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to teach reason why you should care about humans and. this is why you should want your only dog. but the packet watching r t live from moscow these are the top stories turkey confirms that sending armored military units towards the syrian border just days before an international meeting on the situation in syria which faces questions of credibility after iran is a sloot is. now is turning into anime's three out of four pakistanis now think of the u.s. as their photo and or has grown dramatically over civilian deaths from american drone attacks out of thousands killed in insurgency triggered by the u.s. led war in afghanistan. and its agreements between e.u. leaders plagued the bloc summit even before it starts with germany angrily
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rejecting the idea of debt sharing the move crushing the hopes of spain and italy two of the country's worst hit by the crisis. pop next a special report of a mexican father and he is fired against the u.s. military and its cross border recruitment policy. then i made everybody ready. for. you know.
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that if you were going up to san francisco you will walk about fifty miles a day for sixteen days from here to san francisco that's right will arrive on march twenty seventh the third anniversary of faces the staff and the fabulous part of it for. her.
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it's. the for.
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me notice that my name is fernando suarez dill so a lot of good for you i'm the director and founder of the gradual us take up piece project i'm fighting against militarism against the war and my son alberto sweat as does a lot of us died on march twenty seventh two thousand and three he was not an american citizen no he was the first american soldier from mexico to die during the invasion
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of iraq was i was. chasing. i'm fighting to avoid the next war to keep other young people with hopes and dreams the onus can swing the more his friends like my son his so saying and from being grabbed by the claws of american militarism. prism each i fight for peace he's part of the bus. to mr. and i think when you. get. the skinny guy nice big will you say let me then use plain. so many of my lap you send down your back my son died on the run don't agree you don't agree we don't have to look for other name my son isn't isn't in the arena i don't know what is crap we are going to find before
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you'll say are. you going to give me my sony if marine died in iraq and diesel fuel original films. sorry about your size but he will always be remembered to bring call yes. i repeat . independent i support of the war in my opinion to work in the necessary that i support the marine corps says specifically but belief. in what you call a feeling for through the boys. and we will serve to ensure you will often feel what i felt for the rest of us. think you are.
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if his source was an ordinary boy. after years he was mischievous. like to tease his sisters but he loved them a lot. less good he. wanted to be a policeman until when he was thirteen he met the military recruiters in san diego . and you. a little later told him that if he and rolled in the u.s. army later he could join the drug enforcement agency and become an international police officer in the. division doing we made the decision to
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move to the us under pressure from pesos and olivier the only way. you could get it wanted to join the u.s. army. i just thought of this you see we sold our home and our laundering business in tijuana and we started a new life here because i don't and keith. is she said but he exercised kept his weight studied to get good grades and then when it's going to consume me. for going to a recruiter told him if he served for just one year then i love it qualify for the d.n.a. . so i finally give my consent to feed him and he enlisted when he was seventeen and a half of the sea james who made you. think
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he was a camp pendleton when nine eleven happened to give you. what you like thousands of other parents about it we thought there will be a war a dose of dexterous trash bins and. the middle of february first he said to my father in four days i'm leaving for iraq . as an embedded journalist in his unit i met his views on the very first day of the war going to go back. he was part of a two man sniper team just hours before the invasion to climb to guard tower in the
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kuwait iraq border search for a rocky mine layers on the other side. has been of use or. and you get your. guy did. exactly one week after we shot this video zeus was killed when he stepped on an unexploded u.s. artillery. place but today i want to tell you about my son hey source or so i did you might identify with that unless you're he was born here and t o y n a s d went to los
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alamos grade school i and a father moved out of that he enlisted with the marines before september eleventh of maybe. you'll do it defeated i had to give my written consent because he was just seventeen in the house he made up a nice get out that he got that's the legal age for in rome and in the u.s. army he made the iraq war began on march twentieth and you are. giving get on the twenty eighth just eight days later and i think the three soldiers came to see me yeah i don't it's one of those i mean guys and it's going to you. you know they called me at work and i came home. and they said mr suarez your son is a hero but you know he died tonight in the battlefield they were iraqi soldiers shot him in the head. i swear to those words destroyed my life.
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but that is the a three days later a journalist called me. for you said mr suarez they lied to you and your son wasn't killed by the enemy so he was killed by friendly fire explains what happened. face. it is during the night of march twenty sixth. planes struck and twenty thousand cluster bombs a meeting. or. you see it on march twenty seventh my son's unit marched on baghdad. and he stepped on an american cluster bomb. i mean nobody's paying me to talk to you it doesn't matter what i do will never come back. we need my grandson will never
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see his father again. but in each of your faces i see hey so. it was he visited more than five hundred schools around the world. because to go the next generation at the us. must have your say dennis only you can save your life because but a soreness get put inside a vessel broke every that. good thank you thank. you for this. to. end the war now. we have walked from tijuana to demand a ban on the dishonest school recruiting. stop the killing of young
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latinos. people of santa ana i am going to march to come together as one voice i have no more fear no more fear you have the power. i. thank. us i thank you so much my fight goes beyond the iraq war when the young people should stay in school the moon the fish when he knows who i am shouldn't become soldiers and fight for calls noble or not already legal or illegal he got a. report that this is just these young people should not end up like his. going to be nothing to be read will be.
