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Today's Stories:
Democratic Representative Jim McDermott
Speaks Out Against Additional Dollars for War
Three British Soldiers Sent Home - Richard Norton-Taylor,
The Guardian
Code Pink Protests Fox News Coverage of War
Civilian Casualties Lolind Huganen Benjamin
The Business of War John Pope
Civil liberties
Silent Protest at White House - Maired Corrigan Maguire
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President Bush, comforting grief-stricken family and friends
of fallen Marines, praised U.S. troops today for their two-week
advance on Baghdad and said quote "a vise is closing"
on Saddam Hussein's regime. "What we have begun, we will
finish," Bush told thousands of cheering Marines and
their families. "We will not stop until Iraq is free."
At least 13 of the Americans killed in action since the
war started two weeks ago were from Camp LeJeune, N.C., and
six more from the Marine Corps base are missing. Bush gave
a speech this morning honoring the commitment of those fighting
for their country. He was reminding Marines and the public
that more sacrifices are to come.
Tape: George W. Bush at Camp LeJeune
According to Pentagon officials, 39 U.S. troops have fallen
to hostile fire and 10 to so-called ‘non-hostile’
incidents. U.S. military officials say 420 Iraqis are dead
and 4,000 injured. The U.S. claims 4,500 Iraqis have been
taken prisoner.
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Story: Democratic Representative Jim McDermott Speaks
Out Against Additional Dollars for War
President-select Bush has just requested an additional $11
Billion Dollars in supplemental funds in addition to the original
$75 Billion requested last week for the war, with no specifics
as to how it will be allocated. PeaceWatch spoke with Democratic
Representative Jim McDermott, from Seattle, Washington, who
sits on the House Ways and Means Committee. We asked McDermott
if he could help us to understand exactly how these additional
funds would be used.
Tape: Democratic Representative Jim McDermott, from Seattle,
Washington,
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Story: Three British Soldiers Sent Home - Richard
Norton-Taylor, The Guardian
Three unidentified British soldiers have been sent home
from Iraq because of objecting to the war. According to the
British newspaper The Guardian, the three soldiers, based
in Colchester, in Essex face court martial and have acquired
defense attorneys. According to British military sources,
soldiers can be sent home for a number of reasons, including
compassionate and medical, as well as disciplinary grounds.
The fact that they have sought legal advice suggests the three
were not sent home for medical reasons.
Defense editor for the British newspaper The Guardian, Richard
Norton-Taylor broke the story and spoke with PeaceWatch today.
Tape: Richard Norton-Taylor, defense Editor for the British
newspaper, The Guardian
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Story: Code Pink Protests Fox News Coverage of War
Today, members of Code Pink held protests outside the Fox
news studios in Washington DC and San Francisco to protest
their coverage of the war in Iraq. The peace activists delivered
quote "pink slips" un-quote to reporters they felt
were the most biased and donated journalism textbooks to teach
the basics of reporting.
PeaceWatch spoke with Gael Murphy outside of the Fox News
DC Bureau.
Tape: Gael Murphy of Code Pink
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Story: Civilian Casualties Lolind Huganen Benjamin
Reports of civilian casualties are slowly emerging from
Iraq. The British Guardian reported that vans or truckloads
of civilians, specifically, women and children were found
dead at the end of gunfire by the US forces for possession
of the Bridge to Najaf in central Iraq.
Lolind Huganen Benjamin is in Baghdad monitoring the assault
on Iraq for International Committee to the Red Cross. Benjamin
originally went to Baghdad to report on the conditions in
Iraq under economic sanctions. With the onset of war his mission
has changed to include reporting the effects of the war on
the Iraqi citizens. PeaceWatch spoke with Benjamin yesterday
regarding the bombing of the Red Crescent Maternity Hospital
earlier this week and other civilian casualties.
Tape: Lolind Huganen Benjamin, the spokesperson for the
International Committee of the Red Cross in Baghdad, Iraq
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Story: The Business of War John Pope
A popular anti-war poster designed by Seymour Chwast during
the Vietnam War read: “War is good for business…invest
your son.” It’s a sentiment echoed today by anti
war activists who have targeted businesses in the U.S. growing
richer from contracts around the invasion of Iraq. Peacewatch
spoke recently with Charles Pope, Washington DC reporter for
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper about some of the
corporations receiving lucrative contracts for the rebuilding
of Iraq.
Tape: Charles Pope, reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Stories: Civil liberties
Last Saturday, following a peace rally and march in Boston,
with tens of thousands participating, a much smaller group
of people heard International Human Rights Attorney Michael
Ratner, President of the NY city based Center for Constitutional
Rights, speak about the connections between civil rights in
the U.S. and the War in Iraq.
Tape: Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional
Rights
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Story: Silent Protest at White House - Maired Corrigan
Maguire
A solider that saves a fellow soldier’s life is called
a war hero. Now the few who save the peace and prevent war
are recognized as peacemakers and very few of them are awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize. Yesterday, a silent vigil was held
in front of the White House led by Nobel Prize laureate Maired
Corrigan Maguire. PeaceWatch associate producer, Angelique
Shofar was there and filed this report.
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