ministration washington's gross interference in the internal affairs of this latin american country is risky illegal and the possibility of large scale violence is very real one thing is certain the people of venezuela will suffer the most.

hoops. didn't really get it right when. i started out as a very conservative republican like every person in my army community and upstate new york in the fifty's. my father was a member of the john birch society he was very opposed to the new deal labor unions catholics jews and. he was actually not that unusual and my dad for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and a good boy scout of my time i was really proud of. in one

thousand sixty-six as the u.s. military began ramping up its forces in vietnam brian wilson was drafted. i enlisted in the air force for a four year program to go into the army as an indoor. and then i got my orders to become an air force sure ranger officer commanding. a unit of forty men. and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure bombing missions. and in one week. we went visited five targets. all the targets were inhabited fishing again. second. i defended.

fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet. five hundred pound bombs in china shop to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it is burned finished off i watched as far as i could walk before the bodies were a show thick i could walk any further and the found my feet. and i saw a young bean means woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are opened her eyes are just staring up i was looking at my sister. i looked into his eyes and it was all moderated or was a lie and i suspect that everything i had ever been taught was a lie. my life completely radically changed.

i do not know why i am here. i was in somebody else's village nine thousand miles from my farming village in upstate new york. oh are they doing there. are we doing there. i want before more religious that we saw the same scene then i realized i don't need to do this if these are now pct. these are mothers. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in every seat please please please please. please i said i was on the

wrong side. this is how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong saeed. jalili story and honor society student council. all conference athlete. did everything right. and was all wrong. why must this nation. and its interest and its power. for the sake of a people so far away. we fight because we must fight. if we are to live in a world. where every country can shape its all and please. to make creme fraiche believe all these years that there are enemies out there.

keep it charged to protect ourself from a young age and realize we were the enemy. during bryant's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict think recently polarize the american public. on the lord and his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were. he emerged from the military vietnam with a profound sense. to go to a country that about committing genocide. can still be with our. people . much more two of.

the officers treated. people one on the fourth of july like brian run kovac received a bronze star for valor and the purple heart after being wounded leading an attack in vietnam. even though i was paralyzed in. many ways i see that it was a blessing in disguise i had been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important in war. standing and compassion respecting the lives of each and every human being how many more bombs are we going to have to drop how many more people are going to have to die we've got to profoundly change i turn in my branch barack took work on art i locked my leg in viet nam i totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm struck by what they've got going on in l.a.

stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop. states wage its unofficial war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. the start of. we were in the course of dropping many times the tonnage of world war two yet i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing's going to bloody stale. vietnam and felt the wish to get out of concealment of this information for twenty five years has now led to the deaths of fifty thousand americans and several hundred thousand vietnamese in the last few years a couple of million over twenty years of this involvement. and i think fifty the odds have been weighted in favor of secrecy the classified department of defense

files revealed that since one thousand nine hundred forty five presidents truman eisenhower kennedy and johnson had misled congress and the public about unconstitutional military actions those beginning in the one nine hundred sixty s. included secret raids on cambodia and north vietnam richard nixon i know was to sit in much the same way with continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the work. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war. the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty. ever since the end of world war two us

presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government has overthrown sixty. craddock lee elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the driver's. millions die in these undeclared wars. years old and i was looking at. pictures in a book about the park. i

said to myself what a crazy way try to solve it. and as the years have gone by. even more bent. that seven year old. fear of communism remained at fever pitch in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . common president reagan turned his focus to the resource rich countries of central and south america central america do directly affect the security and it will be. and central america is much closer to the united states than many of the trouble spots the concerns we knew. through. the system because for one hundred years two hundred years we've taken three dollars. for every to her we've invested so it's been tremendous

source oh then go for the. for forty years the united states received first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return the u.s. government supported the dictatorship of the some most of dynasty the family used land confiscation and political repression to rule over the nicaraguan people. in one. in seventy nine the samosa was were driven out after a long war waged by the popular sandinista party led by daniel ortega. one thousand nine hundred two in an attempt to thwart president reagan's plans to overthrow the nicaraguan government congress passed the boland amendment which prohibited u.s. military aid to the contras in one thousand nine hundred four daniel ortega was elected democratically this government implemented new social services for providing free education healthcare and land reform. reagan dens used ortega's

socialist policies and economic aid received from the soviet union to start a covert war using the national security council the administration sent secret a to the mercenary soldiers known as the contras. despite the passage of the boland amendment the arming and support of the contras became the most ambitious paramilitary and political action mounted by the cia since vietnam. or changes new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help and. we've begun with the request of no no or to get water to bring people down she says look i don't care who you bring don't bring down republicans democrats but we want people to know that. their country is devastating our country. will make its manufacture to send us an

instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final larry go round lifts only the one post that. we can all middle the root signals. doing the rounds many more you don't leave the room. i don't think the numbers mean something a matter of us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happy. eighty five percent of global wealth if you want to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent flies last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and one rose to twenty thousand

dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business showed you know ford to miss the one and only boom but. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to get i when i'm serving in the war zones we literally sent thousands of people can see the war unico out where they would come home wouldn't speak in their churches right up the and so on reagan was forced to admit that the us was actively working to overthrow ortega's democratically elected government. to gain political support to the president presented the contras as a people's democratic movement as a condition of our aid i wanted system civilian control over all military forces that no human rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be

