first on the eve of the air war and then a second time when the ground war appeared imminent.lled bush repeatedly on the telephone during this later date in fact hoping to save lives, hoping to save his former ally in baghdad, and to think of it as well to keep the world from seeing to vivid demonstration of americans hegemonic power. one can fairly say in fact the gorbachev called so often at he badgered bush. hectoring him nightly with phone calls that grew well into the two-hour plus ridge. this was not the brightest moment of the relationship. to be blunt, bush was annoying the heck -- excuse me, gorbachev was annoyed the heck out of bush. the president at this time was tired. he was stressed. he was about to send hundreds of thousands of soldiers into combat, risking more hundreds of thousands of civilians in the process, and he was frankly tired of gorbachev's calls. so tired in fact that one point he began yelling at gorbachev. and he didn't stop. he yelled and yelled and yelled. now, i have to tell you, it's hard from a transcript at determine when someone is yelling,

if you're going to war against iraq. that's right up to. thirty million people spanning one hundred cities around the world marched in synchronization around the invasion against the invasion of iraq it was the largest antiwar protest in the history of the world but despite this monumental display of unified force against the war the us government turned a blind eye and as we know the subsequent war and occupation that followed what ensued for the next ten years causing countless human beings to be maimed traumatized over four million iraqis displaced and the deaths of over one million human beings today although the ground troops have allegedly left iraq and afghanistan the bombing campaigns haven't stopped in fact they've actually increased and now the drones have expanded to countries like yemen somalia and pakistan so where are the masses now were the millions of people in the streets demanding an end to the bloodshed and perpetual war joining me now to discuss the state of the antiwar movement in the us is angela keaton director of ope

three by attacking iran god forbid he believes in peace through diplomacy not through war oh my god so let's get back to that. what are these speeches that people are so concerned with uncovering while one that's caused quite a stir was given at a gala for the american arab anti-discrimination committee or the a.b.c. and when the video was finally released there was really nothing noteworthy said however it didn't stop the a.t.c. from being harassed and defamed by right wing media who called the organization controversial with possible terrorist ties in response the a.b.c. released a statement saying quote rather than questioning the integrity of arab americans it's time to question the integrity of those that perforate hate and division amongst all americans while put but despite this non issue the israeli lobby succeeded they successfully exerted their influence on enough senators and media to cause the vote to stall and now they're given even more time to dig up as much dirt as they can hoping to prove that a hateful isn't a loyal enough to israel to be defense secretary. but you

one vendor may speed up the war and bring the war to an end sooner. in my prolong the war and make it even more bloody. >> the book mentioned by john whitcomb of code speaks directly to the question you're asking. one of the points that the peacemaking is that in order to find, to embed emancipation and the loss of board, to justify it, lieber and the lincoln administration had to expand the powers of the union on the army in its attack on civilians. you have to broaden the definition of military necessity to include going on to plantations and taken with the southerners due to their property away from them, but nonmilitary homes and farms in the south. the paradox is to get emancipation legalize, you have to expand the parameters of war in ways that we may not like. >> there's another indirect result. emancipation proclamation calls for the enlistment of african-american soldiers stops the confederacy from exchanging prisoners and see you would've seen a set of skyrocketing of death in andersonville because of the lack of exchange directly as a resul

i'll just go over a few more numbers the us became embroiled in the vietnam war well and. nine hundred sixty four president johnson reported that the review enemy's boats attacked two u.s. warships in the gulf of tonkin off the vietnamese coast newspapers including the washington post and new york times among how most other publications ran headlines about the attack which helped to galvanize the public to support the us to enter the war i don't blame the public for supporting retaliation against a country attacking their own however there is a slight problem with the story it simply is false literally it never happened it was a made up a vent which took decades to come to light a false flag event might be a foreign notion to you you might be grappling with the fact that this country would kill its own citizens to advance an agenda but one has to look no further one of the former defense secretary robert mcnamara under j.f.k. proposed under a now declassified document known as operation northwoods northwoods is probably one of the most sinister plans ever devised at least

the war lasted only a few months and the cease fire in the treaty of paris. however an overlooked aspect of this treaty is that it officially granted the us government its first overseas empire having acquired the territories of puerto rico guam and the philippines formally in the possession of spain but if we want to truly give justice to the memory of the main we should consider all the facts see in one thousand nine hundred seventy six american naval investigators concluded that the inferno that sank the maine and killed more than half its crew was caused by the ship's ammunition stockpile igniting the investigation proved once and for all the spanish were not to blame. it is interesting that an entire war could be launched against another country based entirely on false pretenses we're no strangers to this notion of starting wars on lies one just has to look at the iraq war to see that this is a common occurrence but did you know that there's actually a long history of government staging events or provocations and blaming them entirely on other countries

