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it was lazy you invited. who. started the other guy. truth is. this is also you coming to you live from the headlines. majority of passengers from the ferry that sank on the revolt in the toughest on republic and central russia have been saved with one woman killed the number of missing is unknown the rescue operation is underway. in other news as we highlight the week's top stories georgia's spy hunter has a chargers high profile photographers with snooping for moscow but skeptics say it's an anti russian image boost about president bush meeting. all says damage
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angry gyptian czars they returns to to have squared to best against the interim leader is what they say stole their revolution while authorities ordered the suspension of policemen accused of killing protesters during february is uprisings . the all the front page britain's best selling newspaper rolls out for the last time was but not exactly five as the title while photocopying planes and reporters are read intensified. as the headlines up next the us army veteran who became a real food soldier with the recent work to walk rather to highlight the wrong.
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complete. and complete. when you're. new. to me. when i came home it was amazing i was honestly one of the best friends of my life i thought i was in the past i was so happy. there was my wife and my daughter that i had seen right here and it was just honest to good to be true it was wonderful. at the same time though there's only so wonderful because it's been the last year away
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from them in iraq which is terrible and so with t.v. camera man came up to me and asked me some questions i told him out of 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 were 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 unknowns going to know the truth about what's going on in iraq. let's. see supply in listed things
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a student may be disappointed sap in their states will win in places where we're going to get them and so for people on the field one hundred plus the two seen them is you know maybe it was. the salt lake. city. police saying. something. in. the middle. of. a. couple of years. 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 and that's a spiritual journey my school spirituality which all of us have to. have to deal with whether you call it that or not call it conscience i was never an athame as to
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i never monster letters because i didn't think i learned how and then i died after casey had. killed about three weeks my daughter in a crime and you know the last couple of hindsight if we the people let them continue another mother will be i have a duty to go east the least you know tell people my story. it's the guys are stuck or we are here you know couple so they all go back we are there it's they're fine for us somebody's house or. in their house. before if i didn't object to some obvious injustice i couldn't live with myself not a catholic and if i had some place among the tri ellis island and i got on my deathbed and say at least i tried to make a difference when i thought i were getting deployed i would we're live in ohio so we just threw everything in
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a 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 turn back and you know. so i can get out without paying too much money. i'm going to do the things. we are back from iraq on july twenty fourth that's the day you toss over braids and statehood and so you know there's a tons of fireworks praise and things like that it was a bad day to come home was a soldier as well it sounds when it's really jittery in the middle of the night well that's what i look at this little rock. he called me one night. when i come home i have to do something now members are 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
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a clear mission or just kind of wasting their time trying not to get killed every year and then i talked to some iraqis and they said they wanted the u.s. presence gone just watch the movie i guess or not part of the light and he told me to go outside so i kind of understand some of the feelings he was coming from people trapped in the room coding you know he was this special has been protesting work for decades you know and i focus on his footsteps pretty pretty i just always assume he's crazy here and there and here. where there may be restored or is really a dream i just said i'm going to spank him it's hard because in protesting 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 it can be so crazy that people think you're insane and you lose a credibility he kept thinking of these ridiculous ideas and then legal things like
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. snatch a and sell him places and going on a hunger strike and then finally it came to me i thought i'll walk the length of you thought it would be about five hundred miles i do it would take me about twenty seven days and we were going to publicize it and have people invite them though. yes thank you to hopefully speak with people started to bait have a dialogue instead of just. chanting a slogan or waving a sign some space in a figure of walking that's pretty normal people walk every day right too bizarre it's not good it is to go write a book right on to something very simple we're such non-controversial it just everything. looks. 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
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and i just didn't want my son to be associated with that kind of thing but. he really held it in. yeah like he just said. utah's the read a statement he said we 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 how do you top ease some of the predominant hate cheese keeps you looks like a normal you time he's not on the fringe he's not banging drums the state of utah as a whole i think is extremely conservative by that term i mean resistant to change see tom still really like george bush they like him as a guide eighteen would mind having a glass of milk 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 i support but. then it is because you are purposely. this is
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because you fear my military and one of the but of the. survey that had one of the new now i don't know what it is. an eight or shad eight here. bob don't know which one it is but one of them said he thinks liberalism in disease. and i've won the fight now we've got about and i tell you i disagree with him it's not to say he didn't genetic defect countries egypt can be cured. i mean you started out you want to spread the word and you have no budget no influence no commercials i mean be that. serious or. a. little.
