shand your good lord turns into satan to full fitness athon and day turns into night shift selfishly like that. i. you have the obligation to refuse to leave but when it's when you no longer believe in what you are doing and you can no longer stand up for your actions you must refuse. it. if you don't have a good reason to go to war. if you don't have a purpose if you don't feel that you're doing something noble. if you don't believe deep within yourself that you fighting for freedom if you don't believe deep within yourself that you're fighting for democracy. if you don't believe that you're fighting. to make the world a safer place and you're left without a purpose you're nothing but my mercenary. and that's why i'm sad not to go back to my unit in iraq because i completely disagree i think it's worse and more on criminal and i don't want to be a part of it. but . when you're a soldier. basically what makes you a soldier in legal terms is the fact that you sign a contract one month once you steve sign a contract. you are supposed to do everything they tell you to do you're supposed

the only thing that enabled me to cross the gulf from pronto freedom aileelone was that shand josh wanted with their hearts for my suffering to end. they showed nothing but joy by my release and that, more than anything is testament to the selflessness and beauty of their spirits. i had many concerns while i was in prison about my health. and thankfully the doctors in oman have reassured me i am physically well. as we say in arabic, thanks be to god. shane and josh don't deserve to be in prison one day longer than i do. we committed no crime, and we are not spies. we in no way intended any harm to the iranian government or its people. and believe a huge misunderstanding led to our detention and prolonged imprisonment. shane, josh, and i had no knowledge of our proximity to the iran/iraq border when we were hiking at the waterfall, a popular tourist site frequented by local families in iraqi kurdistan. if we were indeed near the iran/iraq border, that border was entirely unmarked and indistinguishable. though my friends and i never intended or chose to go to iran, the tragedy of our impris

and i blame myself for that because i was in the grn room where shand i were giving a speech and beforen you go out there, why do you see just the people that legalization of drugs ought to be studied. and she said, are you sure i ought to do that? i said, well, you and i agree it ought to be studied. make sure you don't say it oug to be legalized, just that it should be studied. and so we agreed that she should say that. she went out and said that, and all hell broke loose. [laughter] >> and i can say steady coming anybody is willing to study. and the study part never got, you know, that there can whether she believed in congress and schools, you know, she's better off. in any case, in any case, i just think that a lot of us in the african-american community jumped on the bandwagon and opposition to legalization. even though of the iact. some members of the august body, the house of representatives, and congressional black caucus jumped up and down and screamed and yelled about not doing it. and also we first our talk about changing the penalties for crack and powder, the differential.