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U.S. Broadcast Exclusive: Secret U.S. Plans For Iraq's Oil
Spark Political Fight Between Neocons and Big Oil
From New York to Fayetteville, London to Rome - Major Protests
Mark Second Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
Thousands Protest in Fayetteville in Largest Army Base Demonstration
Since Vietnam
U.S. Broadcast Exclusive: Secret U.S. Plans For Iraq's
Oil Spark Political Fight Between Neocons and Big Oil
In an explosive new report, investigative journalist Greg
Palast charges that President Bush was planning to invade
Iraq before the September 11th attacks and was considering
two very different plans about what to do with Iraq's oil.
The plans reportedly sparked a political fight between neoconservatives
and big oil companies. Greg Palast joins us in our firehouse
studio and we air his exclusive report, "Secret U.S.
Plans For Iraq's Oil" for the first time in this country.
President Bush was planning to invade Iraq before the September
11th attacks and was considering two very different plans
about what to do with Iraq's oil. The plans sparked a political
fight between neoconservatives and big oil companies and may
help explain the recent appointments of Paul Wolfowitz to
head the World Bank and John Bolton as ambassador to the United
Nations. That's the explosive charge in an expose by investigative
reporter Greg Palast. This exclusive report aired on the BBC
last week. This is the first time it is being showed in the
United States.
- Secret U.S. Plans For Iraq's Oil
- Greg Palast, investigative reporter. Check out his website
at GregPalast.com.
From New York to Fayetteville, London to Rome - Major
Protests Mark Second Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
On Saturday, major protests were held around the country
and the world to mark the second anniversary of the invasion
in Iraq. From New York to Fayetteville, London to Rome, people
took to the streets to demonstrate against the war. We bring
you the words of some of the people who took to the streets.
On Saturday, major protests were held around the country
and the world to mark the second anniversary of the invasion
in Iraq.
Anti-war protests were held in over 800 cities and towns
across the US - including rallies, marches, civil disobedience
actions and silent vigils.
In Fayetteville, North Carolina as many as 4,800 gathered
outside the military base Fort Bragg. It was the largest protest
at the base since the Vietnam War.
In New York, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the
United Nations and marched to Times Square carrying hundreds
of flag-draped coffins. Another march went through Harlem
to Central Park. Members of the War Resisters League staged
acts of civil disobedience outside military recruiting stations
throughout the city. 36 people were arrested.
In San Francisco, several thousand protesters marched from
Dolores Park to Civic Center Plaza with the crowd stretching
for about 15 blocks.
In Los Angeles, 1,500 marched through Hollywood, and in Chicago
hundreds of police escorted a thousand protesters as they
marched to an afternoon rally at the Federal Plaza.
In Albuquerque, some 300 demonstrators gathered in front
of the New Mexico National Guard Armory and glued pieces of
paper featuring the names and faces of dead American soldiers
to the sidewalk.
Protests continued yesterday in Boston when as many as 5,000
antiwar protesters converged on Boston Common in a mostly
peaceful demonstration that ended with seven arrests.
Overseas the largest protest came in London where between
45,000 and 100,000 people marched through the city. Thousands
of people also took to the streets in Madrid, Barcelona, Istanbul,
Athens, Oslo, Japan and Australia.
Meanwhile, President Bush made an uncompromising defense
of the invasion in his weekly radio address saying, "On
this day two years ago, we launched Operation Iraqi Freedom
to disarm a brutal regime, free its people, and defend the
world from a grave danger."
Today we spend the rest of the hour going around the country
to bring you the protesters in their own words. We begin here
in New York where about 20 people staged civil disobedience
at the military recruiting center in Times Square. The recruiting
center decided to close that day in anticipation of protests.
- Carmen Trotta, of the Catholic Worker speaking at a protest
in Times Square, New York City.
Some of the protesters speaking in New York on Saturday.
Afterwards, they laid down on Broadway and were arrested.
36 people were arrested in total. A mother of a soldier deployed
in Iraq witnessed the civil disobedience in times square from
the sidewalk. This is her reaction.
- Mother of Soldier deployed in Iraq, speaking at a protest
in Times Square, New York City.
Thousands Protest in Fayetteville in Largest Army
Base Demonstration Since Vietnam
A protest near Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina
was the largest protest of any kind there since a 1970 protest
against the Vietnam War. We hear some of the speeches from
the rally.
We go to Fayetteville, North Carolina. The protest near
Fort Bragg was the site of one of the largest protests in
this country on Saturday.
Some 4,800 people gathered in what was the largest protest
of any kind in Fayetteville since a 1970 protest against the
Vietnam War.
More than 10,000 soldiers from Fort Bragg are serving in
Afghanistan and Iraq - and the Fayetteville Observer reports
that about 80 service personnel with ties to the region have
been killed since 2002.
- Lou Plummer, a veteran of the National Guard and the
father of the current military resister Andrew Plummer.
- David Potorti, a founding member of September 11th Families
for Peaceful Tomorrows.
- Cindy Sheehan, her son Casey was a soldier who died in
Sadr City in 2004.
- Michael Hoffman, founder of Iraq Veterans Against the
War. He served 4 years in the Marine Corps and participated
in the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
- Kevin and Joyce Lucey, Their son, Jeffrey, committed
suicide three weeks after he was discharged from a military
hospital.
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