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i. wish them were on day four of the peace march that we began in tijuana on sunday. so you can see if you will was. ten to fifteen miles a day. everyone is welcome to remote just latinos everyone who supports peace i start coming up to the but. thank you thank you who. thank.
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god people around the world are very interested in us and chicanos and she gun us why because a lot of us are fighting and dying in iraq right now a lot of our party and is a you all may know are in the military. we work hard to create jobs so that latino's don't have to serve in the u.s. army i said recently that we try to tell the truth about military service. because the recruiters painted distorted picture of it the movie. will be in the new york so big business it is going to. sleep through his or literature and chicano studies about the mexican americans in
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california. and i meant for non those warres del sol law in two thousand and three just after his son's death we will. that's when we begin to work on ways to counter military recruitment. i mean this means a lot somy because i'm a vietnam vet. a slave it on the vietnam. look is done was in one nine hundred ninety doring the clinton administration the military realized there were a lot of young latinos and they could target for recruiting and in most books the most on us in quantity. so knows latinos but as one of them because. you could give iraq war put pressure on the pentagon to step up recruiting and call dark work force not be. back because so they targeted people without immigration
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papers. document albums i can escape and. i move a lot of kids arrived without papers but they grew up here but ok santiago new cells will need a clue so on they went to school here that he was. they're bilingual and bicultural somebody who died was a lesser squillaci as schools must give recruiters their students' names and addresses and phone numbers to the and there's a lot of meat that was. the less is willing to sink in if they refuse and they lose their federal funding. so the pentagon has direct access to all these young people. that there is a less is one part of the. history there is no
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family privacy. the recruiters call them up every night the run meant they lost brothers he spun out latino parents are up against recruiting drives all over this country in a place. that well. i was was. i. was. one of the most but i'll second where in front of san ysidro high school just three miles from. me yes they left. and military have an office inside our uniforms. don't.
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get it here ninety percent of the students are latinos. i did this of c.s.a. stand in the instructors encourage the kids to train as junior reserve officers. that if he is on that that means you're going to end recruiters finish the job in listing them in the arm. me it's him out of point about a slogan is using data and other hits to. pentagon figures tell us that latino's and african-americans estime serve in the lower ranks of the u.s. military said reese's meet that is. the entry will be medals among the first soldiers to die at least three were hispanic spano and premier the first marine killed in iraq there was a guatemalan not a u.s. citizen.
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on a died for like total died for a war that should never have been fought for a cause that never existed. and for an enemy that was never there. when total left here is a young adult he went to the states looking for a change in exact status and he looked for a better job better life. what tono was always looking for was family ever since i took tono in that seven years old he had this whole inside is hard that he was looking for family and it was it was it was it was believing in his heart because he was so. longing for his mother and for a father who loved him for his sister who had gotten separated with i think total fell for the whole idea of joining the marines you know be one be proud be you know fall in love will give you a family. not only was he one of the first americans to die his killed by friendly
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fire. tony was a very smart boy who was a genius i mean he really was tonal was a genius tono was creative thoughtful pensive he wrote. one of the most incredible kids i've ever raised in raising eighteen thousand. my concern. was to get this good looking kids' health back to get him back into school and to me it was obvious he was living on the streets get
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him off the streets. the boys every now and then as i've been raising them through all the years they say wouldn't it be great to go to the states and i say no you're not going to get a visa you don't have land you don't have bank accounts you don't have a job you don't have family they're not going to give you a visa make your future here. and i always discourage that because it's very very dangerous and once you're there you're going to get the dirtiest lowest paying unskilled jobs that nobody else wants make you future here wait to hear what. tono threw out to me a couple trial balloons that they were going to split and i said don't neither couple trial balloons don't. next thing i know where his tone i haven't seen him for a couple days. he takes. you probably hitchhiked up to the mexican border illegally crosses the next of kin border from guatemala into mexico and
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keeps going. on to the. next thing i know i'm in my office in bismarck north dakota and should my on line a comb my yahoo account news flash first soldier killed the squad i'm on or. hope i didn't know. click on it comes up good looking. for centanni of materials. i just sent back and even just sat back a shocking you think and. why did you do this why did you join the military why didn't you ask me why did you get killed. another heartbreak the funerals coming. i'm disinvited from the funeral. i'm disinvited from the
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funeral. everybody he grew up with tonal who knew tone of who are friends of tonal nobody's let him play who's at tunnels funeral. dignitaries say oh so the people from the ambassadorial circle ministers officials the government people people who didn't know him. they were friends on behalf of precious little george w. bush only half were grateful a show that is well over two percent you were different to forgivable last year was naturalization given in recognition of your brother's bravery and the sacrifices healing for me. now i'm thinking there's just flash of anger isn't thinking you know mr ambassador. that's right i raised this boy and you're telling me i can't go to my son's funeral i've got a file of letters that i've sent to you in which this boy is calling me dear daddy dear papa you don't love your son tony. if you're disinviting me from this funeral
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