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Cindy Sheehan / George W Bush / "After You've Gone" Serenade of fondness from Iraq War protest mom Cindy Sheehan to the 43rd US President 1927 song performance by Ruth Etting (1896 -- 1978) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sheehan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Etting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_You%27ve_Gone_%28song%29 Tags: Iraq war protest mom comedy Cindy Sheehan President George Bush jazz Ruth Etting song antiwar impeach 9/11 moveon |
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Amy Goodman: Cindy Sheehan and the Press Corp Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! was in San Antonio October 2006 as keynote speaker for Lady Fest San Antonio. Amy tells the story of Cindy Sheehan and the White House Press Corp. With commentary by Nadine Saliba. Produced by 411 Productions. This clip was for San Antonio Public Access TV. Tags: Amy_Goodman LadyFest Democracy_Now Nadine_Saliba Cindy_Sheehan Press_corp Esperanza texasmep 411_productions |
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Cindy Sheehan at Fighting Bob Fest (9/8/07) Part 2 of 5 Cindy Sheehan at Fighting Bob Fest (9/8/07) Parts 1-5 This footage is of Cindy Sheehan speaking at the Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo, Wisconsin on September 8, 2007. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgW511MWJc Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVRrPUiFeU8 Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j78s7AnqSdE Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n0rCjkHHX8 Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72wmQWigdzE From WIKI: Cindy Sheehan is an American anti-war activist, whose son, Casey Sheehan, was killed during his service in the Iraq War on April 4, 2004, aged 24. She attracted international attention in August 2005 for her extended demonstration at a peace camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch garnering her both support and criticism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sheehan More info about the Fighting Bob Fest is here: http://fightingbobfest.org/ Cindy Sheehan Iraq Fighting Bob Fest Bush war peace Tags: Cindy Sheehan Iraq Fighting Bob Fest Bush war peace |
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Cindy Sheehan at Fighting Bob Fest (9/8/07) Part 3 of 5 Cindy Sheehan at Fighting Bob Fest (9/8/07) Parts 1-5 This footage is of Cindy Sheehan speaking at the Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo, Wisconsin on September 8, 2007. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgW511MWJc Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVRrPUiFeU8 Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j78s7AnqSdE Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n0rCjkHHX8 Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72wmQWigdzE From WIKI: Cindy Sheehan is an American anti-war activist, whose son, Casey Sheehan, was killed during his service in the Iraq War on April 4, 2004, aged 24. She attracted international attention in August 2005 for her extended demonstration at a peace camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch garnering her both support and criticism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sheehan More info about the Fighting Bob Fest is here: http://fightingbobfest.org/ Cindy Sheehan Iraq Fighting Bob Fest Bush war peace Tags: Cindy Sheehan Iraq Fighting Bob Fest Bush war peace |
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Re: Dennis Kucinich: You Choose '08 Spotlight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sheehan Tags: Dennis Kucinich Elizabeth You Tube Choose Spotlight Video presidential Campaign 2008 Cindy Sheehan |
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Body of War - Cowardly Congress-Spineless Senate - Preview Interview Q & A with Phil Donahue View it, in its entirety, at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Video/?ProgramID=1172 Read the transcript of the interview at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1172 Also check the interview with the suave, urbane and articulate Dr. Hans Blix, maliciously maligned by the Bush administration, politely answer all questions on his NOT finding any WMD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RnQaVS_rRE Washington, District of Columbia (United States) -Brian Lamb: - Chief Honcho at C-SPAN. -Phil Donahue: Renown Talk-Show Host; exiled for being skeptical, Executive Producer, Co-Director of "Body Of War". -Tomas Young: Honorably discharged Iraqi Invasion Veteran, T-4 Quadriplegic; Cenral character of this heart-wrenching documentary. -Ellen Spiro: Award winning Director and Educator. -Phillip Schopper: Documentary editor. -Bernadine Colish: "..assembled the whole thing for us." -Cathy Smith: Tomas Young's mother; Stalward physical/emotional/psychological supporter, tireless worker, and