we fought hard, and with others we won the war.e lifted the yoke of address and tyranny of a small country that many american had never heard of and we asked nothing in return. we're coming home now, proud, confident, heads high. there is much that we must too. at home and abroad, and we will do it. we are americans. may god bless this great nation, the united states of america. thank you all very much. [applause] ♪ >> dr. jeffrey engel. [applause] >> howdy. >> howdy. >> i got to tell you, i miss a lot of things about aggie land. it's been two years since i've been back. i miss the students itch in miss the barbecue, i miss the football. i really miss a howdy. this miss first visit back to the bush school in two and a half years and it's hard not to feel completely overwhelmed by the memories. in every possible way, the bush school provided a home. our kids were born here in college station, and it will forever be part of our lives and our history. and in fact in my mind, the school gave me nothing less than a career as well. it al

two and that led to hot war because it became a trade war then war and here's how david cameron answered. i think what he says is important no one wants to see a string of competitive devaluations always the one happened to sterling. as a result of the very deep recession here was a depreciation i don't believe that you depreciate your way to growth whatever country you are but what you should do is use the benefit when that and there's a structural change to make sure you increase your competitiveness and that is what britain needs to do well financial illiteracy runs through number ten downing street with david cameron you know central banks are caught be serving two masters they're printing trillions of dollars and yan's and pounds at the same time central banks of two thousand and nine every verse a forty year trend they're buying massive amounts of gold and these two things are not going to finish together one is going to win one is going to live and the gold market saying the gold market is going to when the bond market now in these countries looks as though it's hit the wall is st

civil war. first of all, as the worst central cause. secondly, as a crucial source of military power deployed during that war. and third, slavery's erosion during the war and its destruction, both of those things, as an eventual union goal. the destruction of slavery as an eventual conscious, deliberate union goal. so let's start with cause. as you may know any recent national survey, hal have all te people, have all those americans who were polled denied that slavery was the main cause of the u.s. civil war. and that view is apparently gaining ground, not losing ground because among younger people polled, those below 30 years of age, fully three out of five tonight slavery centrality to the wars origin. but in 1860-61, leaders of both the union and confederacy knew and said that slavery and escalating national dispute over slavery's future was precisely what was leading most of the southern states to break from and breakup the united states. thereby initiating the costliest war in the country's

two and that led to hot war because it became a trade war then war and here's how david cameron answered. i think what he says is important no one wants to see a string of competitive devaluations always the one happened to sterling. as a result of the very deep recession here was a depreciation i do believe that you depreciate your way to growth in whatever country you are but what you should do is use the benefit when that and as a structural change to make sure you increase your competitiveness and that is what britain needs to do well financial illiteracy runs through number ten downing street with david cameron you know central banks are caught be serving two masters they're printing trillions of dollars and yan's and pounds at the same time central banks of two thousand and nine every verse a forty year trend they're buying massive amounts of gold and these two things are not going to finish together one is going to win one is going to live and the gold market saying the gold market is going to when the bond market now in these countries looks as though it's hit the wall is startin

investigation of these drone wars or drone murders as crimes. there are several bases in africa there's been no we've known for quite some time that there was this base in saudi arabia we didn't know exactly where the washington post is furious at the new york times for having identified the location of the base in saudi arabia because there was an informal arrangement not to what else if they informally arranged not to tell us and what if they formally arranged not to tell us and why because these are policies that the american public would begin to oppose if they understood them better and the rest of the world is out ahead of us these are not operations that are making us more safe can you talk about due process what's happening with due process so it's a pillar of western civilization has been through in the way of sensually. well i i was good wow let that put in a few words there david go ahead jump in. i missed knowles comment i'm sure i agreed with it but you know i think the television comedian in the united states stephen colbert got it