rooted out that american aid to go only to those committed to democratic principles . what i want to nag i were nineteen a six i was a johnny come lately. more than the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charring whopper chairs east arrested lead. and killed eleven eleven compas chinos. i saw five of those compazine i was coming on a horse drawn wagons to us to the rest of the cemetery and open caskets and horse drawn wagons. the main contra targets of consistently been civilian homes buses or trucks which has helped destroy any public support they may have. eight civilians were killed in this truck when ambushed by counter machine gun the sandinista government says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians

have been wounded. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adolfo calero who would earlier worked as the cia informed by before we . reached. what i discovered really for the first time my fish surely understood the pattern of u.s. policy. which was to destroy people power movements and i was one of the people i now with the power it is a fact that the united states of america legal both international and domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency centers to. people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate my there anyway the people in my opposition to the power coming out of my own country.

oh. yeah against against. those things. because the main dangers for country. yes. centuries. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian and other veterans participated in the past more than veteran peace action teams of the past teams walked through nicaragua's war torn diligence gathering proof of human rights violations by the u.s. back on tues. and so do need to stay to assume. that noting abstract is still who made the stage. in the sound of the war in central america. anything is going to happen to you it was going to be responsible

for the. well there's only one country that's a war in its united states we are there funding. terrorists and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of my sleeping with true for what we were doing. in central america. i met brian wilson. we were talking about the situation about what we could do to protest u.s. foreign policy and they're clearly in central america. with their own two door and. so door it was. it was measured her in its own people i mean i came away from their disgust to my country with doing those poor people saying they were.

so treated myself we got talking about what are we going to do. barbara we started to say you know we know there's a school injury coming up and you. know i met brian because there were a number of vietnam veterans who were alarmed about what was happening. and charlie . murphy. decided to bring it to the issues. on sunday evening president reagan urged the american people to support his aid package to the nicaraguan rebels the contras he asked for one hundred million dollars seventy million of which is military aid he called the government a cancer and nicaragua a soviet beachhead in north america and a command post for international terror you know the truth about. their fighting

and. our founding fathers and the brave men and women of the french resistance we cannot turn away. is not right. it is right versus wrong. to. me because. i was depressed the leadership. stood. up to me. and. we both were. totally. opposed to the

war. and opposition to. me for. a significant. you know this very prestigious middle of the water and in protest of u.s. foreign policy in central america. the most powerful statement that i felt that i could make outside of actually some way do you know your life well then following up on that came the fast brian. fast needs to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that the

objective of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward nicaragua. i mean we've seen some people say. i went in washington as many did to support the veterans gathered steps of the capitol and i remember the inspiration that i and others think. charles bryan. murray charged myself. they were doing something that was born. we were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing but it was bigger that we cannot wait to sell south towards central america it was latin america and of course yourself our foreign policy work and what it meant to those on the receiving. end how this is all being carried out with.

sir. so obviously over these years we want president last. we want to. not. say there. is a final song. in the face of all of justice and liberty as the fast got on to thirty five and forty days and that's. approaching the time when people began dying from fast like this and although they were being monitored they were getting weaker and weaker and we were quite alarmed by the original. question can come up relative to fasting it is. human life to take your

own. i can to my own life if i want to want to know this my life for a better is dead fast. protesters. wish led to the. identified as the best terrorist suspects. identified five hundred solitary actions around the united states that were in concert whether. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. you organizing. actions were. we were just. moved to classify the veterans fast as terrorism triggered a reaction from an unlikely source the f.b.i. agent assigned to investigate them twenty two year bureau veteran jack ryan. i

was in charge of investigating for the f.b.i. . foreign counterintelligence and i get a lead that says investigate. for their fasting on the steps of the capitol jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for a life. other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out who group better and faster a wife and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statute. concluded that the fasters were not. and refused to investigate further. under review bureau just came down on me with. the shotgun that i was fired ten months shy of getting

a pension but they came down. to those of you who voted for the i want to say. yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than. bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of them. the idea that we were terrorists. was is ridiculous. and a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. you know i mean i do it you know where you know it isn't. on t.v. it's one of. those whom you know most of.

us it was not a. good month but you. raise them please the ways but no i did my best to you guys in the white. house. needs the media this is you know. this is one of those. these you. know you know. attempted force regime change in venezuela brought to you by the trumpet ministration washington's gross interference in the internal affairs of this latin american country is risky you neagle in the possibility of large scale violence is very real one thing is certain the people of venezuela will suffer the most. we see a. good jump from i thought china's into to tell terrorism it was did jump from

thought crime to face crime you know facebook should rename itself as face crime because they are assisting in a baby this some move toward totalitarianism and the question i guess is why why now why it is i'm wearing its ugly head in america at this time of the. united states can always head a. new. tax on other country's. economic sanctions or are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is play some. countries and talking about. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that

country. we have a responsibility for the hate. and so we need to make rules for the rest of. us without us there will be. british m.p.'s approve the braggs it amendment to renegotiate the backstop with ireland which could change the course of teresa mayes divorce plan. the u.s. intensifies its half is to oust a venezuela's president to imposing crippling sanctions on the state told giant and handing control of some financial assets to the leader of the opposition will

continue to use all of our diplomatic and economic tools.