Le Show; 2003-04-06; 2003-04-13

You From deep inside your radio. From the edge of America from the home of the homeless. It's a show. Well, we may be preempted. Your local station may have forgotten to start the tape machine. Or you may have forgotten to set your clock ahead. But nonetheless, it's a show. More apologies of the week. The fog watch. A candidate for the quote of the war. And news from the rear.

Excuse me? That's what I said. You've heard enough news from the front. But you'll hear more. And 41 calls 43. Because that's what they do. And that's what we do. This is Lesho. From the edge of America. Stay tuned. First thing we do, though, is I read the trades for you. I know it's been bumped up to first position. And only the public radio gremlins can really explain why. From advertising age, ladies and gentlemen, you've waited for this. White House to end drugs and terror ads. Yes, I will. I'll read it for you. What am I going to do?

Bring it to the news. Well, yeah. The White House anti-drug office will end its controversial drugs and terror advertising campaign. And it will also cease a polarizing $8 million annual study that found that ads aimed at youth were not working. And it pitted the drug office against a partnership for a drug-free America. Talk about a drug war. The drugs and terror ads called Nick and Norm for the two figures portrayed in them will end in May. The campaign first broke five months after 9-11 with two Super Bowl ads that cost a drug office more than $3 million to run. The spot centered on the idea that people who purchased drugs help fund terrorism. Later ads replaced terrorism with terror, suggesting drug buy supported drug cartel attacks on innocent civilians. The terrorism ads were produced outside the partnership for a drug-free America.

Hence the controversy. The partnership said the ads were off strategy and refused to do any of the spots. Partnership chairman Alan Rosenstein ripped the campaign in a congressional hearing. What's he been smoking? The battle coming to a drug office already wounded by complaints over an ad agency's initial stewardship of the account bolstered congressional critics who tried to cut spending dramatically. They eventually reduced it by about $25 million to about $150 million a year. Legislation to continue the program is expected soon to be proposed by a bipartisan group of senators. They said last week the new law would likely include language limiting the drug office's ability to go outside the partnership. Ooh, the partnership flexes its muscles ladies and gentlemen.

This is your brain on partnership. So one more month to see Nick and Norm chewing the fat over drugs and terrorism ladies and gentlemen. Spend your time wisely, won't you? Stay tuned. This is Lesho and as is my want. Me, I'm Harry Shira, thank you for asking. I'm reading the trades for you. From TV Week is your television watching you. You know the answer already, don't you? Could the federal government find out what you're watching on TV even if you're not the subject of a criminal investigation if you're a satellite or TVO owner? The answer is yes.

Under the USA Patriot Act, federal government can force a non-cable TV operator to disclose every show you have watched. Government just has to say the request is related to a terrorism investigation. That's easy to say, I just said it. Plus your TV provider is prohibited from informing you that the feds have requested the information. Your radio is not listening to you though, that's the good news. Ladies and gentlemen, there's always good news when I read the trades for you. So we have a very different strategic situation, don't we? Then we had a week ago. We could go, everybody in the media was kind of carping about the war plan. And today, of course, what a plan, what an amazing plan.

They're all saying, well, all right. So news from the rear, let's, let's look at what you haven't heard as of yet. From Australia, they may be the ones facing danger on the battlefield. But US soldiers in Iraq are being asked to pray for President George W. Bush. Thousands of Marines have been given a pamphlet called, quote, a Christian's duty, unquote, a mini prayer book, which includes a tear-out section to be mailed to the White House, pledging the soldier who sends it in has been praying for Bush. It's not what I mean. President Bush. Quote, I have committed to pray for you, your family, your staff, and our troops during this time of uncertainty and toolt. May God's peace be your guide, says the pledge, according to a journalist embedded with coalition forces. The pamphlet, produced by a group called in-touch ministries, offers a daily prayer to be made for the US President of Born Again Christian who likes to invoke his God in speeches. Last Sunday's was, pray that the President and his advisors will seek God in his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding.

Monday's read, pray that the President and his advisors will be strong and courageous to do what is right regardless of critics. British Dateline Basera, this is from Ajance France Press, cheese-eating news service. British soldiers have been scavenging the debris of war for Iraqi army boots because the British army variety are disintegrating in the hot desert sun. Guardsman Lee Williams of the Desert Rats Royal Scotts Dragoon Guards spend less money on the name and more on the boots, guys. Found a new pair of boots in an abandoned barracks, which he said were lighter and more comfortable in the British footwear. He had been forced to swap his footwear for the Iraqi style because no replacements were available for his own disintegrating boots. Defense Department officials admit to some regrets over the embedding program.

