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Here's a Link to listen to the testimony from yesterday At the KPFA Site
You can listen on the site player of KPFA at above link.
KPFA broadcasts the Winter Soldier hearing on Capitol Hill, where Iraq war veterans will speak to members of Congress about the hard realities of the US occupation of Iraq. The special hearing to the Out of Iraq Caucus will be hosted by Aimee Allison and Aaron Glantz, part of the team that recently was nominated for a Project Censored award for KPFA's coverage of the Winter Soldier gathering in March.
Or you can use other ways to listen:
Play mp3 Stream: Uses your computer's media player (24kb/s mp3).
Download this File (mp3): Download this program to your hard drive (this file is about 10.27 megabytes).
This is a four hour report on KPFA
IVAW has the C-Span Link To Watch up at their site and should have their own video soon.
McCain Uses POW Status as Sword & Shield
by jimstaro on Fri May 16, 2008 at 01:47:22 PM PDT
To add this to your diary.
by jimstaro on Fri May 16, 2008 at 01:49:33 PM PDT
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You can watch it here.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. - Tennyson
by bumblebums on Fri May 16, 2008 at 02:38:24 PM PDT
I missed the C-Span link in your comment.
Thanks.
by bumblebums on Fri May 16, 2008 at 02:39:00 PM PDT
Military & Veterans: Politics for the deserving aka Mike Bailey
by testvet6778 on Fri May 16, 2008 at 03:34:13 PM PDT
this is so important for people to see, and as you know is being ignored by traditional media.
The stories from WSI were both compelling and horrifying. And most of all heart-breaking.
Perhaps the biggest insult of all, to not even listen to our veterans. I mean, listening is free.
"Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." George Carlin, R.I.P.
by whitewidow on Fri May 16, 2008 at 04:15:45 PM PDT
Go Barack Obama
by concerned on Fri May 16, 2008 at 06:49:26 PM PDT
This confirms all the silences and uhhhs and ohs and incomprehensible responses I've received from my son since last November and a sense that he is in a position to be unable to speak but I sense that something is wrong, he has said so but that he will only talk with me when he gets home.
My Son has in the meantime asked me to help his interpreter "V" to get out via the US program after serving 5 tours. I have talked to V and met another interpreter who actually made it to the United States and endeavor to do so because my son asked me to do so.
My son wishes to honor V as this Iraqi young man is in danger, and also because of the extent to which he has risked his life for all of our Troops and my son is outraged that V cannot get out and faces more red tape.
Thank you for this blog, I'm a member of IAVA and other Vet organizations.
I would encourage all of you to give $10.00 or more if you can, especially to IAVA because they are going to need the money for Matthis who has announced his intention not to return to an illegal and immoral war.
A Blue Star Mom
by IngeniousGirl on Fri May 16, 2008 at 05:10:47 PM PDT
trying to get V and his family out of Iraq. This community is good at lighting up the phones and filling up email inboxes when we called upon. It would be an honor to help an Iraq who has done more for the cause than any American outside of the military.
"I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her. " -- Zora Neale Hurston
by blueintheface on Fri May 16, 2008 at 05:56:33 PM PDT
On a day in the early summer of 2005, in the area of operation of the 42nd Infantry Division, there was a traffic control point shooting. Traffic control point shootings are rather common in Iraq. They happen on a near, or daily, basis. What happened was a vehicle was driving very quickly towards a traffic control point. A young machine gunner made the split-second decision that that vehicle was a threat, and in less than a minute, put 200 rounds from his .50 caliber machine gun into that vehicle. That day, he killed a mother, a father, and two children. The boy was age four, and the daughter was age three.
On a day in the early summer of 2005, in the area of operation of the 42nd Infantry Division, there was a traffic control point shooting. Traffic control point shootings are rather common in Iraq. They happen on a near, or daily, basis.
What happened was a vehicle was driving very quickly towards a traffic control point. A young machine gunner made the split-second decision that that vehicle was a threat, and in less than a minute, put 200 rounds from his .50 caliber machine gun into that vehicle. That day, he killed a mother, a father, and two children. The boy was age four, and the daughter was age three.
Testimony of Geoff Millard, President of the Washington, D.C., Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against The War.
After the officer-in-charge briefed it to the general, in a very calm manner, Colonel Roschel of the 42nd Infantry Division – this calm commander, turned in his chair to the entire division level staff, and he said, and I quote, "If these fucking Hajis learned to drive, this shit wouldn’t happen." I looked around to talk at the other officers, at the other enlisted men, mostly higher enlisted. As a sergeant, I think I was the lowest ranking person in that room, and I didn’t see one dissenting body language, one disagreeing head-nod; everyone was in agreeance that it’s true, "If these f’ing Hajis learned to drive, this ‘s’ wouldn’t happ en."
This being just one 'tiny' detail...
"The way to win a Presidential race against the Republicans is to develop the class warfare issue..." Lee Atwater, Bush `88 campaign manager.
by aufklaerer on Sat May 17, 2008 at 07:30:21 AM PDT
That stayed with me the rest of my tour. I looked around every time that word, "Haji," was used, and I thought about that soldier who will carry that with him for the rest of his life, and I thought about the four Iraqis whose blood-line was ended on that day.
That's Geoff Millard again.
And this is from Bryan Casler:
But while on these convoys, I saw marines defecate into MRE bags and throw them at children on the side of the road, urinate into bottles, throw them at children on the side of the road. While stopped, take out their MRE bag, remove the chemical packaging that is activated by water, activated by moisture – this is what marines use, all service members with MREs use to heat their MREs – that is a moisture activated chemical heater. They would remove the chemical heater from the warning package that said, "Do not eat," with a symbol of a person and a X sign through them saying, quote Do not eat this," and they would give that to Iraqi children to see the responses on their faces.
Heavy stuff, I know. But we should honor the courage of these marines to speak up by spreading their word. Everyone should know what the day-to-day situation is like on the ground.
by aufklaerer on Sat May 17, 2008 at 07:40:39 AM PDT
wide narrow
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