how i support bush. and that it's because you were perfectly good. this is because you're my maternity and not it one of the. command had one of the new guy don't know whether it is. an eight or
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shad eight year. thank god i don't know which one it is one of them said he thinks liberal leader million disease. i've won the fight now but what about right ted i disagree with him it's not diseases and genetic defect cunt diseases can be cured. i mean you started out you want to spread the word and you have no budget no influence no connections to the. citizenry answer. please please. please. please please. let's cut. a. shit load. for. it
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let's talk a. little bit and. you sent out press releases we got a website up networking websites that invited politicians from both parties i talked to an orthopedic doctor at hearts who would be visible trainer we publicize that we got permits who are protesting the scenes so my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone can see user accounts in your abilities he created this very moment i also went through rituals. let me just think anybody's ever said private by a. very bad thing and. then a lot of the real life all that makeup and motherhood and all. that they look like it is very important i think the president looking at every week like people look for a long long distance took
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a 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 look look look. the third period. here particularly obama you know you're right her. clothes have they never been there they've got no one you look like they are they don't think i don't want you will look what i've been on the ground i brought them over there. but they are here for why we're here. i just think it's a communication and i need to take it with you don't love it or we don't support you. but i wish that you believe he's making a. amy goodman is the host of democracy now it's really popular news program and
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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 while you're here in salt lake you should interview this army surgeon and she calls up that night and we were expecting to you know the next day we were down there's always 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 in the red in the nation press house for this point it doesn't matter why we go into the war or what the partisan politics rip up the matters is the two soldiers die every day on average and any any way that we can in this war one day soon as to right so that i would walk five hundred miles for that i would walk a thousand miles for. some people said some
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terrible things not never to my face you know but in even now they got this electronic bravery and they 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 the mexico or you leave this country going on here. and we'll gavan said that he wished that i had died in iraq because then i would have been honorable. so i was about to go speak at 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 if i was going to walk they would arrest me for trespassing on the state highway suddenly it was political suddenly he was against it suddenly he needed a permit. for no whatever reason than that it was a piece which we. i told you that would be arrested if i tried to walk if i had to
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leave one of someone's walking i mean you don't know why or why you just arrest them unchecked he says that i can't walk on the sidewalk myself because i have a reason for walking the sidewalk but would like you to do is could you tell your superiors to do we can just arbitrarily decide meet me didn't transpose the other people. i'm. so old enough to keep. but i'm. on i'm sorry and i was just you just the right of you just wants to like walk just like you're trying to arrest me yeah seriously the rest. of the. story has to be believed in the american press to walk the street wearing way over our heads even though we're dealing luckily my father was a lawyer and so so he got in touch with e.c.l. you together they were able to convince the majority that our view that. it was in fact my right as a u.s.
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citizen and an iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. fishies it's a good paper imodium i didn't proof any kind of black letter and water working for you so for bring cone pants and then calories like trial makes or do in gator it ok that is a good start well it's the morning of the walking. dead and everything's pretty much ready i was hoping for good weather if nothing else just walked over me over me like a friend did my best right so nobody shows up i just washed in the rain all day really thought i. was. just not saying. it's the same planet it's on the bang out of. the. sound just like running does in the coming of the mind it is
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funny the. getting together. shyness of way of the things saying get out there with a new get on those sheets without the sound the same spiel gains again looking to sing us to grow. by the time we are to the point where people are going to walk with me three become stuck with you scum the first test of this crazy stuff is going to we're. going around that corner and there is a period from our lives and there is probably one hundred which the first one how i quote it that's a lot. that was amazing that this truth and so good i feel at that moment i thought i could finally come home everybody. it's so wonderful to see so many people here who want peace thanks so much. want to. thank you. i love
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sarah walker. the light says something the zigzag and they say no get up stand up. stand up. he said get up stand up to sun down in the sun the guy. giving. my name is john shawn 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 the during the civil rights movement of all. vietnam era. and saw the moon come up. we're going to true home world around. what more can the world can't survive with with just wars going on and on no this
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has to happen it's now the 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 for utah does not support a war we support peace it was a total plan for iraq to. cause more needs to become real to the american people the military is a war america is not and then needs to change. the . way. to get them here because my my dad is
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a neat combat and the way they were affected him. made for. some. he says 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 lost his want to see 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 serve can you even just a small demonstrations going 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
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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've got to fight smarter we'll 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 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 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 here and. this is dog from oregon a better. america in honoring his willingness to speak out and unity about
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this that's why i came down oh you're on the air. yeah you know the word nightmare . over there i'm sorry don't bother me don't laugh at me you know why because you are and you know what you better start paying attention to president bush and what we want to do we are over there for a good cause we have found. that faction whatever and you know what my loved one came home and you want to get back to work your five children they do not support what on earth are you doing around you want it and why did we i want one after mother want you when you know what her. hungry over there i don't think oh i have a mother i think for president bush and what he finds even for art not you and you know me my opinion of this guy walker that i think is crazy i think there's an easier way to get
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a point across the more cautiously and then i think sixty's to be enacted misstep anti-war activist was considered generally. sort of disreputable and not really i think a thing to do and i think it's still true today people are. protesting this is this is this is what i hear from people i talk to them you know the people who protest or if you use their you know their dead ender is there in their pot smokers. straightest protest your ass and. just might. take up a. state . just to conservation and. she said is there
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a. this is. just false to this list that you just. listed. it. says. in the military they tell you that the people protesting the war are the smiths rachel tell you the same thing but this one should be some of the be. for you
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they're against the troops and what is that it's exactly the opposite i mean think about the leaders in the peace sarette veterans against the war it's veterans for peace it's military families speak out it's gold star families for peace these are organizations that are the leaders of the peace movement that are all surrounded by the military part military families speak out for the group are worried. i'll start with my current eight o'clock. am there were no words. for. it like this. i realize it led. to many more families because of the long. flight.
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i keep. coming out of my mind i'm looking good thank you thank you so much yeah i must see both of you i'm a. 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 score marshall because i think what he's going to grade on him is larry tanenbaum he's all excited i just got out of the army myself back to the army after five years one of the rank of sergeant i'm here to support arsenal to 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 majority of the active duty army supports this and they want more of this they don't want to put it you
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know send packages or posting under car or they want you to do this supporting the troops supporting a change. to the lose leave. just.
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when. it. comes. to.
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