The PEOPLE vs. BUSH’s War : Testimonials, Put the war on trial

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http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6026

Friday 13th May 2005 (09h42) :

The people vs. Bush’s war : Put the war on trial

TESTIMONY FROM: Pablo Paredes, Monica Benderman, Howard Zinn, Dr. Salam Ismael, Jo Wilding, Justin Alexander, Monique Dols, Dahr Jamail, Bill Davis

-four snippets:

Pablo Paredes

But it is those for whom I carry this minor cross who truly need our help. It is the Iraqis--who die for nothing more than believing they have a right to exist in their own country--who need help. It is the Iraqi families who lose children, mothers and fathers for no other reason than believing they have a right to breathe their own air.

Howard Zinn

And even though the corporate media have been reluctant to show the U.S. soldiers with amputated limbs or Iraqis killed by our bombs, some of those images have started to break through. Soldiers returning home have started to tell their stories--to describe what is really happening in Iraq. And some have refused to return to fight in this war--which is not a war for democracy or freedom, but a war for oil and for power.

EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY Justin Alexander

Iraqis understand that many of the soldiers themselves, like the guard at Camp Bukka, do not agree with what they are doing. The problem is with the politicians who continue to place soldiers, brainwashed by the media and military with negative stereotypes of Iraqis, in places where they cannot understand the dynamics or language. Instead of bringing security, these terrified and hence trigger-happy soldiers continue to murder hundreds of the innocent Iraqis they are supposed to have liberated, and their presence incites further violence from terrorists and insurgents.

EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY Dahr Jamail

Nearly every soldier I’ve spoken with inside Iraq expressed dismay at the situation and was confused about why they are even there. With each passing day, we can see clearly that the situation only continues to degrade. Scores of Iraqis are dying on a daily basis now--last week, in a three-day period in Baghdad alone, 1,365 attacks occurred on U.S. and Iraqi security forces. U.S. troops are dying at an average of nearly two every single day, with 10 times that number wounded.

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1. Remarkable Zinn documentary on the Sundance Channel

***One of the finest, most thought provoking documentaries out there.


"What can I say that will in any way convey the love, respect, and admiration I feel for this unassuming hero who was my teacher and mentor, this radical historian and people-loving 'trouble-maker,' this man who stood with us and suffered with us? Howard Zinn was the best teacher I ever had, and the funniest."
— Alice Walker
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www.sundancechannel.com

HOWARD ZINN: YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN

Monday 05.16.2005
12:00PM

Monday 05.16.2005
05:05AM

Thursday 05.19.2005
07:30PM

Thursday 05.19.2005
04:30AM

Saturday 05.28.2005
03:30PM

Tuesday 05.31.2005
09:00AM

DVD
HOWARD ZINN: YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN
directed by Deb Ellis
and Denis Mueller

YEAR
2004

77 MINS, Color/B&W

Teacher, activist, historian and author. Howard Zinn's personal journey took him from a bookless working-class flat in New York to a prestigious position at Boston University. For the past-half century, Zinn has been one of the leading voices of the American left, voicing opposition to American power abroad, championing civil rights at home and chronicling the history of working people. In a profile in courage and conviction, documentarians Deb Ellis and Dennis Mueller tell the inspiring story of Zinn's life and teachings. TVPG (AC) Stereo

PRODUCER
Deb Ellis
Denis Mueller

EDITOR
Deb Ellis

COMPOSER
Richard Martinez

www.sundancechannel.com

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2. Navy Judge Finds War Protest Reasonable!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3652246&mesg_id=3652246

Navy Judge Finds War Protest Reasonable!

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051305X.shtml

Navy Judge Finds War Protest Reasonable
By Marjorie Cohn
t r u t h o u t | Report

Friday 13 May 2005

"I think that the government has successfully proved that any service member has reasonable cause to believe that the wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq were illegal."
-- Lt. Cmdr. Robert Klant, presiding at Pablo Paredes' court-martial

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3. Stop the Crime of the Century

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0513-20.htm

Published on Friday, May 13, 2005 by CommonDreams.org

Stop the Crime of the Century

by David Michael Green

In Iraq, there is a crime of breathtaking proportions taking place. Breathtaking, but necessarily surprising. We know from the historical record that governments will lie and deceive, and we've rarely seen one as immoral and venal as the Bush administration.
What has turned this crime into an astonishing demonstration of the depth of American democracy's decay is the complicity of the media establishment in hiding the original crime, and in thus doing so, ripping a gaping hole in the fabric of our political system.

Did you know that there now exists in the public domain a 'smoking gun' memo, which proves that everything the Bush administration said about the Iraq invasion was a lie? If you live in Britain you probably do, but if you live in the United States, chances are minuscule that you would be aware of this.

Think about that for a second. Apart from 9/11, has there been a more important story in the last decade than that the president lied to the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq, and then proceeded to plunge the country into an illegal war which has alienated the rest of the world, lit a fire under the war's victims and the Islamic world generally, turning them into enemy combatants, locked up virtually all American land forces in a war without end in sight, cost $300 billion and counting, taken over 1600 American lives on top of more than 15,000 gravely wounded, and killed perhaps 100,000 Iraqis?

Could there be a bigger story? "How Do Japanese Dump Trash?", perhaps, which ran on page one of today's (May 12) Times?


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4. I recall FSTV on Dish...

showing a spot informing the viewers of an upcoming 'War Trials' show. Can't remember when it's going to be aired tho.

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5. Bush Told Blair Invasion was "Inevitable"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051405Z.shtml

British Intelligence Warned of Iraq War
By Walter Pincus
The Washington Post

Friday 13 May 2005

Blair was told of White House's determination to use military against Hussein.

Seven months before the invasion of Iraq, the head of British foreign intelligence reported to Prime Minister Tony Blair that President Bush wanted to topple Saddam Hussein by military action and warned that in Washington intelligence was "being fixed around the policy," according to notes of a July 23, 2002, meeting with Blair at No. 10 Downing Street.

"Military action was now seen as inevitable," said the notes, summarizing a report by Richard Dearlove, then head of MI6, British intelligence, who had just returned from consultations in Washington along with other senior British officials. Dearlove went on, "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD . But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

"The case was thin," summarized the notes taken by a British national security aide at the meeting. "Saddam was not threatening his neighbours and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."

The notes were first disclosed last week by the Sunday Times of London, triggering criticism of Blair on the eve of the May 5 British parliamentary elections that he had decided to support an invasion of Iraq well before informing the public of his views.

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