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8:00-8:01 Billboard:
"This Administration Is A Smash And Grab Robbery Writ Large"
Author and Political Analyst William Rivers Pitt Speaks
Out On The Bush Administration and Iraq
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:58 "This Administration Is A Smash And Grab
Robbery Writ Large" Author and Political Analyst William
Rivers Pitt Speaks Out On The Bush Administration and Iraq
INTRO: We spend the hour hearing a speech by acclaimed young
author, political analyst and managing editor of truthout.org
William Rivers Pitt. He is the author of War on Iraq: What
Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know and The Greatest Sedition
Is Silence: Four Years in America.
The latest news from the Middle East:
Human Rights Watch has found that U.S. forces have killed
at least 94 civilians in Baghdad over the past six months
but the U.S. has failed to investigate all but five of the
incidents. The human rights group has concluded this has encouraged
soldiers to believe they can fire at civilians in Iraq with
impunity.
The Army has begun investigating complaints that sick and
wounded veterans from the Iraq invasion have been forced to
be housed in makeshift hot cement barracks and have been forced
to wait weeks to see a doctor. At Fort Stewart, troops have
been kept in temporary barracks that lack indoor bathrooms.
And sources within the Bush administration are now saying
they have uncovered evidence that Syrian banks are holding
$3 billion that once belonged to Saddam Hussein's government.
The New York Times reports Syria has so far refused to cooperate
with an investigation being carried out by the Treasury Department.
- William Rivers Pitt, speaking at Pacifica's KPFT station
in Houston on September 15th, 2003. He is the managing editor
of truthout.org and author of War on Iraq: What Team Bush
Doesn't Want You To Know and The Greatest Sedition Is Silence:
Four Years in America. His newest book is Our Flag, Too:
The Paradox of Patriotism.
Link: www.truthout.org
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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