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Today's Stories:
Iraq Peace Team Visits Bombed Children’s Hospital: Shane
Clayborne
‘U.S. Will Lose This War’ - Scott Ritter
Worldwide Peace protests
Domestic Costs of War US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D
TX)
Military Recruiters
Gratitude for the Peace Makers of the World - Patrice Gaines
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Story: Iraq Peace Team Visits Bombed Children’s
Hospital: Shane Clayborne
Over the weekend members Iraq Peace Team from Voices In the
Wilderness left Baghdad enroute to Amman, Jordan. Their rapid
escape was sidetracked when their vehicle overturned and they
were rushed to a local hospital for treatment of their wounds.
Peace Watch spoke with Shane Clayborne of Voices in the
Wilderness today about his experience in Baghdad and their
hasty exit from the war torn city.
Tape: Shane Clayborne of Voices in the Wilderness in Amman,
Jordan
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Story: ‘U.S. Will Lose This War’ - Scott
Ritter
A man who says he knows intimately the Iraqi terrain and
the Saddam Hussein government, having fought in the first
Gulf war - - -predicts the U.S. will lose this war. Former
U-N Chief Weapons inspector Scott Ritter, also a former U-N
marine intelligence officer says the policies advocated by
the Bush administration to liberate the Iraqi people will
not work. During an interview today with Peace Watch, Ritter
further explained his skepticism.
Tape: Former U-N Chief Weapons inspector Scott Ritter.
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Story: Worldwide Peace protests
Around the world this weekend, thousands of people engaged
in anti-war protests and vigils for peace. About 100,000 demonstrators
marched on the US Embassy in Jakarta on Sunday, as part of
Indonesia's largest anti-war protest to date. In South Korea,
some 30,000 workers gathered to demand that their National
Assembly reject a bill to dispatching 700 military engineers
and medics to support the war. Even China-- which traditionally
forbids political protests of any sort-- allowed several dozen
students at Beijing University to put up antiwar signboards
and pass out fliers to their classmates.
Meanwhile, an estimated 300 thousand people belonging to
19 political parties gathered in north Kolkata, India, holding
signs reading, "No war, we want peace," and "Down
with the imperial designs of the US-UK." In Mumbai, India,
formerly known as Bombay, people's feelings about the war
between the US and Iraq are based in India's long history
of internal and external conflict....
Tape: Peacewatch correspondent Jean Parker spoke with a
cross section of Indians in Mumbai about their views
Closer to home, while the invasion of Iraq grinds on, the
Bush administration is encouraging the American public to
go on with their daily lives. However, people across the nation
continue to voice their dissent, including taking part in
protest actions where they risk arrest. In the nation's capitol
early Friday morning, a group of global justice activists
came together to say "no" to 'business as usual'
politics....
Tape: Selina Musuta files this report
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Story: Domestic Costs of War US Rep. Sheila
Jackson Lee (D TX)
Later this week, Congress will debate Bush’s supplemental
budget to fund the spiraling costs of the war on Iraq. Bush
is asking for $75 billion, but estimates by independent economists
of the costs of the war have ranged from $100 million to as
high as $1.6 trillion, in the worst-case scenario. This concerns
Texas Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee who spoke
on the floor of the House of Representatives last week about
the domestic costs of the war.
Tape: US Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas
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Story: Military Recruiters
As the pentagon calls up more troops to defend its supply
lines in Iraq, military recruiters back at home are working
to ensure a fresh supply of young Americans for the so called
war on terror. The president's No Child Left Behind education
plan has given recruiters unprecedented access to America's
youth.
Tape: Peacewatch contributor Josh Chaffin has this look
at some of the controversies the recruiters bring with them
into American high schools:
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Story: Gratitude for the Peace Makers of the World
- Patrice Gaines
Thousands of artists, musicians, actors and writers have
signed up for waging the peace in the midst of this bloody
war, amongst them; freelance writer Patrice Gaines offers
this expression of gratitude to the Peace Makers of the world.
Tape: Patrice Gaines is a former writer for the Washington
Post and author of “Laughing in the Dark”.
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