tv [untitled] November 7, 2012 11:30pm-12:00am EST
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i think now it's very obvious and clear and i have no doubt that donald rumsfeld me god forgive him dick cheney and george bush and the other people who have been responsible for the deaths of these tens of thousands of people americans iraqis and other nationalities tens of thousands if not over one hundred thousand people they are responsible for that because they lied because they wanted a war for economic reasons for political reasons for popularity reasons and maybe in george bush's case for family reasons. united states right now it's not beating its recruiting targets. we have walked through some neighborhoods down here in guatemala tens of thousands of young able capable boys girls men and
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women. give them the opportunity to come fight for us for five years and here's your green card. and lot of them are going to say yes. they think if they go to the united states they're going to find this beautiful lush lovely land no problems no one employment no violence no poverty. and sell that story create that image and you're going to have lines willing to take the risk to get into heaven like that. and as long as people are willing to pay illegally low salaries somebody will go illegally to take that job. who do you think is building the wall between mexico and california. giving stateside contractors at fourteen dollars an hour paying off . half the workers are probably undocumented or tearing false documentation
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believe they come in without papers see but that is what they're welcome if they're willing to die for the united states whatever but i'd buy is this false ideals. morally this is a moral. but only a military welcome our young people many of us i think if you go again to let's remember that among the first casualties of the war around march twentieth two thousand and three. the five soldiers were latinos and three of those five three were not american citizens like my son. if you would but it won't so that raises questions that welcome their heroes. by that is if one of their parents who work in the fields to feed the rich are not welcome frequent we deport them i knew them give me those kind of that. image of among these heroes who died in iraq with a seven hundred who are latinos who didn't have their papers when they were enlisted you need. which i just did i thank you very much.
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children lembit i don't know if that's i'm going to win when would it be i'd said stuff that somebody might miss if he died but i'm good enough that we're going to find out a job let's move everybody is jewish w. bush me this that this is the with do they the. human nature has this flaw we become indifferent we get used to things we got used to this war. but. i. don't know we're no longer surprised when the news tells us that two or twenty or one hundred soldiers have died we don't react it becomes a habit. and doesn't seem strange. i
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a checkpoint going to charge us. if we. get to from the bottom of it if i had the opportunity to go to iraq and i went there be end of november two thousand and three. what is your name is louis louis louis good t.a.'s to me. bob i bring you this message on behalf of all let you know parents we are very proud of you be very careful please. fifth. this was done by cluster bombs just for.
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a day that why did i go to iraq i was full of hate for you of the out ahead of bush because he stole my dreams are you sick. he took my son and his desk destroyed our family. up to its height of action a. tradition in the mexican tradition we plan to cross where the loved one has died. in all of the cemetery where he died we believe this is where the soul remains.
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that mother she's fighting deportation of june. is everything ok. you know but it's not so bad. oh are you fine and you. know what's happening laughing and i think the lady said parents don't have rights. are they deporting you. yes i'm at their mercy. on the list that way and then during his senior year of high school he said mom i
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want to join the army but if i do if they offer me financial help. let me go. you're listening i said there was a war. they told him they wouldn't send him to the front so soon as they kept him because he had to train first but i he set up a man on his dream was to study for a career without falling into debt with a lot of the song the recruiters choose to him day and night. they were after him at school. they don't let up until they grabbed them. one of the i spoke to the day before he died the guy was more chill they really were scared i heard it in his voice i asked if he was sick maybe said no mom it's just that they relocated us and it's very dangerous here i am which has almost gone off all the time a story and a bit worried but not sick or mostly or family or that dangerous place was baghdad
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i thought. a where on that but that's where my son died. is this icky he told me not to worry because he'll be twenty one so i knew of the. man in six months i'd have my papers yes i'd have my papers if he were alive the way i do i get the i wouldn't be waiting for these people to show some goodwill. whether. it's a real case and that each as his mother it's my right to come with a map. for me. but and his family. but we get paid a high price. forget
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it see and there must be thousands of parents in the same situation where you have the up for free and she does your usual all of these calls or you know like morally that they will be it's part of the mixed messages and immorality of the government by that is they say if a son has solid morals and money to support his parents he can pass a citizenship on to them when he's twenty one of the last. year but only hope there's a lot he only needs to be seventeen and a half to go to war if you fight for fly and die. and there are.