constitution under the united nations charter in most cases war itself is a crime and so calling it war it shouldn't be an argument to excuse murder but i think no it's exactly right that they're also talking about it in terms of it least rhetorically they talk about it in terms of criminal justice where on able to capture this individual this individual is committing a crime we therefore are going to murder him and or her and anyone nearby and it's talked about as if it were criminal justice but this is an operation out of the white house without judicial oversight without legislative oversight without public input without. compliance with international treaties or bodies i mean this is absolute lawlessness and the fact that you know a memo that you know of an absolutely absurd memo is now being presented to a handful of representatives and senators but not to the u.s. public that that should make it ok with us is is an outrage this is a this is a white house that made public some of the more laughable memos from the previous administration so what about these once you know it is it lo

the civil war and the civil war can be stopped. through the negotiations on the basis of the geneva agreement so if we have that resolution then we'll have an election what kind of an election depends on the results of the of the negotiations his future in his own hands at this point should it be in his own hands and talking about assad i don't want to talk about that let me ask you one more question about assad do you think the only problem is in assad and he not stepping down that is the. lot of people who are opposed to or who are involved in this conflict in syria think that the president is a serious important part of the problem this is a fact and very pretty every day do you believe that's the problem doesn't matter what i believe doesn't matter what you believe either you talk directly to the american government they believe that he's the problem do you think it's an oversimplistic approach or no i'm sure the realty of you americans and you ask them but do you speak with the syrian government and assad directly as you speak

and in a few minutes of currency wars on the g. twenty summit and the latest edition of the kaiser report. well. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered. choose your language. we can without any financial system still some. choose to use the consensus you. choose to tell us that you think are great to. choose the stories that impact your. chance to access to often. you. know. you. guys are this is the kaiser report you know if you show up to a gunfight with a knife chances are you're going to have your guts ripped out shot dead in the street like a dog show up to a currency war with paper like mervyn king or ben bernanke here these other central bank clowns and you'll also be eviscerated gunned down in the street by the gold vigilantes and that's a good thing stacey yes max over the past few weeks we've seen the coming of the showdown at the ok currency corral right you've seen very same d.c. wanted dead or alive essentially against the u.s. dollar right there in the

investigation of these drone wars or drone murders as crimes. there are several bases in africa there's been no we've known for quite some time that there was this base in saudi arabia we didn't know exactly where the washington post is furious at the new york times for having identified the location of the base in saudi arabia because there was an informal arrangement not to what else if they informally arranged not to tell us and what if they formally arranged not to tell us and why because these are policies that the american public would begin to oppose if they understood them better and the rest of the world is out ahead of us these are not operations that are making us more safe talk about due process what's happening with due process so it's a pillar of western civilization. has been through in the way of sensually well i i was a good one how to put in a few words there david go ahead jump in. i miss knollys comment i'm sure i agreed with it but you know i think the television comedian in the united states stephen colbert got it right whe

he was wrong about how the iraq war would go. he was wrong about how the iraq war would end. early on he was not just a yes vote for the iraq war. he was an enthusiastic proponent of how good an idea it would be to start that war in iraq. it was a bad idea to start that war in iraq. we can say that now, right? is it controversial to say that the iraq war was a bad idea? aren't we sort of all on board with that now? at the outset of the iraq war john mccain, of course, was not alone. john mccain and chuck hagel both supported the iraq war initially, as did people like john kerry and hillary clinton and joe biden and dianne feinstein and chuck schumer and 24 other democrats in the senate and all but one of the republicans in the senate all voted yes. and yeah, there were democrats who were against the war from the beginning. and that one republican, lincoln chaffee. but there were enough democrats who said yes and went along with it. that's part of the reason the war happened. the difference over time is that republican chuck hagel and most of the democrats who were wrong about

military during the war.lection of documents called the vietnam war crimes working group collection. and this was a taskforce that was set up in the pentagon. and it was designed to track war crimes cases in the wake of the exposure of the my lai massacre. >> where 500 men, women, and children were murdered by american g.i.s. >> that's right. the military basically, what they wanted to do was make sure they were never caught flatfooted again by an atrocity scandal. so in the army chief of staff's office, there were a number of army colonels who worked to track all war crimes allegations that bubbled up into the media that gis and recently returned veterans were making public. and they tracked all these. and whenever they could, they tried to tamp down these allegations. >> your book is very important to me. i was there at the white house in the 1960s when president johnson escalated the war. my own great regret is that i didn't see the truth of the war in time didn't see what was happening there. and yet, as