nurturer; with another son in Iraq. -Brie Young: Ex-wife of Tomas Young, also loving, affectionate, reduced to acting mainly as a servant. -Cindy Sheehan: Well known anti-war activist. ___________________________________ Former talk show host Phil Donahue talked about his documentary Body of War. Mr. Donahue was the co-director and executive producer of the documentary about a young man named Tomas Young who, following September 11, 2001, enlisted in the military. In March 2004, he went to Iraq. Less than a week into his tour of duty he was shot and paralyzed from the chest down. After months of recovery, he returned to his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. The documentary tells the story of his physical rehabilitation and his decision to actively protest the war in Iraq. It follows him as he struggles with wearing catheters and attempting to correct his erectile dysfunction. It also follows him as he demonstrates against the war in Texas and Washington, D.C. The program also shows the Senate debate on the resolution to go into Iraq. Video clips of the documentary were shown and Mr. Donahue talked about how he got involved in this project as well as his own feelings about the war in Iraq. ____________________________________ Info: Phil Danohue, discusses his new documentary called "Body of War." This documentary tells the story of a former Iraq war soldier, Tomas Young. The documentary follows his physical rehabilitation and his decision to actively protest the Iraq war. The program also shows the Senate debate on the resolution to go into Iraq, During Q&A, Mr. Donohue talks about how he got involved in this project as well as his own feelings about the Iraq War. Clips of the documentary are shown. Tags: Brian_Lamb Phil_Donahue Tomas_Young Ellen_Spiro Phillip_Schopper Cindy_Sheehan Cathy_Smith Sadr_City Saddam_Hussein |
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"Body Of War" - Cowardly Congress-Spineless Senate 1 of 7 Interview Part 1 of 7 Q & A with Phil Donahue View it, in its entirety, at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Video/?ProgramID=1172 Read the transcript of the interview at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1172 Also check the interview with the suave, urbane and articulate Dr. Hans Blix, maliciously maligned by the Bush administration, politely answer all questions on his NOT finding any WMD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RnQaVS_rRE Washington, District of Columbia (United States) -Brian Lamb: - Chief Honcho at C-SPAN. -Phil Donahue: Renown Talk-Show Host; exiled for being skeptical, Executive Producer, Co-Director of "Body Of War". -Tomas Young: Honorably discharged Iraqi Invasion Veteran, T-4 Quadriplegic; Cenral character of this heart-wrenching documentary. -Ellen Spiro: Award winning Director and Educator. -Phillip Schopper: Documentary editor. -Bernadine Colish: "..assembled the whole thing for us." -Cathy Smith: Tomas Young's mother; Stalward physical/emotional/psychological supporter, tireless worker, and nurturer; with another son in Iraq. -Brie Young: Ex-wife of Tomas Young, also loving, affectionate, reduced to acting mainly as a servant. -Cindy Sheehan: Well known anti-war activist. Phil Donahue Co-Director & Executive Producer BRIAN LAMB, HOST: Phil Donahue, where did you get the title, "Body of War," for your documentary? PHIL DONAHUE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, "BODY OF WAR": Well, that was mine. It came to me after watching our own film on this young man. He's shirtless in one of the scenes. You can see the spot on his head where he wasn't moved in transit. So, literally, the hair roots died, because he never was moved. There's a little on the back. And you can see the laminectomy. He has a T4. So, the bullet came through here, right between the shoulder blades, and he is paralyzed from the nipples down. LAMB: Where did you find him? And who is he? DONAHUE: Tomas Young is an honorably discharged 1st Cavalry United States Army Specialist. Signed up 9/13. And he was at Fort Hood in basic when the light bulb went on for him. "Why am I going to Iraq," he said to himself. "I wanted to go to Afghanistan." He saw the president on the pile, getting the evildoers, and he wanted to help him. Anyway, it's too late now. He goes. He's there five days, and he gets whacked from above while he's in the back of a truck -- no top -- going through Sadr City. And our film shows him trying to rise from the ashes. A life-altering injury, alters not only him, but the lives of the whole family. And Brian, I don't have to tell you. This is the drama that is taking place behind the closed doors of thousands of homes across this country -- homes occupied by very brave, patriotic people who went to Iraq, who answered the call of their commander in chief, and have come home with -- Tomas has bowel and bladder. He's sick every morning. He throws up. His pills have pills. I