Coleen Rowley Discusses Afghanistan and Iran Issues — Transcript

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1. 0:04well there was a a at least a mechanism
2. 0:08now with the media coverage of these
3. 0:11Massacre to uh hopefully make the
4. 0:14administration see the light that a
5. 0:17Afghanistan is a losing cause well today
6. 0:19I had an article that was posted by a
7. 0:21Facebook friend by Nima shirazi
8. 0:24recalling Peggy Nan's speech uh Peggy
9. 0:28Nunan was the speech writer for
10. 0:30and she uh wrote back in fuia when the
11. 0:34the Blackwater contractors were murdered
12. 0:36how barbaric this was and these weren't
13. 0:38really people these were barbarians and
14. 0:41our troops would would have to uh uh
15. 0:43seek Vengeance so now that it's our
16. 0:46troops that uh are more and more
17. 0:49committing the massacres we don't hear
18. 0:50so much from Peggy Nunan anymore um but
19. 0:53the the people who are propagandizing
20. 0:55that have created these wars are people
21. 0:57like that like Peggy n sitting in her
22. 0:59comfort aable armchair and they've
23. 1:01caused this problem they've caused all
24. 1:03these atrocities they should be held
25. 1:05just as responsible you know as the
26. 1:08propagandist for the hate and fear we're
27. 1:10seeing the same thing happen with Iran
28. 1:13uh we now have a majority of people in
29. 1:15the United States the polls tell us that
30. 1:17would sooner uh the United States attack
31. 1:19Iran uh and they they 70% of the country
32. 1:23believes that Iran has a nuclear bomb
33. 1:25which is complete propaganda it's a
34. 1:26complete false fiction but 70% of the
35. 1:29country it why is that the case because
36. 1:32of propaganda in the M mainstream media
37. 1:35uh which is very sad the the troops of
38. 1:37course are duped into believing these
39. 1:39things after they've served two or three
40. 1:41tours they see the light they want to
41. 1:43get out of it many of them commit
42. 1:45suicide uh we have a veteran committing
43. 1:48suicide every 80 minutes in the country
44. 1:50right now 900 attempt suicide each month
45. 1:55and suicidal and homicidal violence are
46. 1:58a natural byproduct of the war
47. 2:00Iran the the conservative estimate is it
48. 2:03will be three times as catastrophic as
49. 2:07the war in in Iraq that's the
50. 2:09conservative estimate I mean our
51. 2:11generals are the ones right now who are
52. 2:13putting the the brakes on they've tried
53. 2:15at least but what will happen is if
54. 2:18Israel attacks today's yesterday's haret
55. 2:21newspaper says BB prepares Israeli
56. 2:24public for Attack on Iran so if he
57. 2:27Netanyahu decides to attack the problem
58. 2:30will be that Obama will feel forced
59. 2:33through political pressure uh we have
60. 2:36almost our entire Congress now that have
61. 2:38signed these resolutions to back Israel
62. 2:40so we're going to get to the same
63. 2:45[Music]
64. 2:46position