movement against the war on iraq and i founded the respect party which came out of the great antti warmovement which organized the biggest demonstrations the british britain has ever seen in its history indeed five times bigger than the next biggest. height and we're almost at the anniversary of that demonstration february fifteenth when we had two millions on the streets of britain representing tens of millions of people i think in opposition to the war on iraq even before people knew what we know nor that the entire thing was built upon a tower of lies but the expulsion was another jaw of on because it was increasingly difficult and becoming impossible to remain in a party led by mr blair who is a war criminal and who should be on trial in the hague instead of swanning around the world making millions of dollars as a consultant to all sorts of grisly sovereign wealth funds of various dictatorships and exorbitant fees most often in the united states plus the fees from being a director and a consultant for many multinational corporations so it's been good for business so far as mr blis

the civil war and the civil war can be stopped. through the negotiations on the basis of the geneva agreement so if we have that resolution then we'll have an election what kind of an election depends on the results of the of the negotiations his future in his own hands at this point should it be in his own hands. and talking about assad i don't want to talk about that let me ask you one more question about assad do you think the only problem is in assad and he not stepping down that is. lot of people who are opposed to or who are involved in this conflict in syria think that the president is a serious important part of the problem this is a fact and very pretty to every day do you believe that's the problem doesn't matter what i believe doesn't matter what you believe either you talk directly to the american government they believe that he's the problem do you think it's an oversimplistic approach or no i'm sure you really interview americans and you ask them but do you speak with the syrian government and assad directly as you sp

i'll just go over a few more numbers the us became embroiled in the vietnam war well and now. hundred sixty four president johnson reported that the review enemy's boats attacked two u.s. warships in the gulf of tonkin off the vietnamese coast newspapers including the washington post and new york times among countless other publications ran the headlines about the attack which helped to galvanize the public to support the u.s. to enter the war i don't blame the public for supporting retaliation against a country attacking their own however there is a slight problem with the story it simply is false literally it never happened it was a made up a vent which took decades to come to light a false flag event might be a foreign notion to you you might be grappling with the fact that this country would kill its own citizens to advance an agenda but one has to look no further one of the former defense secretary robert mcnamara under j.f.k. proposed under a now declassified document known as operation northwoods northwoods is probably one of the most sinister plans ever devised at leas

three by attacking iran god forbid he believes in peace through diplomacy not through war oh my god so let's get back to that. what are these speeches that people are so concerned with uncovering all one that's caused quite a stir was given at a gala for the american arab anti-discrimination committee or the a.b.c. and when the video was finally released there was really nothing noteworthy said however it didn't stop the agency from being harassed and defame by a right wing media who called the organization controversial with possible terrorist ties in response the a.b.c. released a statement saying quote rather than questioning the integrity of arab americans it's time to question the integrity of those that perforating hate and division amongst all americans while put but despite this non issue the israeli lobby succeeded they successfully exerted their influence on enough senators and media to cause the vote to stall and now they're given even more time to dig up as much dirt as they can hoping to prove that hagel isn't loyal enough to israel to be defense secretary. but you know

three by attacking iran god forbid he believes in peace through diplomacy not through war oh my god so let's get back to that. what are these speeches that people are so concerned with uncovering all one that's caused quite a stir was given at a gala for the american arab anti-discrimination committee or the a.b.c. and when the video was finally released there was really nothing noteworthy said however it didn't stop the a.t.c. from being harassed and defamed by right wing media who called the organization controversial with possible terrorist ties in response the a.b.c. released a statement saying quote rather than questioning the integrity of arab americans it's time to question the integrity of those that perforating hate and division amongst all americans while put but despite this non issue the israeli lobby succeeded they successfully exerted their influence on enough senators and media to cause the vote to stall and now they're given even more time to dig up as much dirt as they can hoping to prove that a table isn't loyal enough to israel to be defense secretary. but you kno

tours in the civil war two world wars one and two the korean war even vietnam the united states had a military draft and those wars wall far shorter and more well debated in the iraq debacle coincidence i think not we need to bring back the draft our founding fathers knew its value that's why they formed a citizen based militia when george washington in his farewell address warned us to be aware of foreign entanglements he knew that his citizens militia what the day is closest to a draft was the best way to prevent us from jumping into foreign military misadventures a draft system is a great leveller when there's a draft or what our founders call those citizens militia every single american has some skin in the game fewer than one percent of americans have been touched by the wars in iraq and afghanistan fewer than one percent of americans have experienced the pain and suffering of losing a loved one a distant battlefield but if we had a draft our involvement in wars would affect everyone from main street to capitol hill the children of our nation's lawmakers would be serving in the m