mean, the closer you -- he can't cough, because he can't move his stomach muscles. He has erectile dysfunction -- 27 years old, the prime of life. I mean, what's a sacrifice to you? And the American people, by and large, do not see this. And this is just one story. There's 30,000 of these -- 30,000. LAMB: Besides Tomas Young, who else is there -- who are the main characters? The young lady that you -- well, not -- no, his mother. DONAHUE: His mother. LAMB: Who is his mother? DONAHUE: His mother is Cathy Smith. And also, he has a wonderful stepfather, who, by the way, is a dittohead. Tomas' stepfather listens to Rush Limbaugh. We have a heartland family -- Kansas City -- split. We have a blue-and-red family. Tomas has a younger brother who is in Iraq. Imagine. And Tomas is a warrior turned anti-warrior. The other star of the film is his mother, from this family. Cathy. She loomed over her son at Walter Reed. I mean, checking the temperature and how many blankets he had. And she's really been probably his most important emotional support. LAMB: What about Brie? Who is Brie? DONAHUE: Brie is Tomas' wife. Brie -- I went to the wedding. We filmed the wedding, and the wedding is part of the documentary, "Body of War." LAMB: And here it is on the screen. What year did they get married? DONAHUE: That would have been -- it'll be three years ago later this year, if I remember. I think it was an August wedding. We've been filming now -- we've been preparing this film now for three years. So, I'm saying this is about 2.5 years ago. LAMB: Can you remember the first moment you thought you wanted to do this? DONAHUE: Yes, indeed. I went to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, having been invited to accompany Ralph Nader. I was talking with Ralph after the '04 election. And he said, "A mother at Walter Reed wants to see me. Do you want to go?" Tags: Brian_Lamb Phil_Donahue Tomas_Young Ellen_Spiro Phillip_Schopper Cindy_Sheehan Cathy_Smith Sadr_City Saddam_Hussein |
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"Body Of War" - Cowardly Congress-Spineless Senate 2 of 7 Interview Part 2 of 7 Q & A with Phil Donahue View it, in its entirety, at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Video/?ProgramID=1172 Read the transcript of the interview at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1172 Also check the interview with the suave, urbane and articulate Dr. Hans Blix, maliciously maligned by the Bush administration, politely answer all questions on his NOT finding any WMD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RnQaVS_rRE Washington, District of Columbia (United States) -Brian Lamb: - Chief Honcho at C-SPAN. -Phil Donahue: Renown Talk-Show Host; exiled for being skeptical, Executive Producer, Co-Director of "Body Of War". -Tomas Young: Honorably discharged Iraqi Invasion Veteran, T-4 Quadriplegic; Cenral character of this heart-wrenching documentary. -Ellen Spiro: Award winning Director and Educator. -Phillip Schopper: Documentary editor. -Bernadine Colish: "..assembled the whole thing for us." -Cathy Smith: Tomas Young's mother; Stalward physical/emotional/psychological supporter, tireless worker, and nurturer; with another son in Iraq. -Brie Young: Ex-wife of Tomas Young, also loving, affectionate, reduced to acting mainly as a servant. -Cindy Sheehan: Well known anti-war activist. __________Transcript_________ Phil Donahue Co-Director & Executive Producer (BEGIN CLIPS FROM OCTOBER 2002) GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making. REP. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, R-FLORIDA: Saddam Hussein's regime trained al Qaeda operatives in bomb-making. REP. STEVE ROTHMAN, D-NEW JERSEY: Saddam is now training al Qaeda in bomb-making. PRESIDENT BUSH: We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. SEN. FRED THOMPSON, R-TENNESSEE: ... senior-level contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda going back a decade ... SEN. BILL FRIST, R-TENNESSEE: The Iraqi regime has been in contact with al Qaeda for at least a decade ... PRESIDENT BUSH: Saddam Hussein is harboring terrorists. SEN. HILLARY CLINTON, D-NEW YORK: ... harbors these terrorists, aid, comfort and sanctuary to terrorists ... PRESIDENT BUSH: We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. (END CLIPS FROM OCTOBER 2002) TOMAS YOUNG: I wonder if the Bushes and the people of FOX News, and people like that, had a big sigh of relief when the hurricane hit. "I know it's a horrible tragedy," they must have said, "but thank God we don't have to talk about Cindy." My pillbox separates them out for the week. This is carbon mazapin (ph). It is a nerve pain medication. DAVID TINSLEY, CLERK OF THE SENATE, ANNOUNCING THE SENATE VOTE FOR THE IRAQ WAR RESOLUTION, OCTOBER 2002: Ms. Collins, aye. TOMAS YOUNG: This is a drug called Coumadin, and it's a blood thinner. TINSLEY: Mr. Craig, aye. TOMAS YOUNG: This is Tizanidine. It's an anti-spasm medication. TINSLEY: