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BBC NewsNight Video - Iraq Veterans March to New Orleans
Inigo Gilmore and Teresa Smith's film on the March to New Orleans
aired on Newsnight, Mar. 29, '06 at 10.30pm on BBC2
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March 29th, 2006 2:58 pm
'If you start looking at them as humans, then how are you gonna kill them?'
They are a publicity nightmare for the US military: an ever-growing number of veterans of the Iraq conflict who are campaigning against the war. To mark the third anniversary of the invasion this month, a group of them marched on Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. Inigo Gilmore and Teresa Smith joined them
Guardian/UK
http://michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6354
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Thanks for posting this. It is dramatic. It has further changed my views. I am ashamed for what we stand for and for all this senseless killing. I'm 54 years old. I never went to Vietnam. I know many who did. I was a fireman/emergency medical technician for over 16 years and went on many emergencies of our Vietman vets who were so fucked up. Some committed suicide. I'll never forget the rude awakening one morning just before shift change at 8 a.m. when I went on a vet who had shot himself in his garage, used a vice and a makeshift pully to pull the trigger of his shotgun and deliver the killing shot to his chest. There was no doing cpr on this poor soul.
We are creating many, many suicides for this next several decades, so many lost souls who will carry the horrors of their military duty forever. I am so ashamed at what it is we do.