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iraqi Prime Minister
Maliki's meeting with President Obama today and I should say our own a
Michael Brooks has a PC in al Jazeera America
I he can write it well he has Matt
fix our spelling errors form third I mean I don't know michael is a letter
okay it's good to know he has a piece about the
US reparations for iraq Iraq war are long overdue and
I just I'd you know there's not much to
a commentator on theirs but there was a household survey iraqis that came out to
the
couple weeks ago and it shows
that if the US had never invaded
I am lead but for the US invasion
270,000 Iraqis died violently
I US troops are directly responsible for about ninety thousand civilian deaths
a malicious for another ninety thousand of those killed by only sixty percent
were shot 12 percent died from car bombs
some 180 thousand died because the destruction of public health
infrastructure
I'll roughly a you're talking about 450
thousand I iraqis
under this less passive measure under the passive measures
a Family Guy 250,000 iraqi
Iraqis died I it is still
an ongoing mass there I
I don't know what else there is to to say on I don't need a riding bike
Michael in all honesty I like to joke but he made it would've
fantastic piece and I think people should really because I think it makes a
strong case which is
look if this had been a war wear whatever you know the people different
feeling than this but by a
least from my perspective certainly the war at least we went into Afghanistan
was justified
carrying the war on for 112 years and
and fighting be on when it made any sense because they were actually people
if they did something to us that we
news to go after in some way and raghida got after them another way to enough
time for that whole thing
but we do something there iraq nothing need to be done
in fact we were lied our way it going into their bye the *** cheney's or so
as I share with you i think he should have to sell his daughter Liz and use
that money for reparations although frankly
people would probably heat up by people to take ur I'm
so you know we we did something that is pretty
which came out to war crime yeah and and when we talk about chemical weapons were
used white phosphorus in for Lucia
which we still are seeing birth defects that we we don't even know
you know you were really am as well I'm sorry
depleted uranium I shelled and trailers we r
the time when I wish we had all those old-style
moderate republicans like mark hatfield who would always stand up we look to go
into wars
we were the first people on the ground in hiroshima after the bar
and would say cover my people are terrible war was good he was there he
sought
what we've done in Iraq is a crime their people responsible for to frankly
should be in prison and in terms of reparations I simply don't see how
we couldn't of a reparations for what we did there and there's many ways again
this is not a poor countries like argument over social security other
things there's a whole lotta money sitting on a whole lotta places
yeah we just to chill United not to do it with you choose to let do
to let people that got really rich of this we're continually be rich
I but there's its its sickening frankly
when you put the numbers out there as you just did what we did
if you're an american you believe in what you were talking about this country
in your religion you wanna still believe in it and I don't see how
you can walk away from something like that yeah we see no I money when we want
to you are when we want to bomb Libya we want to bomb Syria
the money sneezing and the money comes flowing out you know
frankly with how much money do we give Blackwater to drive around with
you know providing people in Iraq maybe some of that money could be real
repositioned in and put the way they could help people
you know it is ridiculous we ride the money flowing to the Defense Department
everywhere else
but we don't have money for the other things mostly because things are tight
and there we need to fix the debt and all that crap you know
yes all internet yesterday I think your friend your for you know im also but
certainly you know who is Alex Lawson who is a friend of mine and i'd
business part about it we act radio address to run social security works
showed up to fix the debt event they had their
the can kick back event and they had a happy I
phone can and I we actually had that nicked rano guy
on the program some time ago writer alec showed up dressed as a corporate pirate
dress as a pirate got up in for the media there and got a lot a great media
attention outside berlin is that
and told me as a corporate I really why was it that these corporate Pirates
we're happy to take the people Social Security well among the board members a
fix a date you have five hundred million dollars thing in offshore accounts
hasn't been taxed today we should take than $500 million start with that how
about that
yeah that was fantastic I did notice that I'm glad you brought it up
cliff and I gotta say goodbye but as always
a pleasure and we will talk to you next week alright thanks man
appreciate it cliff Schecter folks