When the program was hatched, defense leaders thought the technological challenges of broadcasting from a battle zone would naturally limit coverage. That's a concession by a defense official, maybe Tory Clark, maybe the lady in pink and purple. They envisioned television reporters finding time in a strong enough satellite signal to broadcast live only once or twice a day. Instead, television reporters are beaming grainy footage of battles and interviews on the flyover video phones from the back of a speeding humvee. Quote, we just thought the natural challenge as a broadcasting from the field would restrict it, said the official. Had we known it would be this wide open, we might have considered restrictions. Unquote. Never too late for second thoughts. Oh, this from a book. A World Transformed by George Herbert Walker Bush. Published 1999 quote. We should not march into Baghdad to occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero, assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable guerrilla, urban guerrilla war.

It could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater instability. Unquote, George H. W. Bush. 41. Written in 1999 obviously about his thoughts at the end of Gulf War I. In addition, American coalition forces are using depleted uranium shells in the war against Iraq. There is a United Nations resolution, remember them, which classifies the munitions, not musicians, munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction. Oh, my God, depleted uranium contaminates land, causes ill health and cancers among the soldiers using the weapons, the armies they target and civilians leading to birth defects in children. The ex-director of the Pentagon's depleted uranium project, Professor Doug Rocky, a one-time US Army colonel who was given the task by the DOD of cleaning the depleted uranium after Gulf War I said use of DU was quote a war crime. That's one fellow's opinion, ladies and gentlemen, just one fellow.

The Times of London, owned by Rupert Murdoch, a pro-war newspaper, says this. The first signs of exasperation among senior coalition officials began to show this week at the growing number of false alarms over finds of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We'll just look in your own arsenal. Wouldn't that not a day passes at US Central Command without a flurry of excitement over the discovery somewhere of a cache of powder, bottles of suspicious liquid or suspected long-range missiles. But this week's crop of WMD alerts turned out once again not to include the smoking gun that coalition politicians need in which coalition generals insist they will definitely find. Suspected cyanide found dumped in the Euphrates is still under investigation. An initial test showed positive results, but a second did not, so show such a clear reading. Brigadier General Vince Brooks at CENTCOM admitted when questioned about his announcement earlier this week that a facility containing a large number of suspicious bottles had been found in the west of Iraq.

We think now it was probably a NBC training school. I don't think they mean the network. I think nuclear, biological, carochemical weapons, not an operational facility. These bottles were samples and testing is ongoing. He said. Which would bring us, I guess, to our fog watch. It would. There's no music for the fog watch yet, ladies and gentlemen, but you never know. Fog watch name, of course, for the fog of war and more recently for the fog news channel, which just dissipates much of the of the difficulty and visibility. So apropos what we're just talking about US troops early in the week from Reuters US troops have found thousands of boxes containing vials of unidentified liquid and powder as well as manuals on chemical warfare at a plant near Baghdad according to a US officer. It's unclear at this point what the vials contain and we're sending a team of experts to examine them, he said.

I believe the fog news channel reported that this was a find of potential weapons of mass destruction. Later in the week, American officials admitted the thousands of boxes of white powder were explosives. Various media outlets had suggested they may have made the first discovery of chemical weapons in Iraq. That was the claim that the Latifia Latifia, a queen, that queen Latifia, the just Latifia period. Complex was a suspicious site was made by US colonel. He also claimed to have discovered nerve agent antidote and Arabic documents relating to chemicals. Must be one of our rare Arabic speaking kernels. Colonel John Peabody, an engineer brigade commander with the third infantry division, had stated troops found those thousands of boxes. He said they discovered atropine used to counter the effects of nerve agents. The facility had been identified by the IAEA or as president styles at the IEAEAEAEAE as a suspected chemical biological and nuclear weapon site.

