On the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, Ralph talks about the true costs of war with executive director of Veterans for Peace, Michael McPhearson and un-embedded war correspondent, Dahr Jamail, eyewitness to the battle of Fallujah.
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Thank you for your noble treatment of the festering scourge that is US militarism.
VJP and the IVAW formed the first cogent US organized movement of veterans against criminal war. Nevertheless, the public reception to their strong, courageous stance has been ho-hum. The war economy, news media and the fervent IPO of every new engagement has numbed much of the public.
From the POV of the peace and antiwar movement, the ambivalence, apathy alienation of the US public seems ironic since millions of us poured out into the streets worldwide–before shock and awe occurred, in the chilly winter weeks of 2003.
I will keep the bumper of my car stickered with Refuse Illegal War from the trial of Lieutenant Ehren Keoni Watada in which he the first US military officer won in his effort to protest a US war and refuse to serve in it.
Thanks again, brothers in flower power.
Thank you again you guys preparing this wonderful show. I hope you are able to spred the word fare out in the US and abroad. The war in Iraq is and has been a disgrace for the whole world. The war criminals as you list them have to be put on triel and and convicted. Unfortunately that seems to be a fare fetch dream in todays political clima. Though there is still hope for justice to happen!