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let's cut. a little. bit. closer. to. it long. ago it. was the press releases we got a website a network news with slick food invited politicians from both parties i talked to an orthopedic doctor i talked to physical trainer we publicize that we got permits to walk over protesting the students so my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone can seem to use their towns and their abilities which she treated as freedom and i also went through rituals. let me just think anybody's ever said privately buy your. ticket up pretty badly you're going to. come along well it will i will let me help and one other person
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i'll look at it like it is very important i think the president needs to be there every week likely and. i said some good 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 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 look. part of. the story here and look likely on why not appreciate the longer run for politicos have begun to get in there you know knowing you look like they're they don't want you will look what i've been on the ground i thought i've. been there for here looks like we're here. i don't think it's a communication and i need to take it we've got
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a lot we don't support the troops. but i wish that you believe he's making. amy goodman is the host of the marcus you know it's really popular news program the shoes come into town to do a book signing she's going to start with 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're expecting to see how the next day we're down there in salt lake do the interview can be good and it is going to announce. today ted democracy now exclusive army reservist marshall thompson dispensing year in iraq working as a military journalist the son of a former yukon they are in now plans to walk across his home state the red state and the nation to protest war at this point it doesn't matter why we got into the war and what the partisan politics were about all matters is that two soldiers die
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every day on average and any any way that we can in this war or in the suit was to live so that 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 the e-mail 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 when i want you here. 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 to utah state to help remove the walk in right before we go we had a phone call from the 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
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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. he told me that i would be arrested for trying to look good i shan't believe but what if some was walking and i we don't know why there was you just arrest him and check he says that i can't walk on the sidewalk myself because i have a reason for one side more who would like you to do this because you tell yourself you used to do it we can't just arbitrarily decide meet me didn't transpose the room other people. i'm. so will not be here. but i'm. on i'm sorry you know it's just you just. heard me just wants to like walk because you're trying to arrest me yeah seriously you're asking. a. stewardess to keep believing the americans and the rest to walk the street wearing way over our heads we don't know we're going luckily my father in law is
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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 way right as a u.s. citizen and an iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. fishies it's good tipper imodium i've been proofing camelback butter and water working for you so for green cone parents and then calories like trail mix here again. 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 this welcoming me over me like i'm doing my best thing right so nobody shows up i just washed in the rain all day really thought i. was.
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not saying. it's the same man it's on the bang that. sound just like burning does in the coming of the night in this minute where the. getting together. shyness of land things where you get out of that wind in love again and again on the streets without a sound the same spiel that it's a good looking to sing us think. that by the time we are to the point where people are going to walk away from the return stuff of the scum the first test of this crazy stuff and we're. going around the corner there is a big year for marriage and madness probably one hundred fifty people which first of all how microgram that's a lot. and that was amazing for the truth and so good a cook at that moment i thought i could finally come home everybody.
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it's just wonderful to see so many people here who want things said thanks so much . tony. i'll start walking. when i see the sun in the six then and i say no get up stand up. stand up pulling your leg he said get up stand i'm too tired to suck down the son of a dying. never. mind the song morning i came down from oregon i heard any goodman on her program tomorrow i'll say marshall was going to do this stuff and so i come from a long history. in this during the civil rights movement of all.
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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 power to be. there is a change in 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 specially the 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
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get them here because my my dad is a neat combat and the way they were affected him. made her. some. he says in 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 their opinion even just a small demonstrations going to make the community aware that hey we exist i think it will help people. when somebody from the u.s. military a soldier. sees what's going on over there and and can tell you exactly
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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 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 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 could not 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.
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for about a mile or so can you starting today and. this is dog her you. better . america follow in 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. but i'm sorry don't let me stop me you know why because you are and you know when you go to therapy and a program like and what we want you to do we are over there. we have found. that distraction and whatever and you know what my loved one came home and you know what we have to get back to work fine children may not support one hundred are you going around if you want to and why should we have not one that a mother more than you when you know what her. addiction we already are i don't
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think oh i had a mother i think for president bush and what he doesn't even start. you when you want me on 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 and then i think sixty's to be an activist an anti-war activist was considered generally. sort of disreputable not really ethical thing to do and i think that's still true that 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 then you're dead ender is near impossible. you're welcome strangers protest your ass and i cannot. estimate the.
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state. she said it's a tough. this is. from this list that you just. listed. the. young. people. in the military they tell you that the people processes or
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the smiths rachel tell you the same thing that this one should be sort of heavy and some of the. more you learn against the troops what fun 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 the four organizations that are the leaders of the peace movement that are all surrounded by the military part military families speak out that's true but the group are worried and it. will start because i open my door at eight o'clock. am there were the military records. for a. bit like this. i
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realize that unless. someone. gets too many more families. before right. to. see. how the survivor i'm looking good thank you thank you so much yeah unless the both of you i'm. the democratic candidate for congress in the first district i was honored. except the invitation to be part of that with my name st 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 as larry can agree with him so much so that you just got out of the army myself i was after the army for five years one of the rank of a sergeant i'm here to support ourself that's really support the cause and i
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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 put a stick under a car or they want you to do this supporting the troops supporting a change. in
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