UN inspectors visited the plant at least nine times as recently as February 18th, but the powder turns out to be explosive. So far. But more fog surrounding a reporter for the fog news channel, Heraldo Rivera. I said reporter. Did I do that? From a senior sent-com official via a memo, internal memo at CNN regarding Heraldo Rivera. Quote, he was kicked out for violation of operational security. 101st airborne will bring him out. DoD guidance is very clear on this matter. He was not part of the in bed program. He was there on his own. He is being pulled. He just doesn't know it yet. He has not gotten the word. The violation of operational security was that he revealed the location of units he was in and they're probable. Vector of March.

However, maybe he wasn't kicked out. Later, this report, Fox News Channel executives and the Pentagon reached a deal in which correspondent Heraldo Rivera, who raised the military's IR when he reported operational details, will leave Iraq voluntarily, rather than be expelled. Fox and the Pentagon agreed he would leave on his own. US officials told CNN on Monday morning Rivera violated the carnal rule of war reporting by giving away crucial details of military plans during a fog news channel broadcast from Iraq. He told his photographer to aim the camera at the sand in front of him. He then outlined a map of Iraq and showed the relative location of Baghdad and his location with the 101st airborne. He then showed where the 101st would be going next. He gave away the big picture stuff. A senior military official told CNN. He went down on the sand and drew where the forces are going. Rivera said he had heard nothing about being expelled until he called network headquarters for a scheduled live broadcast. Quote in MSNBC, Rivera used to work at NBC. Quote is so pathetic a cable news network that they have to do anything they can to attract attention. He said you can rest assured with whatever they're saying is a pack of lies.

Unquote. Nevertheless, Fox News executives pleaded with Pentagon officials not to expel Rivera. Pentagon officials stood their ground and assisted he go. The deal for the voluntary departure was then arrived at. How was that arrived at? Do we know that? Do we know how the Fox News network goes to the Pentagon and says don't expel him? Will will let him be voluntarily removed? Rivera accused NBC as I've said of spending spreading lies. He said all was well between him and the military. I'm further in the country that I've ever have been. Over the weekend, Geraldo Rivera filed his first report since leaving Iraq. It was a report that concentrated on the battle in the northern part of Iraq.

Involving battles involving Kurdish troops, he filed the report, although it was hard to exactly pick out this fact. He filed a report from Kuwait, which if if you look at the map is at the south end of Iraq. So that's some good war reporting to be at the opposite end of the country from the report. Anyway, the question ladies and gentlemen was asked, how does the Fox News channel reach that agreement with the Pentagon? I don't know. I just don't know. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch said Wednesday Americans have an inferiority complex about the world's opinion and that Iraqis eventually will welcome you as troops as liberators. We worry about what people think about is too much in this country. We have an inferiority complex. It seems Murdoch said at the Milken Institute Global Conference out here in Santa Monica. I think I think it's out here. I think what's important is that the world respects us.

Rupert Murdoch. He's talking about America. Yes, he's a citizen. It cost him, but he's a citizen. The head of news corps had a long work at heavily influenced the US and global economies while creating political instability in the Middle East and elsewhere. Very sage. The perception of America by Iraqis and citizens of other Middle Eastern countries will play a critical role in a global economic recovery panelists said. The conference was sponsored by the Economic Think Tank, the Milken Institute. Yes. Yes, he paid his, he paid his penalty. He was a felon, but he paid his penalty and then he set up an institute. What's your problem? Rupert? Oh, yeah. More about Rupert. The European Commission said this week he can go ahead with his first major television venture in continental Europe, taking over an Italian satellite broadcaster. So he can ensure, I guess, that Rupert won't be kicked out of Italy. And now, ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature. Oh, and we have major, major countries apologizing this week. The apologies of the week. This will be a little start out in alphabetical order and then deteriorate from their president.

Jacques Chirac of France sent a personal apology to the Queen of England for the desecration of a British war cemetery near Bologna by anti-war protesters and attempted to reassure her that the French are on Britain's side in the Iraqi conflict. Downing Street said it unreservedly welcomed Monsieur Chirac's sentiments. He sent the letter to the Queen in France, she reads it fluently. Reflected that the anger and shame widely felt in France over the defiling of the cemetery at a top, which contains the grieves of 11,000 British servicemen, most of whom fell during World War II. Sorry, World War I. Schrock apologized. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has apologized to the Bush administration over comments that the US may not have invaded Iraq if Al Gore had been elected president.