Mr. Crapo, aye. TOMAS YOUNG: This is gabapentin. TINSLEY: Mr. Daschle ... TOMAS YOUNG: It's a nerve pain medication. TINSLEY: ... aye. TOMAS YOUNG: This is brupropion. TINSLEY: Mr. DeWine ... TOMAS YOUNG: It's an antidepressant. TINSLEY: ... aye. TOMAS YOUNG: This is omeprizol. TINSLEY: Mr. Dodd ... TOMAS YOUNG: It's for morning nausea. TINSLEY: ... aye. TOMAS YOUNG: And this is morphine. It's a narcotic. And in this situation the effect is not to get high, but to kill pain. And so, I have to take more and more of it to stop the pain. (END VIDEO CLIP) LAMB: For a moment, let's talk about technique. All through this documentary -- by the way, how long is it? DONAHUE: Eighty-seven minutes. I wanted it to be 85, because that's the length of the "March of the Penguins." We knew we couldn't be tedious. We knew we couldn't do a rant. We knew we couldn't lecture. So, please, Lord, let them out of the theater in time to go to dinner. And that's what we've done, 87 minutes. Tags: Brian_Lamb Phil_Donahue Tomas_Young Ellen_Spiro Phillip_Schopper Cindy_Sheehan Cathy_Smith Sadr_City Saddam_Hussein |
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"Body Of War" - Cowardly Congress-Spineless Senate 3 of 7 Interview Part 3 of 7 Q & A with Phil Donahue View it, in its entirety, at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Video/?ProgramID=1172 Read the transcript of the interview at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1172 Also check the interview with the suave, urbane and articulate Dr. Hans Blix, maliciously maligned by the Bush administration, politely answer all questions on his NOT finding any WMD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RnQaVS_rRE Washington, District of Columbia (United States) -Brian Lamb: - Chief Honcho at C-SPAN. -Phil Donahue: Renown Talk-Show Host; exiled for being skeptical, Executive Producer, Co-Director of "Body Of War". -Tomas Young: Honorably discharged Iraqi Invasion Veteran, T-4 Quadriplegic; Cenral character of this heart-wrenching documentary. -Ellen Spiro: Award winning Director and Educator. -Phillip Schopper: Documentary editor. -Bernadine Colish: "..assembled the whole thing for us." -Cathy Smith: Tomas Young's mother; Stalward physical/emotional/psychological supporter, tireless worker, and nurturer; with another son in Iraq. -Brie Young: Ex-wife of Tomas Young, also loving, affectionate, reduced to acting mainly as a servant. -Cindy Sheehan: Well known anti-war activist. __________Transcript_________ Phil Donahue Co-Director & Executive Producer SEN. ROBERT BYRD, D-WEST VIRGINIA: And in the name of the people of this country, in the name of the young men and women whose lives may be put on the line ... TINSLEY: Mr. Ensign, aye. Mr. Enzi, aye. SEN. BYRD: ... by the decision that this Senate will make is too weightening (ph), it is too far-reaching. And it's only fair to the people of America who are going to be asked to give -- in some instances everything that they've got, everything they have -- if a war ensues. And I tell you, my friends. I don't want that on my conscience. Not I. (END CLIPS FROM OCTOBER 2002) (END VIDEO CLIP) LAMB: Go back to the erectile dysfunction part. You know that there are people watching and saying, Phil Donahue is just appealing, you know, to the -- I don't know how to characterize it. Why did you have to go there, is what they're saying. DONAHUE: Because I think, first of all, everybody who enlists in the Army thinks they might come home dead. Nobody thinks of coming home like this. And I am sorry if people wince when they see that very personal scene. But I think more and more people ought to be wincing at the casualties from this war. The people who aren't wincing are the people who can't see the coffins coming home draped in the American flag. They can't see that, because the administration has prohibited the photographing of these coffins. By the way, the administration says you can't photograph this, and the entire mainstream establishment media in America said, OK. There's been no pushback here. I'm hardly the first person to make this point. I'm not claiming original arguments here, but this is the most sanitized. I mean, we're naming our invasion "shock and awe?" This is the White House Iraq Group, WHIG. These are the advertising agency warriors who name our -- "Rolling Thunder." They were the ones who wrote these talking points, the ones we just saw. And, I mean, you can't believe how superficial these are. I mean, this was the debate -- by the way, an unconstitutional debate. This Congress did not vote up or down. Don't bother them with Article 1, Section 8, as demanded by the Framers. What they do is say, "Here, Mr. President. If you think you have to, here's permission." Then if he goes and it doesn't work, they're able to say, "Well, wait a minute." CYA -- cover your butt. That's what they've done. LAMB: Do you think, though -- or I'll ask you what you think. Most