now call hard war. the idea that the war would be over in just a few months, that both sides shared back in 1861, long gone now, and clearly this was a measure -- a military necessity was the phrase that was used, widespread phrase used to justify the emancipation proclamation by weakening the cop fed rissi to win the war. it was part of the process. >> in anticipation of greater bloodshed, too, for that party, and some of the skirmishes that followed. >> well, nobody in january 1, 1863, could know whether the war was going to go on for another 28 months as it did, or even longer or less. but clearly it had already gone on for almost two years, and one of the -- i think you're quite right to suggest that one of the hopes was that it would help the north to win the war sooner than -- the reaction among a lot of northern people, as well as most southern whites, was that this would prolong the war by making the southern people fight even harder because now there was much more at stake for them if they lose

the us government turned a blind eye and as we know the subsequent war and occupation that followed what ensued for the next ten years causing countless human beings to be maimed traumatized over four million iraqis displaced and the deaths of over one million human beings today although the ground troops have allegedly left iraq and afghanistan the bombing campaigns haven't stopped in fact they've actually increased and now the drones have expanded to countries like yemen somalia and pakistan so where are the masses now were the millions of people in the streets demanding an end to the bloodshed and perpetual war joining me now to discuss the state of the antiwar movement in the us is angela keaton director of operations for antiwar dot com angela thanks so much for coming on oh thank you happy so i think people realize how big these protests really war what was it about the iraq war that resonated with so many people around the world well it did resonate with people around the world but remember you know you mention that there's over three hundred cities and thirty million people

bush and cheney would have gone to war with iraq and gone to war with saddam hussein even if there wasnce at all. >> it is at worst, lies and deception. it is at best, incompetence and lack of understanding. >> a lot of people who on purpose used extreme rhetoric to push support for the war, there have been no consequences for them. >> we sit here some eight years later, 4,000 americans lost their lives. maybe 100,000 iraqis lost their lives. it cost about a trillion dollars. was it worth it? did you give the right advice? >> i think i did. if you look back at the proposition we faced after 9/11, with respect to saddam hussein we were very concerned about the prospects of terrorists like the 9/11 crowd acquiring weapons of mass destruction, biological weapons they could use on the united states. >> there is no question the media didn't do its job during the run-up to the iraq war. far too often, the press simply accepted these sweeping assertions by the highest officials in the government, without looking for the hard evidence to support it. >> was more concerned about the politics of

here's the latest news on the war on terror front u.s. drones killed three militants in pakistan's taliban controlled region of north waziristan and by militant i mean the term that the white house uses for any human being blown to pieces by a u.s. missile. not only has the potential use of drones over pakistan yemen somalia killed countless innocent civilians but the operations are planting the seeds of resentment in the us terrorism against the us among the civilian populations of these countries so what the whole day is right around the corner let's talk about what's on president obama's wish list this year my guess is that it's an upgrade of his favorite toy killer unmanned robots which is why i like to call president obama the drone carrying and today's hash tag is a drone king a phrase i coined on the show that's picking up some steam in the social media world so keep throwing that into the twitter verse john brennan's nickname is the assassination czar for god's sake and this is the guy who is ushering this country to the next phas

story no we don't we have this continuing war. on terror the president result was even stopped using that phrase bad bets good now it's time to get out of afghanistan and it's it's it's it's time so you say are you saying you support the drone strike no i'm not saying that at all i'm not saying i'm just saying and let's not pretend that you can have a clean war war is not going on and i think you know this is it has to sanitize it is and that's one of the reasons why they all. let bradley manning out of prison out of the marine brig because we need to know what's being done in our name and and we've been separated from the horrors of the war in iraq and afghanistan. it came into your living room every day at six thirty at an owner has and says it has a rag and we get to see cartoon characters mark your thoughts on this war is messy and that's why it needs to be so clearly defined nothing is more important constitutionally when the president commander in chief goes to war in the name of the people that the people most represent and

country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand and one with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping troops and you'll have nothing to worry about but general goran so also made the point the president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at a threat well being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing then joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato well that is their choice but they shouldn't be tricked into having their taxpayers pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based on totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion. you get. to go. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'd like i don't. i mean. i know that i'm going to really mess up. in the very closely. worst you are going. to find out sick of a. radio guy in a minute because i want to quote your approach to good use never seen anything like

