in one thousand nine hundred 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 a nation inductee. 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 of bombing missions. and in one week. we went visited five targets been more problems. all the targets were inhabited fishing and. second they were all 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 mees woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are opened her eyes are just staring up i was looking at my sister. and i looked into his eyes and it was all moderated or it was a lie and i suspect that everything i had ever been taught was a lie. my life simply. he radically changed.

i do not know why i am here. i was in somebody else's village nine thousand miles from my farming village and state new york. oh are they doing there. or we doing there. i want to for more religious that we saw the same scene then i realized i don't need to do this if these are not pct. these are mothers. these are small children. and if you held them that. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in receipt. i said i was on the wrong side. i said how could this be good for you i'm on the

wrong side. valedictorian honor society student council. all conference athlete. who did everything right. and it 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're in a world. where every country gets all the best players. in the training regime to leave all these years and there are enemies out there.

a charge to protect ourself from human beings and it really is we were the enemy. during bryant's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict increasingly polarized the american public. and the lord as his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military vietnam with a profound sense of alienation. 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 the bronze star for valor and the purple heart after being wounded leading an attack in vietnam. even though i was paralyzed in viet nam in many ways i see that it was a blessing in disguise i have been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important in war of an understanding 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 a profoundly change i turn in my ranch barack took work on art i locked my leg in vietnam am i totally oppose this war or carrying on over there i'm struck by what they've got going and tell. stop telling your brothers they're the traitors

stop all. night and states will wage its unofficial war for nearly a decade. nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon papers then they got the start of the bombing. i know we were in the course of dropping many times the tonnage of world war two and yet i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing's going to. vietnam and felt the wish should get out of concealment 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 knew was to sit in much the same way and was 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 centers 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 the presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government has overthrown sixteen democratically elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the drivers. millions died in these undeclared wars. were just a kid years old and i was looking at. pictures in a book about the war. i said to myself what

a crazy way try to solve it. and as the years have gone by i. became even more and bent. that seven year old. fear of communism remained at fever pitch in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . common around president reagan turned his focus to the resource rich countries of central and south america central america to directly affect the security and it will be number one. 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 a hundred years two hundred years. three dollars. for every dollar we invest so it's been tremendous. source code for their nose is

for forty years the united states received first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return the us government supported the dictatorship of the some most of dynasty in the family used land confiscation and political repression to rule over the nicaraguan people. in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the samosa was were driven out after a long war waged by the popular sandinista party led by daniel ortega. one nine hundred eighty two in an attempt to thwart president reagan's plans to overthrow the nicaraguan government the congress passed the boland amendment which prohibited u.s. military aid to the contras in one thousand nine hundred for daniel ortega was elected democratically this government implemented new social services for providing free education healthcare and land reform. reagan bens 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 to aid 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 power in the terry and political action mounted by the cia since vietnam. ortega's new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help and. we've begun with the request of no no or tell us what to bring people down she says look i don't care who you. republicans democrats but we want people to know who. their country is devastating our country.

i mean i didn't know you know you're such. times you don't know this he. doesn't want to know most of us to be in yours and you know it was not a. good not like you know. please don't believe the ways that i did my best religion as though i'd. look. nice i mean this is you know. this is one of those. these get. to know some new you know you can cause. you know world a big part of new things a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter

we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. as you read the stand and hear how awesome they. are all of whom one has. said i don't run the show but there are rather democrats i thought the fourth down i don't care that. only and that compared to my next question let me cut and kick and. i don't think there's a channel for all that it yeah i think that. we don't want then