of the people responding after that on the floor were Republicans. Do you think those people were insincere? Do you think they were lying? Do you think -- I mean, they're characterized ... DONAHUE: No, I think they were -- I think they were caught up in the heavy breathing. They were caught up in a belief that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, even though all they had to do was go to the Intelligence Committee, and they would have told them, "Well, wait. We're not sure. Let's let the U.N. finish its job." No, I don't think they all had a meeting and say let's, you know, let's -- they wanted to -- Pete Stark says in our film, from the floor of the House, "This president wants blood. He wants to go to war." And that's the fact of it. We had -- he swaggered before the cameras. "Bring it on." Every time I see Tomas Young I think, "Bring it on." You know, you see a young man in a wheelchair. You think, "Oh, poor guy. He can't walk." He can't do a lot of things. He can't cough. I mean, it just -- the more you -- the closer you get to this, the more it blows you back. Tags: Brian_Lamb Phil_Donahue Tomas_Young Ellen_Spiro Phillip_Schopper Cindy_Sheehan Cathy_Smith Sadr_City Saddam_Hussein |
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"Body Of War" - Cowardly Congress-Spineless Senate 4 of 7 Interview Part 4 of 7 Q & A with Phil Donahue View it, in its entirety, at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Video/?ProgramID=1172 Read the transcript of the interview at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1172 Also check the interview with the suave, urbane and articulate Dr. Hans Blix, maliciously maligned by the Bush administration, politely answer all questions on his NOT finding any WMD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RnQaVS_rRE Washington, District of Columbia (United States) -Brian Lamb: - Chief Honcho at C-SPAN. -Phil Donahue: Renown Talk-Show Host; exiled for being skeptical, Executive Producer, Co-Director of "Body Of War". -Tomas Young: Honorably discharged Iraqi Invasion Veteran, T-4 Quadriplegic; Cenral character of this heart-wrenching documentary. -Ellen Spiro: Award winning Director and Educator. -Phillip Schopper: Documentary editor. -Bernadine Colish: "..assembled the whole thing for us." -Cathy Smith: Tomas Young's mother; Stalward physical/emotional/psychological supporter, tireless worker, and nurturer; with another son in Iraq. -Brie Young: Ex-wife of Tomas Young, also loving, affectionate, reduced to acting mainly as a servant. -Cindy Sheehan: Well known anti-war activist. __________Transcript_________ Phil Donahue Co-Director & Executive Producer UNIDENTIFIED GOLD STAR MOM: I thank you so much. TOMAS YOUNG: Ah, well, thank you. And I'm terribly sorry for your loss. UNIDENTIFIED GOLD STAR MOM: Thank you. You know what? I'm glad you're alive. I'm glad you're alive. And I want to make sure you can (inaudible) with your feet. TOMAS YOUNG: Thank you. CATHY SMITH: I noticed in Washington, when we were there with the Gold Star Mothers for Peace and the MFSO, whose babies have not come home, whose husbands have not come home, I noticed them touching Tomas -- kissing him, hugging him, wanting to be near him. And I think there was a connection there, because he came home, and their family members didn't. (END VIDEO CLIP) DONAHUE: That's the saddest -- I still have trouble with that one. These people are experiencing a moment of vicarious closeness to their loved ones who didn't -- the loved one who did not come home. Tomas did. And they can't keep their eyes of him. And they can't -- and they want to touch him. You know, and the nation goes on here. I mean, I don't see a whole lot of outrage or concern. The mortgage crisis has taken us over -- and very serious, to be sure. Real serious. But I mean, the war is not even at the top of our list of concerns now. LAMB: Why has, or have the media backed off this story since the casualty rate went way down, the weekly deaths? It's averaging something like a death a day, and it used to be three times a day. DONAHUE: Right. By the way, civilians were killed just recently by a drone, an American drone -- I mean, civilians -- because of this high tech. I'm not sure. I know that I had a very unhappy life at MSNBC. Being against the war is not good for business. LAMB: How long were you there, by the way? And I know this has been talked about before, but did they ... DONAHUE: I was there for like -- I'm going to guess -- I think around three months. LAMB: Only three months? DONAHUE: Well, maybe four. LAMB: Nightly show. DONAHUE: Yes. And I was drawing ... LAMB: What time? Was it 8:00? DONAHUE: Yes. And I was gone before the rollout, before the invasion. The invasion was March of '03, and my show was cancelled before that. LAMB: What's the connection between your anti-war stance and being gone? DONAHUE: Well, we have a memo that was leaked to the "New York Times." The "New York Times" published the memo, which it was a consulting firm's memo to NBC News, which essentially said that Donahue's anti-war stance is really not going to be very -- it's not going to work against the flag waving on the other stations. It's important to remember that, by the way, every major metropolitan newspaper in this country supported this war. LAMB: Times? The "New York Times"? DONAHUE: The "Times," of course. The "New York Times," the "Boston Globe" -- pick a paper -- "Washington Post," "L.A. Times," Chicago. "Go, go, go! War!" Tags: Brian_Lamb Phil_Donahue Tomas_Young Ellen_Spiro Phillip_Schopper Cindy_Sheehan Cathy_Smith Sadr_City Saddam_Hussein |
