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Live From Baghdad An Ordinary Iraqi Speaks Out: “The
U.S. Has No Intention of Leaving Iraq”
“I Find That A Travesty” - Joseph Wilson On
Reports the White House May Invoke Executive Privilege In
the Investigation of the Outting of His Wife As a CIA Operative
Scientific McCarthyism: Is The Bush Administration Compiling
a Hit List of AIDS Scientists?
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:20 Live From Baghdad An Ordinary Iraqi Speaks
Out: “The U.S. Has No Intention of Leaving Iraq”
INTRO: As the Baghdad headquarters of U.S. occupation forces
comes under fire, we turn to a voice rarely heard in the U.S.
media – that of an ordinary Iraqi. We go to Baghdad
to hear from retired engineer Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar.
A US soldier and a British Royal Marine were killed in Iraq
and the Baghdad headquarters of the coalition authority came
under fire in another attack against the US-led occupation
that wounded three people.
A judge investigating members of Saddam Hussein's former
government was shot dead yesterday in the northern Iraqi city
of Mosul -- the second such killing in as many days.
Meanwhile Spain--a staunch US ally--announced it was pulling
most of its diplomats and experts out of the Iraq.
The death of the US soldier pushed the US toll to more than140
since May 1, when President Bush declared major hostilities
over. The number of Iraqis killed remains a number impossible
to calculate.
For perspective on the latest developments in Iraq we now
turn to a voice that is rarely heard in the US media and that
is one of an ordinary Iraqi living in Baghdad. Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar
is a retired engineer.
- Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar, a retired Iraqi engineer speaking
from Baghdad.
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-8:40 “I Find That A Travesty” -
Joseph Wilson On Reports the White House May Invoke Executive
Privilege In the Investigation of the Outting of His Wife
As a CIA Operative
INTRO: Joseph Wilson, the former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq,
joins us in our firehouse studios to discuss the ongoing investigation
as to who outted his wife as a CIA operative days after he
blew the whistle on the White House’s key case that
Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear program.
Ambassador Joseph Wilson is the last US official to meet
with Saddam Hussein before the start of the war 12 years ago.
As the acting US ambassador to Iraq in the weeks leading up
to the war, the White House consulted Wilson daily. He was
formally commended by the Bush administration for his bravery
and heroism in the weeks leading up to the war. In that time,
Wilson helped evacuate thousands of foreigners from Kuwait,
negotiated the release of more than 120 American hostages
and sheltered nearly 800 Americans in the embassy compound.
But Wilson’s work in Iraq that won him praise from
the current president’s father is not what he is now
known for. For months, he has been at the center of a controversy
that could prove to be one of the clearest cases of documentable
criminal conduct by an administration since Watergate and
the Iran-Contra scandal.
Wilson is the man who debunked the White House’s key
case that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear program—the
so-called Niger connection. A few days after Wilson blew the
whistle, conservative columnist Robert Novak wrote a column
in which he cited two senior administration officials and
stated that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative
dealing with weapons of mass destruction.
We also take a look at some of the background of this story
as told in the new documentary “Uncovered: The Whole
Truth About the Iraq War” produced by Robert Greenwald.
Among the voices you will hear:
National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, Milt Bearden,
the former CIA station chief in Pakistan, John Dean, President
Nixon’s White House Counsel, Senator Bob Graham and
Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International
Atomic Energy Agency.
- Tape: “Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq
War” – Excerpts from the documentary produced
by Robert Greenwald.
Link: www.truthuncovered.com
8:40-8:41 One Minute Music Break
8:41-8:58 Scientific McCarthyism: Is The Bush Administration
Compiling a Hit List of AIDS Scientists?
INTRO: A list of over 150 scientists - which may have originated
in the Department of Health - researching a wide range of
topics related to health and sexuality, including HIV/AIDS,
has been given to federal officials and is being used in attempts
to discredit the researchers and challenge or revoke their
federal grants.
A list of over 150 scientists researching a wide range of
topics related to health and sexuality, including HIV/AIDS,
has been compiled and given to federal officials by a conservative
advocacy group and is being used in attempts to discredit
the researchers and challenge or revoke their federal grants.
The list of about $100 million in grants was prepared last
summer by the Traditional Values Coalition, which claims to
represent 43,000 churches nationwide.
The list is being used by the coalition and its government
allies in attempts to discredit the researchers and challenge
or revoke their federal grants. The list is circulating among
members of Congress and was forwarded to the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), which is responsible for awarding the crucially
important grants. NIH is now asking these scientists to provide
additional justification for their work.
Last week, Democratic Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California
denounced the list as an ideologically driven QUOTE "hit
list." In a letter to Health Secretary Tommy Thompson,
Waxman said officials within HHS itself appear to have been
directly involved in the list’s creation and demanded
an explanation.
- Alfred (Al) Sommer, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health and professor of Epidemiology, International
Health, and Ophthalmology.
Link: www.jhsph.edu
- Judith (Judy) Auerbach, is Vice President, Public Policy
at the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). Until
recently she headed the Office of AIDS Research at the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
Link: www.amfar.org
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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