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for spreading her. thanks for everything. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to i wound up serving in a war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war. when they would come home in their churches right up to. reagan was forced to admit that the u.s. was actively working to overthrow ortega's democratically elected government. to gain political support the president presented the contras as a people's democratic movement as a condition of our aid i would insist on civilian control over all military forces but no human rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be rooted out that american aid go only to those committed to democratic groups. what i

want to know god when one thousand and six i was a johnny come lately. more than the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming whopper chairs each to rest early and killed eleven eleven compazine oh. i saw five of those compazine i was coming on 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 is help destroy any pup. of course they may have. eight civilians were killed in this truck when ambushed by culture machine gun the sandinista government says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians have been wounded kidnap. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by

a civilian adults. who would earlier worked as the cia informed by before we. treat prisoners. or i discovered really for the first time my fish surely understood the pattern. to destroy people our movements and i was one of the people i know where the power is a fact that the policies of the united states of america are you know a legal both international and domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency center stood by people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate mine a solitary with the people and my being an opposition to the power coming out of my own country.

against fear against. those things me down with because its main danger is prayer country. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans participated in more veteran peace action teams of the pat teams walked through nicaragua's war torn villages gathering proof of human rights violations by the u.s. back country. right. so do need to stay to school in. strict he made his station. in the sound of war in central america. anything is going to happen to you is going to be responsible for the. well there's only one country that's

a war in its united states we are there foreign. terrorists and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of my. true for what we were doing and. brian wilson. we were talking about the situation about what we could do to protest u.s. foreign policy and there clearly in central america. where the. door and. the door of this. measure occur in its own people i mean i came away from that discussion to my country with doing this to poor people. who were. so treated by so we had to argue more what are we going to do.

we started to say you know we know there's a school coming up and you. know i met brian because there were a number of vietnam veterans who were alarmed about what was happening in central america and charlie let brian wilson murphy and george my so decided to bring attention to the issues of the u.s. foreign policy in central america particularly again. on sunday evening president reagan urged the american people to support his aid package to the nicaraguan rebels the contras he asked for a high. million dollars seventy million of which is military aid he called to send needs to government a cancer and nicaragua a soviet beachhead in north america and a command post for international terror you know the truth about them you know who they're fighting and why they are the moral people of our founding fathers and the brave men and women of the french resistance we cannot turn away from. is

right. it is right versus wrong find what was to twenty one. hundred million dollars from the cold. i was depressed because your leadership. stood up to do it. now. down. in washington d.c. and then up to me. and. we both were. totally opposed to the war they talk to me about charlie they're. planning to do a path to the death. an opposition to the us

backed contract. before i do this right now so i decided that a significant. could be. you know those very prestigious medal of honor and in protest of u.s. foreign policy in central america. is the most powerful statement that i felt that i could make outside. actually some way do you know your life well then following a. fast need to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that the objective of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward nicaragua.

and people. i went to in washington is many did to support the veterans gathered steps of the capitol and i remember the inspirational that i and others there. charlie bryan. george myself. they were doing something that was. they were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing there but it was bigger than the crockery purcell south towards central america it was white america and of course from south. florida it had work and what it meant to those on the receiving. and how this was all being carried out with. this. president class.

congress not. against communism. in the face 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 there were usual. things. the question can come up relative to fasting is is it a human life to take your own. i can do my own life or if i want to do one of this my life for

a. fast. approaches to. wish. the best to cherish. five hundred. states were in concert with us. it was a conspiracy conspiracy to change us. we were just old fashioned. the move 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. . intelligence and i got

a lead that says investigate. for. their fasting on the steps of the capitol jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for a life. and also those of other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out who was this group veterans fast for a life and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statutes. concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and then refused to. you. just. get i was fired. but. those of you who voted for the i want. to receive in.

order. terrorist. and a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. the united states has always had a. chance to use and it's a tax on other countries. economic sanctions or are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries

a 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 head. and we need to make rules for the rest. because without us there will be. financial survival guide i don't find i've caused on a futures. almost five. i suppose some financial future. watch guys. and i think is a leader still must execute.

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whole existence to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. have to be right to be for us that's what before three of them or can't be good. interested always in the wives of our. precious. little trump again says c. doesn't rely on sending troops to venezuela to support the opposition leader why and why does that have to washington post new sanctions on president the doura it will do us the back off and stop seeking regime change how. the true.