let's go live now to richard becker of the anti war on so coalition thank you for joining us on the program mr baca now the u.s. led coalition is accused of having killed a number of civilians in the write a campaign but the u.s. is disputing this data from amnesty international what do you think. well there's a long history of the u.s. military denying that it has responsibility for what are obviously casualties that have been caused by their banning often indiscriminate bombing and it appears that in iraq and there was a great deal of indiscriminate bombing that took place but then afterwards we hear like we heard a little bit earlier the usual. claim or pretext that well the the people they were fighting against were using civilians as human shields or something like that i mean the people who live there they're not human shields they live they live in iraq and they live in these other places that have been targeted by u.s. bands all over the middle east from libya to iraq and the casualties have been astounding and very little known in the west if we take the real casualties of banning

for the victims of those strikes we spoke to international law attorney jennifer breeden and richard becker of the antiwar ansa coalition they told us washington's investigations into civilian casualties have been inadequate. i do think that this is one comment that should have been really unfolded more there should have been given in more detail on how is that how is that that we can't count the victims why wouldn't we be able to what is happening that we can't count the victims when you've seen an air strike up in close in person can level a house and these are these are very serious airstrikes and so there might be bodies that aren't found there might be people that aren't found and even of the limbs or bodies are parts they are found and of course this is very unfortunate and difficult especially during a time of war but it is a very disconcerting statement if he doesn't explain the meaning of that the fact that they're not going to know how to identify what they found in the rubble where airstrikes of that magnitude are concerned i remember in the first u.s. war on a rare that after th

. >> my name is richard becker. i'm a local coordinator. it should be a national holiday. i would hope that the board, today is not going to pass a resolution declining the treatment of children along the border, and then vote in favor of this building. [applause] you know, if you travelled down -- i lived in the mission for 37 years. we are very close. i live a couple blocks away. when you travel down mission street now, there are scores, at least 60 or 70 shut down businesses, interspersed with the expensive restaurants. that's what this form of development has brought about. and is not only that, the soaring rents, the number of people who are homeless, you know, we hear that we are supposed to combat the blue wave to rescue us from this despicable administration in washington. but the blue wave swept over san francisco many, many years ago. it swept over the state of california too. and yet we have soaring rents, and more and more homeless people every week. people are being driven out of their homes. you know, robert tillman says he will see you if you vote in favor o