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Today's Stories:
Bush and Company
Congressional Investigations Into Lack of WMD by Congresswoman
Maxine Waters
Commentary by Professor Ira Chernus: It’s All An Illusion
Immigrants Civil Liberties: Arthi
Commentator and Humorist Jim Hightower Gives an Analysis of
Current Events
Montage: Does It Matter that No WMDs Have Been Found?
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Bush and Company
In the months leading up to the US’s war on Iraq,
President Bush, Colin Powell and others in the Bush Administration
continued to reassure the American people that they had proof
that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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Congressional Investigations Into Lack of WMD by
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced a resolution of inquiry
in congress yesterday calling for Bush to turn over the intelligence
used to back its claims that had weapons of mass destruction
and posed an imminent threat to the US.
Several weeks after the US forces overthrew the Saddam Hussein
regime, US forces have been unable to find any evidence of
this purported arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. After
searching more than 300 sites, the US forces have been unsuccessful
in locating any of the massive stockpiles of chemical or biological
weapons.
Peacewatch spoke with U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters,
a Democrat from California regarding the search for WMDs and
asked whether it really mattered that we could not find them.
Tape: Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Democrat of California
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Commentary by Professor Ira Chernus: It’s All
An Illusion
In a recent article that appeared on the website Common
Dreams New Center, Professor Ira Chernus expressed that: "Outrage
At Administration Lying Misses A Crucial Point"
Tape: Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the
University of Colorado at Boulder
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Immigrants Civil Liberties: Arthi
Arthi Shehani, of Families for Freedom, speaks on the Bush
Administration's attack on immigrants and the growing division
between citizens and non-citizens in the United States. Shehani
expresses that the detention and deportation laws are being
manipulated by law enforcement agencies targeting and infringing
on the rights of a growing number of immigrants as part of
the new national homeland security and the war on terrorism.
Tape: Arthi Shehani is an organizer of Families for Freedom,
a New York area network of immigrants facing detention and
deportation that consists of primarily Latinos and South Asian
that live in the New York and New Jersey area. Thanks to Evan
Davis for production assistance wit that speech.
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Commentator and Humorist Jim Hightower Gives an Analysis
of Current Events
Humorist and Texas Populist, Jim Hightower stopped by the
Peacewatch studios today. Hightower is the former Agricultural
Commissioner of Texas and the author of numerous books including:
If the Gods had Meant us to Vote They Would Have Given us
Candidates. We asked him about the patriotic duty to dissent.
Tape: Jim Hightower, Texas populist, humorist and author.
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Montage: Does It Matter that No WMDs Have Been Found?
Outside of the progressive movement - - - how many Americans
really care whether weapons of mass destruction are ever located
or not? Is it justification enough that the brutal, repressive
regime of Saddam Hussein was brought down by the U.S. and
Britain - - - regardless of the lack of evidence the Bush
and Blair administration relied on to lead us into war. Well,
Peacewatch production assistant Keith Shaljian took to the
streets of the Nations’ Capitol to pose that question
to residents, commuters and tourists from around the country.
Here’s a bit of what they said.
Tape: produced by Peacewatch production assistant Keith
Shaljian.
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