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"Body Of War" - Cowardly Congress-Spineless Senate 5 of 7 Interview Part 5 of 7 Q & A with Phil Donahue View it, in its entirety, at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Video/?ProgramID=1172 Read the transcript of the interview at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1172 Also check the interview with the suave, urbane and articulate Dr. Hans Blix, maliciously maligned by the Bush administration, politely answer all questions on his NOT finding any WMD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RnQaVS_rRE Washington, District of Columbia (United States) -Brian Lamb: - Chief Honcho at C-SPAN. -Phil Donahue: Renown Talk-Show Host; exiled for being skeptical, Executive Producer, Co-Director of "Body Of War". -Tomas Young: Honorably discharged Iraqi Invasion Veteran, T-4 Quadriplegic; Cenral character of this heart-wrenching documentary. -Ellen Spiro: Award winning Director and Educator. -Phillip Schopper: Documentary editor. -Bernadine Colish: "..assembled the whole thing for us." -Cathy Smith: Tomas Young's mother; Stalward physical/emotional/psychological supporter, tireless worker, and nurturer; with another son in Iraq. -Brie Young: Ex-wife of Tomas Young, also loving, affectionate, reduced to acting mainly as a servant. -Cindy Sheehan: Well known anti-war activist. __________Transcript_________ Phil Donahue Co-Director & Executive Producer ..............there are some exceptions -- but we don't see people from the Iraq Veterans Against the War on television. We don't see military families speak out. Peace Now Jews -- how often do they get on television? The progressive voice is silenced in this country. There is no other way to put it. We just don't like them. They're scolds. They're complaining all the time. "They don't see anything good about America." This is what Richard Cohen is essentially saying. We see anything -- in other words, if you dissent, you don't love America. And somehow, after $1 billion of expense on this, and beating the drum about this, you know, "liberal" has become the political idea that dare not speak its name. LAMB: But a quick question on Ellen Spiro. Had she done other work like this? DONAHUE: Oh, yes. She's done several documentaries. But it still was a leap of faith, for her and -- you know, I called her cold. And I said, "Hey, I'm Phil Donahue." Thank God she recognized me. And we met at the Kansas City airport and went over to see Tomas. And she just bought this with both hands. And her work has been fabulous. LAMB: Here's this catheter clip. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TOMAS YOUNG: I can urinate. I can push out urine, but I don't push it all out. A lot of still stays, and it's stored in my bladder. And so, the reason for the catheting (ph) is to insert a catheter into my penis to drain out that excess urine, because if it's kept in there, it will crystallize and harden, and play a part in urinary track infections. CATHY SMITH: OK. What do I need to do? TOMAS YOUNG: All right. I'm going to lift up, and you're going to sit down under me. CATHY SMITH: OK. TOMAS YOUNG: OK. CATHY SMITH: OK. TOMAS YOUNG: Oh, this is -- it's hard to do from this angle. You going to help me out here, mom? CATHY SMITH: Yes. TOMAS YOUNG: It must be hard to do. I've been meaning to change those. OK, now, in this bag, you're going to take this tube out. OK. Instead of lubing up the end of that, you're going to lube the head of the penis. CATHY SMITH: OK. TOMAS YOUNG: You're going to -- use less lube -- you're just going to lube right over the hole. CATHY SMITH: Like that? TOMAS YOUNG: And now, you're just going to insert the cath. And I really kind of wanted you to put the glove on the hand that was going to touch the catheter, but OK. You seriously can push in a little quicker than that, Mom. CATHY SMITH: No, I can't. TOMAS YOUNG: Are you nervous? CATHY SMITH: Yes. TOMAS YOUNG: Oh. CATHY SMITH: I have never done this before. TOMAS YOUNG: OK. CATHY SMITH: Is it coming out? TOMAS YOUNG: Yes, it's coming out. CATHY SMITH: Oh. TOMAS YOUNG: Hey, Mom. Mom! We generally tend to watch what goes on up there. CATHY SMITH: I'm trying to move it so it doesn't just go everywhere. TOMAS YOUNG: Good plan. (LAUGHTER) Tags: Brian_Lamb Phil_Donahue Tomas_Young Ellen_Spiro Phillip_Schopper Cindy_Sheehan Cathy_Smith Sadr_City Saddam_Hussein |
