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of down this is coming to live from moscow the headline. shaking the foundations of europe takes a major step away from the shock and deal by imposing strict new customs controls on people traveling from germany all sweden causing concern is a fine breach visa free travel. in touch court has found the netherlands responsible for the deaths of three muslim men executed in the nineteen ninety five some massacre after being refused shelter by dutchy one peacekeeper his relatives i still find action in the netherlands and europe to challenge united nations immunity from prosecution but some critics saying the world should be in the dock and. and even as officials say nato is breaking the un security

council's on zimbabwe are also claiming to have intercepted a ship of a belgian made weapons from contraband trying to get out of rebel. hands up next that first part of our special report telling the story of a former correspondent who's almost a thousand kilometers trying to talk people away from supporting called. we.

do. what 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 i was so happy. there was my wife and my daughter that i had seen a year and it was just almost too good to be true it was going to. at the same time though there's 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 out of the bat it's a i'm really glad to be home i'm proud of my service but i am against or 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 nuns going to know the truth about what's going on in iraq. just. puts a. slight in listening to the push happened that day to. get him and so many people on the one hundred plus to the to the to the senior miss you know maybe it was.

a. little sleep. at least. least a. little sleep. 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 that's a spiritual journey most spirituality which all of us have to. have to deal with whether you call that or not call it conscience i was never an athlon minister never mind letters because i didn't think i learned how and then i died after casein have been. killed for about three weeks my daughter menopause and in the last couple of hindsight if we the people own let them continue another

mother will be i have a duty the least the least you know tell people by story. it's the guys are stuck. you know couple so they all go back we are there is there fun for us somewhere else for. your house. people like us if i didn't object to some obvious injustice i couldn't live with myself i thought well i can't make a difference unless i'm going to try l.a. some of the damage done on my deathbed and i say at least i tried to make a difference when i thought we were getting deployed we live in ohio so we just threw everything in a van and moved 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 turn back to you know. so i can get out without paying too much money. i'm going to do it it's. back from iraq

on july twenty fourth that's the day you toss celebrates its statehood and so you know there's like tons of fireworks parades and things like that it was a bad day to come home as a soldier it's loud sounds when it's really jittery and a little bit wake up and i would think it was still rock. he called me one night and said when i come home i have to do something that in this war spending the year in iraq is 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 gone can you just watch the movie i guess or not part of the why and he told me to go watch it so i kind of understand some of the feelings feels coming

from both connection to run cold and you know he was just this veteran you've been protesting war for decades you know and i photo i was finding his footsteps i heard you took me back i just the horses were just crazy ideas and then and hearing. well family member said it was really during 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 at the same time it can be so crazy that people think you're insane and you lose all credibility he kept thinking of these ridiculous ideas and illegal things like. south. places going on a hunger strike and then finally it came to me i thought all walk the link that you thought it would be about five hundred miles it would take me about twenty seven days and we were going to publicize it and have people invited to come with us i

could hopefully speak with people started to bait have a dialogue instead of just. chanting a slogan or waving a sign in someone's face and i figured walking it's pretty normal i think people walk every day right it's not too bizarre not to do this you know right if you are right and do something very simple we're such non-controversial if. 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 a thing but. he really helped. to stop. 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 of utah ease of the predominant faith she says she's he looks like a normal utah nice not on the friendship he's not banging drums so. state of utah as a whole i think is extremely conservative by that term i mean resistant to change the tone still really like george bush and like him as a guy would mind having a glass of milk with him or if there are 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. because are appropriate and. this is because if you have my military and one of the one of the. command had one of the new and i don't know whether it. entertain or sadly here. bob don't know

which one it is but one of them shady things liberal it is meant to seize. and i want to fight it out with a lot of the right kind of i disagree with him it's not just age isn't genetic defect got diseases can be cured. i mean you're starting out you want to spread the word and let people know you have no budget no influence no connections how do you do that. seriously thanks for. a. shit load. that's. going to make. it shit load it. for shit let's talk a. little bit tense recent press releases we got

a website a network news 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 watch over protest from the students so my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone can seem to use their towns and their abilities she treated this free moment i also went to the street you'll see. what's the meanest thing anybody's ever said driving by your mother it's pretty bad you can imagine them all out of jail or where we have libeled them a couple of and one other person all. because i think it is very important i think that the president needs to be there every week three months before the war and. i said some. pretty good.

