our guest is phil donahue as we remember tomas young.s the nation marks veterans day, we remember tomas young who died just weeks shy of his 35th brick a -- birthday. his fifth day in iraq, tomas young's unit came under fire. he was left paralyzed, never to walk again. in 2008, he appeared on democracy now! we had just come back from the winter soldier hearings in maryland were soldiers testified about the war. had a fewose soldiers days before been in austin at sxsw and they had seen the release of "body of war." andlked to tomas young asked him to talk about the response to the film and what it meant to him. well, it is been an amazing honor to travel the country with this music that i'm putting out ,n this album and the movie that it is been an amazing experience to make. and to reach out to soldiers that are speaking out against this war and to try to touch lives on an individual basis has been an incredible experience. but right off the bat, i have to address something that dick cheney said yesterday. >> maybe we have a clip of what

once home to rosie odonnel, phil donahue and the original jeopardy.e devil, this placce is a garden of eden. you have a dark serpent. and devil, devil we will not eat your poisoned apples. devil, i cast you out. [ cheers and applause ] he's gone. once again, he's gone. [ cheers & applause ] and i feel very confident, knowing the rule of threes that he will not return. vincent van gogh, pablo picasso, leonardo da vinci all great artists and all dead. but tonight we have with us the greatest living painter, please welcome sherman williams. [ laughter ] thank you, mr. williams. i thank you, our living room thanks you. folks i'm humbled by the presence of our next guest. dirk callahan is here. dirk was the first man to clench his fist, look up at the sky, and scream "why" in anger. dirk, could you look up now and shout the line that made you famous? >> hello. [ laughter ] [ cheers & applause ] >> seth: dirk has gone through some tough times since he first screamed "why" in anger. and often he forgets what his famous line is. his famous line of course bein

phil donahue and ellen spiro did a film called "body of war" which looked at a young man, who died thisekend. looks at the white house correspondents dinner in 2005 and includes president bush joking about the missing weapons of mass destruction. >> those weapons of mass destruction ve got to be somewhere. [laughter] mope. no weapons over there. maybe over here. [laughter] >> president obama at the white thee -- president bush at white house correspondents dinner, joking, in 2005, as thousands of u.s. soldiers were dying because the pretext was weapons of mass destruction, looking under the tables of his oval office, saying no weapons there, no weapons there. >> you should never joke about serious business like that. obviously poor judgment on the president to make light of that. >> but expressing a profound truth, even if he is laughing about it. >> what we think about going into iraq, there were a series of votes in congress going back to the early 1990's, and in the united nations, that identified saddam hussein as a problem for multiple things. chemical problems was one thing. there

you had phil donahue sitting right here just a week ago saying were explaining what happened in the run-upe war in 2002, 2003. >> when he was fired -- >> when he said dissent was basically eliminated from mainstream media. has anything changed? study is, in the absolutely not. if anything, the debate is more restricted. >> how did you do the study? >> is our guest that showed up for debate and discussions that were not invited on one-on-one interviews on the sunday shows and a couple of high profile cable shows with blitzer, special report on fox news -- >> your activism of -- you are activism director of fair. , and we are going to war congress is going to debate the war this week, have people who oppose the war. i know it sounds like a radical idea, but antiwar activists are more than happy to show up on television and debate this. >> if you look act of 2002 and 2003, was the view peace activists use on television who ultimately were correct that there were no weapons of mass distraction. >> absolutely. right nowt a question about wmd's, it is, is violence the answer to this political pr