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"Body Of War" - Cowardly Congress-Spineless Senate 6 of 7 Interview Part 6 of 7 Q & A with Phil Donahue View it, in its entirety, at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Video/?ProgramID=1172 Read the transcript of the interview at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1172 Also check the interview with the suave, urbane and articulate Dr. Hans Blix, maliciously maligned by the Bush administration, politely answer all questions on his NOT finding any WMD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RnQaVS_rRE Washington, District of Columbia (United States) -Brian Lamb: - Chief Honcho at C-SPAN. -Phil Donahue: Renown Talk-Show Host; exiled for being skeptical, Executive Producer, Co-Director of "Body Of War". -Tomas Young: Honorably discharged Iraqi Invasion Veteran, T-4 Quadriplegic; Cenral character of this heart-wrenching documentary. -Ellen Spiro: Award winning Director and Educator. -Phillip Schopper: Documentary editor. -Bernadine Colish: "..assembled the whole thing for us." -Cathy Smith: Tomas Young's mother; Stalward physical/emotional/psychological supporter, tireless worker, and nurturer; with another son in Iraq. -Brie Young: Ex-wife of Tomas Young, also loving, affectionate, reduced to acting mainly as a servant. -Cindy Sheehan: Well known anti-war activist. __________Transcript_________ Phil Donahue Co-Director & Executive Producer By the way, that song you heard, "No More," I met Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. And I had been on the Nader bus with him in '04 -- in 2000. I wasn't in '04. And I met him just by accident, a little over a year ago. I said, "Eddie, I'm doing an anti-Iraq War documentary." He says, "You want a song?" And I couldn't believe it. I said -- he comes to my apartment in New York, watches a very loose assembly of our film, goes home to Seattle, calls Tomas, talks to him for more than an hour. And in four days I had the signature song for our film, "No More," part of which you saw during that demonstration in Washington. I mean, for free. This -- I mean, this -- I've been so lucky, I tell you, Brian. And Tomas has been asked by Sire Records and Eddie Vedder to put together an album of anti-war songs. And it's out. It's a double album called "Body of War." Tomas' picture is on the cover of the CD. Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon -- I mean, the people. Eddie's "No More" is on there. So, that's a -- I mean, that's a lucky break, because I'm in the music world now. We've been in "Billboard." Holy cow! And we're going to need every bit of this to make this fly. LAMB: What's the DVD eventually going to sell for for the general public? DONAHUE: I don't -- how much is a DVD? Is it -- it may be $15. LAMB: And do you have a Web site that you've set up around this? DONAHUE: Bodyofwar.com. Bodyofwar.com. Let's make the case here that our film was produced by me and co-directed by Ellen Spiro and myself. The record comes out by way of Sire Records. And they are committing their profits to good causes and anti-war causes. LAMB: The next clip uses a lot of our video, which you'll see. And it's about the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which we cover every year, plus all the other dinners in town. So, let's watch and see how you do this. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BUSH: Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere. (LAUGHTER) Nope. No weapons over there. Maybe under here. (LAUGHTER) (APPLAUSE) LAURA BUSH, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES: I said to him the other day, "George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you're going to have to stay up later." (LAUGHTER) Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife. (LAUGHTER) (APPLAUSE) CATHY SMITH: They are so insolated. They don't want to know about people like Tomas and the 4 or 5 percent of the population that is actually sacrificing for this war. (BEGIN CLIPS FROM OCTOBER 2002) REP. HEATHER WILSON, R-NEW MEXICO: There are risks of action, but there are also risks of inaction. SEN. ARLEN SPECTER, R-PENNSYLVANIA: The risk of inaction is worse than the risk of action. REP. JOSEPH PITTS, R-PENNSYLVANIA: Inaction is more costly than action. REP. DANA ROHRABACHER, R-CALIFORNIA: There will be no action that we could possibly take that's going to get the support of people who always find an excuse for doing nothing, when it takes courage to step forward. PRESIDENT BUSH: If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal ... TINSLEY: Mr. Nickles ... PRESIDENT BUSH: ... an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball ... TINSLEY: Mr. Reid of Nevada ... PRESIDENT BUSH: ... it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. TINSLEY: Mr. Roberts ... SEN. JOHN KERRY, D-MASSACHUSETTS: The estimates are publicly that it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. SEN. TIM HUTCHINSON, R-ARKANSAS: A nuclear weapon would take no longer than a few months to produce. Tags: Brian_Lamb Phil_Donahue Tomas_Young Ellen_Spiro Phillip_Schopper Cindy_Sheehan Cathy_Smith Sadr_City Saddam_Hussein |