looking looking. at all. look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look. but. still even if you're not legal why don't you just you know you're right. i'm told you guys have. been there they have no idea what like they are they don't think i know what you will look what i've been on the ground i thought i've. been there for here that's why we're here. i didn't make it clear indication that you can take it with you don't lawyer and we don't know what the truth is. but i wish the kids were doing make. amy goodman is the host of democracy now it's 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 while you're here in salt lake you should interview this army surgeon she calls up that night and we were expecting you know the next day we were down there in salt lake during interviews the goodman is going to announce. today ted democracy now explosive army reservist marshall thompson he spent a 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 nation to protest war at this point it doesn't matter why we got into the war or what the partisan politics were about well matters is the two soldiers dying every day on average and any any way that we can in this war one day soon is two lives saved and i would walk five hundred miles for that i would walk a thousand miles for that. some people said some terrible things not never to my face you know but in even though 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 on my 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 guy even said that he wished that i had died in iraq because then i would have been on a wall. 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 of transportation and they told me that 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 other reason than that it was a peaceful but you told me that would be arrested for trying to walk i can't believe one of the symbols walking i really need to know why there was just arrest them unchecked he says that i can't walk on the sidewalk myself because i reasoned

through the sidewalk but 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. and. so will be. when i'm. on tour i'm sorry and i was just you just. kind of you just want to play for. you know trying to arrest me yeah seriously you arrest me. for most americans do you believe the american press to walk down the street wearing way over our heads we don't know what we're doing luckily my father in law is 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 it wasn't that my right as a u.s. citizen and iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. this

use of toilet paper imodium i've been proof and kemah backbiter of water walkie talkie cell phone ring tone pants and then calories like trail mix or gait in gator it ok that is a good start. it's the morning of the walking. and everything is pretty much ready . 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 it was thought i. was. saying. some say we've run out of time let the bang out of the. sound just like burning is in the oh come on your mind this funny you know whether you can hear. them getting me get. shyness i'm glad that i'm gonna say

let's get out of that wind in love again and get on the sheets with that be sending us some real good it's a good look at the sting of the good. by the time we got to the point where people are going to walk with me the return stuff or the scum the first test of this crazy stuff is going to work yeah i went around that corner and there was a big you can i could manage and there was probably one hundred fifty people which response comic will get that's a lot. that was amazing that just didn't feel so good i feel at that moment i thought i could finally come home everybody. it's just wonderful to see so many people here who want peace so thanks so much. wonderful thank you. i'm all right let's start walking. when i see the sun in the six then they say no get

up stand up. stand. he said get up stand up to some sound get love those give up trying. to give it. my name is don chong morning and i came down from oregon i heard any goodman on her program now say marshall was going to do this book and so i come from a long history. in this during the civil rights movement of all. vietnam. and saw the outcome. we're going to turn the whole world around. but what can the world can't survive with with the spores going on and on no this has to happen. to be. there is

a changing tide in america and you're a 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 we support a plan for iraq. has more needs to become real to the american people the military is a war america is not and then needs to change. way . to get them here because my dad is a meat mom dad and the way they were affected him. made her. some. it

is a 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 to use. gandhi's walk news walk to the 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 their opinion even just a small demonstrations going 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 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've got 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 commit ourselves now whether or not we are 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 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 up the canyon starting here and. this is dog door again a better. america in honoring his willingness to speak out community about this that's why i came down oh you're on the air. yeah you know the worst nightmare

for us. over there i'm sorry don't laugh at me don't laugh at me you know whacked because you are and you know when 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. now destruction weapons whatever and you know what my loved one came home and you know what you have to get back to work your five children may not support what on earth are you doing around you one and why did we have loved one as a mother want to support you when you know what we're. for the country over there i don't think i had a mother i think or president bush and what he signed he's been through aren't. 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 the more across the state of utah in the one nine hundred sixty s. to be an activist an anti-war activist was considered generally. sort of

disreputable and not really ethical 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 when i talk to them you know the people who protested in phoenix near you know they're dead enders they're in their pot smokers. or demonstrators protest us and. estimated one hundred. teachers. make up a. simple. straight. forward she said he said.

mark. this is. the problem if you wish list you just. listed. the. most young. says. that must be. in the military they tell you that the people protesting the war and the smiths rachel tell you the same thing that this one should be sort of heavy handed something. for you there against the troops and what i feel is that it's exactly the opposite i mean think about the leaders in the piece it's iraq that trans

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 part of military families speak out that's true but the group are worried and it. all starts with my door at eight o'clock. am there was a military court i want to. hear it for. it like this you know what. i realize that unless. i took a walk back to. it too many more families that are for the war. people give voice to. a line.

that's. if you see. how the survival rate i'm going to go 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 this my name's pete ashdown 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 him is larry can agree with me so much so that i just got out of the army myself i was active duty army for five years one of the rank of a sergeant i'm here to support martial. rules for the cause and i believe that 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 know send packages or posting under car or they want you to do this supporting the troops supporting a change.