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you start. about. now you know about the meanness potential so much ok and if i did imagine that in iraq and i try to come in and say something but you know have time for the final part. i think you know what you know have an order for me to think you some research you believe your son probably won't be very happy with what you do and you can go and step up only when he's that if you understand you you can go and he said i didn't let you go i don't need to ask if you can go next i'm going to take you sir are you going to support the troops now you say you know but for the father to be fine but you're not running because women. care for. him now when it thank you ok now can i have on the i'm as well thank you you know just the information was just goes out of the story before making a decision you know one hundred dealerships ask about what's wrong himes you know
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say so because. rigorous and i. made out a question maybe you only fall in a school except that every cared for. when you die i never paid to fill it out of the government. will be in the dominican by the u.s. government will pay for funerals only in military cemeteries and. so i raised money to help me cover the coast of a private funeral. it's
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obvious when you finish a little number twenty thing. that's great. this is a very very poor neighborhood and this is very symbolic of what a large percentage of what tamala and also the world lives like it's a hillside slum of flood bella and what we're doing here is we bought this piece of land it was abandoned that's where they broke where they used to throw dead cats and sewage and drainage water. so. we bought into our building a boat tech school with a clinic a dining room and a dental clinic and many many classrooms seventy five percent of the kids in this neighborhood drop out before they reach the sixth grade primary. give
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them the education here so they don't have to take bad alternative and yes there are bad alternatives throwing their lives away on a senseless war is a bad alternative. so. if you could imagine. if we spent one day expenses of what's being expended on iraq. on the war how many thousands of schools could we build with just one days of war expenses how many thousands of votes could we build not just here but in every area that is like this that is how we're going to solve the problems we're not going to solve the problems by creating hatred animosity and and ill feelings
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that are going to last for generations. you know i love the united states very much i love the country very much of the conspiracy strong and i think fundamentally it is very very pure i think it is going to take the people as a body to stand up and say stop. there are people in california who are leading this effort to prevent army recruiters from going in and convince the seventeen and eighteen year olds to go wrong period gun and walk through minefields and be shot if i do so because they're not old enough and mature enough to make those decisions. enough. the corrupt and criminal bush government takes advantage of our
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latin american brothers everywhere. that's enough. thanks. patty. patty. have you had much support during the march. it's been great. we've had thousands of people behind us didn't matter sometimes we walked alone. allston three thousand demonstrators showed up they voiced their support for our message of peace and love in a better world. thank you. thank
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judge all those young men and women if lost an arm or leg you have also in jordan enormous suffering. does you. believe their stories show the stop the violence is not the road to peace is a new orleans was. is it looks or that's all we mean to say with this march we want peace thank you thank you. thank you thank. god it was. that blood. of the.
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body is in guatemala city his soul is just where he wanted to be. you know where. he told us. he put his head on my shoulder and he said looking at the stars are we going to be there someday. i mean are we going to be there someday. that's we're told it's. distances and seem a little piece of this is a symbol you made from the moment he died his memory belong to the world simply because he died in the war in pictures i mean we're trying. to see you to be so yes he's a peace symbol and would seem we're going to. was she one of the symbol of
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a young immigrant who loved his latin roots. and who died in pursuit of his dreams . but if so this is why i keep visiting schools. to be visit as many as i can look at google these data over just one of you has listened and thought it over yet a capacitive out biggest reward i could have gives me but i knew i was going to get whether you are merely given your guesses where to gallia perhaps my son's story will save your life. i would like some may laugh at me very many say i'm pathetic let me put it doesn't matter to bush i don't know if i can save just one life of those i want to go if i save two i'll be even happier about it my thang can save more that's even better let a this is my son's legacy. download
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