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"Body Of War" - Cowardly Congress-Spineless Senate 7 of 7 Interview Part 7 of 7 Q & A with Phil Donahue View it, in its entirety, at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Video/?ProgramID=1172 Read the transcript of the interview at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1172 Also check the interview with the suave, urbane and articulate Dr. Hans Blix, maliciously maligned by the Bush administration, politely answer all questions on his NOT finding any WMD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RnQaVS_rRE Washington, District of Columbia (United States) -Brian Lamb: - Chief Honcho at C-SPAN. -Phil Donahue: Renown Talk-Show Host; exiled for being skeptical, Executive Producer, Co-Director of "Body Of War". -Tomas Young: Honorably discharged Iraqi Invasion Veteran, T-4 Quadriplegic; Cenral character of this heart-wrenching documentary. -Ellen Spiro: Award winning Director and Educator. -Phillip Schopper: Documentary editor. -Bernadine Colish: "..assembled the whole thing for us." -Cathy Smith: Tomas Young's mother; Stalward physical/emotional/psychological supporter, tireless worker, and nurturer; with another son in Iraq. -Brie Young: Ex-wife of Tomas Young, also loving, affectionate, reduced to acting mainly as a servant. -Cindy Sheehan: Well known anti-war activist. __________Transcript_________ Phil Donahue Co-Director & Executive Producer LAMB: The reason why I mentioned that -- you see her all through this, and that's the first time you ever hear anything negative, if that is negative, I mean, when she's explaining what actually happened. What can you tell us about her? Do you know her? DONAHUE: She was -- well, I was a guest at the wedding. And I've obviously been -- she would drive me to the airport on my visits to Kansas City. She loved Tomas. LAMB: We're going to show -- the last clip is -- well, you know what it's going to be. I haven't told you what it's going to be, but it's going to put the capper on all this. DONAHUE: Well, you mean on this domestic situation. LAMB: On -- yes, on the domestic situation. DONAHUE: You know, I just -- she really -- she thought she could make this go. Tomas thought he could, as well. And ... LAMB: Well, let's watch that, and then we can wrap it up. DONAHUE: All right. LAMB: Here's the last. DONAHUE: Here it is. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRIE YOUNG: Well, in my new apartment, my one-room studio -- small apartment. What he told me was that he wanted to end it before we started hating each other. TOMAS YOUNG: We got to the point where we would start talking, and slowly the conversation would turn into a bicker. And it just -- we tried going to therapy together. That didn't really work out that great. BRIE YOUNG: We fought over everything -- I don't know -- me going out with friends. I mean, I was out of the house a lot more than he. I had a job, and would go out with friends after work sometimes. TOMAS YOUNG: One of the big hurdles that kept me from asking for the separation sooner was because I was worried that I wouldn't be able to function as well on my own. I'm actually getting food for myself. Oh, my meatloaf's still in there! I'm not cooking yet. I'm still a nuclear chef. You want to film my frig? That's -- a little on MTV Cribs now? I don't really understand why they give you an award for getting shot, but they do. And that's what that is. My wife liked to have these kind of things up on display, like this machine-autographed certificate of appreciation from our president. I already know I got shot. I have an everyday reminder of it. I don't need to come out here to my living room and see a flag and a purple heart to tell me what situation I'm in. MUSIC LYRICS: Here's what you get, an M-16 and a Kevlar vest. You might come home with one less leg, but this thing will surely keep a bullet at your chest. So, come on, come on. Sign up, come on. This one's nothing like Vietnam, except for the bullet, except for the bomb. Except for the ... UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ready and go. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marker. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And action. TOMAS YOUNG: I was paralyzed in Iraq, and I came home to find Jim Talent opposed to the stem cell research that could help me walk again. SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL, D-MISSOURI: I'm Claire McCaskill, and I approve this message. Tags: Brian_Lamb Phil_Donahue Tomas_Young Ellen_Spiro Phillip_Schopper Cindy_Sheehan Cathy_Smith Sadr_City Saddam_Hussein |