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Title: "Body Of War" - Cowardly Congress-Spineless Senate 2 of 7 View count: 3982 Rating: 4.8095236 (21 ratings) Description: 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, Author: 913Tripolis44 |