constitution under the united nations charter in most cases war itself is a crime and so calling it war that shouldn't be an argument to excuse murder but i think no it's exactly right that they're also talking about it in terms of at least rhetorically they talk about it in terms of criminal justice where on able to capture this individual this individual is committing a crime we therefore are going to murder him and or her and anyone nearby and it's talked about as if it were criminal justice but this is an operation out of the white house without judicial oversight without legislative oversight without public input without compliance with the international treaties or bodies mean this is absolute lawlessness and the fact that you know a memo that you know of an absolutely absurd memo is now being presented to a handful of representatives and senators but not to the u.s. public that that should make it ok with us is is an outrage this is a this is a white house that made public some of the more laughable memos from the previous administration you know what about these once you know it

the next war becomes inevitable. yes i think very little has been learned the conditions are always different from one here historical period to another but the thing that's frightening now is the kind of mongrel maniacal drive regardless of consequences in the case of world war one it was to make the losing countries pay the costs of a war that everybody was responsible for without worrying that putting that burden on germany could worsen the whole situation for europe as it did the parallel today is corporations in the rich in their drive to proceed with accumulating their own wealth notwithstanding the crisis notwithstanding the bailouts they took for themselves now to make the mass of people pay in an endless source thirty four at all in order to hold on to their wealth to not be taxed this is driving the mass of people the whale the verse side treaty did in a way that will explode because it's not sustainable and it's not tolerable and the move to the left and now the move to the right which is in part reaction

on lies one just has to look at the iraq war to see. that this is a common occurrence but did you know that there's actually a long history of government staging events or provocations and blaming them entirely on other countries in order to provide a pretext for war they're called false flag attacks and according to its naval warfare origins a false flag attack occurs when a government uses an elite special operations qadri to attack that nation state while falsely bearing the flag of another country or group in other words it's a self-inflicted wound used to outrage the populace and provide the necessary support and motivation for a country to attack or declare war and in fact falsehoods seem to be at the heart of major war of aggression throughout history but i'll just go over a few more numbers the us became embroiled in the vietnam war while in one thousand nine hundred sixty four president johnson reported that the review enemies both attacked two u.s. warships in the gulf of tonkin off the vietnamese coast newspapers including th

two the supposed war to end all wars ended the united states got involved in the continual warfare game first there was an increasing war spending for korea and then to ensure that global capitalism reigns supreme to enrich the all of our class of bankers corporate executives and oil barons our military intervened all around the world throughout the one nine hundred fifty s. meddling in places like iran guatemala indonesia president eisenhower knew the consequences of this faustine bargain with the devil of war and how will us away from within as he said it is one nine hundred fifty three across the veyron speech quotes every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and who are not dead those who are cold and are not closed. all that was during a time when our nation was spending roughly fifty billion dollars a year on defense we spend almost twenty times that today but eisenhower did little to renegotiate the terms of this deal which is why he used his nine hundred sixty one farewell address to warn about the

g-2 investigated ida after the war. they wanted to know--they thought she might have been a collaborator, but they were never able to prove anything. and she wanted to get to the states. they wouldn't let her, and she died in manila, one of the many, many unsung heroines of the war. c-span: how many other books have you written? >> guest: i've wri -- i wrote one book prior to this called "women at war," the story of 50 military nurses who served in vietnam. c-span: same kind of book? >> guest: a different kind of book in that it focused on all the services in the entire war, so it had a much broader scope. and this book just focused on the one band of women, one group of nurses. c-span: which book was harder on you? >> guest: they were just different. i can't say one was harder than the other. the vietnam book was harder because i was thinking -- i'm that generation, and i was thinking about my husband, michael, and all the people i knew who served there. so that had a real personal level for me. "we band of angels" was

three by attacking iran god forbid he believes in peace through diplomacy not through war oh my god so let's get back to that. what are these speeches that people are so concerned with uncovering well one that's caused quite a stir was given at a gala for the american arab anti-discrimination committee or the a.b.c. and when the video was finally released there was really nothing noteworthy said however it didn't stop the a.t.c. from being harassed and defamed by right wing media who called the organization controversial with possible terrorist ties in response the a.b.c. . the statement saying quote rather than questioning the integrity of arab americans it's time to question the integrity of those that perforated hate and division amongst all americans while put but despite this non issue the israeli lobby succeeded they successfully exert their influence on enough senators and media to cause the vote to stall and now they're given even more time to dig up as much dirt as they can hoping to prove that hable isn't loyal enough to israel to be defense secretary but you know that's p