She said she'd given New Zealand's ambassador to Washington directions to give her apology wherever he felt he had to convey it. Clark said, I can't do more than say, look, I intended no offense and I apologize for the offense, which it obviously has created. Calling a bid to ban tobacco in Rochester, New York, his candles in the park statement and admitting it was done for shock value. Only Rochester mayor Walter Horman said yes, said this week he apologizes for the remarks and announced he will not seek reelection when his term ends in November. Backlash resulting from his controversial proposal was not the reason he decided against pursuing a second term, but it did provide a way to announce his intentions. The smoking incident was just a vehicle. I thought you're not running again. So you don't need to be subtle. China, China apologizes.

Let me find out. Well, first of all, Britain, Tony Blair had a junior official in his defense ministry apologize on his behalf for saying the two British soldiers had been executed. Officials were forced to release to admit this week they had no concrete evidence on how the two royal engineers had been killed. Mr. Judgement on footage shown on Al Jazeera. Adam Ingram, the deputy junior defense minister regrets any hurt. Cause to the family. Peter Arnett apologized. He's the other reporter who got into trouble this week. He went on a rocky TV said this war is not working. Of course, that was last week's version of events. Then he apologized. NBC fired him. NBC stood by him until the fog news channel attacked. Then NBC fired him. After. After our net apologized. Then Peter Arnett got hired by an English tabloid newspaper. And then he said he didn't apologize.

China. I got China. I got China here somewhere China. Here it is. China apologized this week for not doing a better job of informing people about severe acute respiratory syndrome. It's an international medical team went to the city where it believed the mystery illness may have first broken out. The admission extraordinary for a government that rarely acknowledges fault came after escalating criticism abroad and one day after the health minister explicitly said China had followed its own rules and dealing with the problem. Today we apologize to everyone. Okay, that's my favorite apology of the year right there. Somebody saw that into a sampler. Would you please? Today we apologize to everyone said Lee Liming director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control. Our medical departments and our mass media suffered poor coordination. We weren't able to muster our forces and helping provide everyone with scientific publicity and allowing the masses to get hold of this sort of knowledge. That's right. They still say the masses.

Ladies and gentlemen. The British newspaper, the son. Another tabloid has been forced to make an embarrassing apology after naming and shaming the wrong man as a sex offender. Owing to a mix up by a photograph agency, the tabloid mistakenly used a photograph of David Gasley in place of a picture of Christopher Harris, who has been banned from going near children for life after grouping young girls in great Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth, everyone. An apology to Mr. Gasley who's portrait appeared last Saturday in the sun above the headline. Face of kid ban pervert is published this week. We sincerely apologize to Mr. Gasley for the hurt and embarrassment caused by our reports at the paper. The paper has pioneered the name and shame campaign against convicted sex offenders. No, not that paper. It's pardon me. The news of the world and other tabloid, which is also.

So, ladies and gentlemen, those would be the apologies of the week. There's more news from the rear. Let's get all of it out of the way here before we move along. This from the Arab News, a Saudi Arabian newspaper. I'll tell you that because I don't know anything more about this story except it's in the Arab News. Two Western journalists have arrived safely back in Kuwait City after being arrested, beaten up, and deprived of food and water in Iraq by members of the US Army's military police. Arab News has learned that Luis, Castro, and Victor Silva, both reporters for Portuguese television, were held for four days, had their equipment, vehicle, and videotapes confiscated, and then were escorted out of Iraq by the 101st. Where Harado used to be. Despite possessing the proper unilateral journalist accreditation, both journalists were detained.

Their ordeal at the hands of the Americans was in stark contrast to that. Received by News Day journalists in Baghdad, who yesterday, or this week in Jordan, described this, humane their treatment at the hands of their Iraqi interrogators, despite being in cells where they heard people being tortured next door. But, you know, that's next door. We criticized the Iraqi irregulars for using schools as places to hide out. That's not right. That violates the rules of war. Russell Skeleton reports for British newspaper use US special forces have taken up strategic positions in three secondary schools, located in a densely populated residential area of a city in northern Iraq. The schools, which have been closed since the war began, are located near a prominent Christian church and within 200 meters of a United Nations complex. The decision to locate the special forces in his school in a residential area appears to run counter to US policy.

And finally, at the top of the week's news, ladies and gentlemen, UPI reports on the old familiar story, how. Oh, wait a minute. No, that's not, that's the, that's not the end. Is it? No, we got more stuff. We got more news from the rear. Please, please. I was, I was running out and then I didn't run out. From a Norwegian newspaper, a US based Norwegian weapons inspector. Is that confusing enough? He's a Norwegian weapons inspector, but he lives here. He accuses the United States and Secretary of State Colin Powell of providing the UN Security Council with incorrect and misleading information about a Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction. Yorn, soldier home, said the USA's basis for going to war is thin and called it a slap in the face to the United Nations weapons inspector. He said Colin Powell's report to the Security Council was full of holes. Much of what he said was wrong. It did not match up at all with our information. The entire speech was misleading.

Asked if the Americans lied. He said lies a strong word, but yes, the information Powell presented about Iraq's nuclear program was simply incorrect. We received much incomplete and poor intelligence information from the Americans and our cooperation developed accordingly. Much of what has been claimed about WND's has proven to be sheer nonsense. Britain's home secretary says the reason for war agenda of ridding Iraq of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction has slipped down the scale of political importance. He said he hoped no weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq. David Blunkett dismissed the need to find them. The chemicals that were dumped in the river, I think it's the review of Fred. Yes, it is. According to the telegraph of England, it's mustard gas and cyanide that was found there, but they're investigating. Under the watchful gaze of heavily armed troops, water is being taken directly from the river, cleaned and then piped into buckets. Most residents were pleased, residents of Nasiria.

Are pleased that water is being provided. That's part of the story. Some pointed out that the water problem only arose at the beginning of the war when American aircraft destroyed the city's water treatment plant. More news on the coalition of the willing ladies and gentlemen. Bulgaria signed an agreement this week with the United States for deployment to the Gulf region of a 97 member military unit for protection against chemical and biological weapons. Bulgaria and the United States reached this agreement about the status and tasks of the unit clearing the way clearing the way for it to leave. The United States will cover all expenses for the maintenance and transport of the unit said the Bulgarian defense ministry officials didn't say when the unit was going to leave or where it was going when we'll ask Geraldo. Local media in Bulgaria have reported it to be deployed in Jordan.

The lead varied at the end of the story. Thank you associated press in February. The Bulgarian parliament voted that the unit could join the U.S. led coalition only if it was deployed in a country neighboring Iraq and not Iraq itself and would not be engaged in combat operations. The coalition of the semi willing. And Solomon Islands Prime Minister Sir Alan Kimakiza said this week. Thanks, but no thanks. Oh, we did this already. We did the Solomon Islands. Don't need to repeat that ladies and gentlemen. Finally, how you get tribesmen on your side. The tribes have been reported crossing sides now taking the side of the coalition. A British official told the U.P.I. the Iraqi tribes knew instinctively what was going on. The week that the Washington Post reported that 70 million dollars have been spent on the Afghans by the CIA paying the Afghan tribes to turn. They all knew that figure and several said openly that Iraq was a much more important country and would cost a lot more.

I'm scared because I've followed my chair and I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs. Clowns to the left of me, took us to the right here and I am stuck in the middle with you. Yes, I'm stuck in the middle with you and I'm wondering what it is I should do. It's so hard to keep this mouth on my face. There's some joy and I'm all over the place. Clowns to the left of me, took us to the right here and I am stuck in the middle with you. When you started out with nothing and you're proud that you're a self-made man.

And your fans, they all come calling to tell me what I'm about to say. B. Clowns to the left of me, took us to the right here and I am stuck in the middle with you and I am stuck in the middle with you. Clowns to the left of me, took us to the right here and I am stuck in the middle with you and I am stuck in the middle with you. When you started out with nothing and you're proud that you're a self-made man.

And your fans, they all come calling to tell me what I'm about to say. B. Clowns to the left of me, took us to the right here and I am stuck in the middle with you. B. Clowns to the left of me, took us to the right here and I am stuck in the middle with you and I am stuck in the middle with you. Clowns to the left of me, took us to the right here and I am stuck in the middle with you and I am stuck in the middle with you. Ladies and gentlemen, last week we revealed on this broadcast thanks to the Washington Post that Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clark is according to a high official at the Pentagon colorblind.

This week another interesting fact emerged thanks to the New York Times, her previous experience, she doesn't have a lot of experience or any in the military. Her previous experience before becoming an assistant secretary of defense in charge of flacking at the Pentagon briefings. She represented the cable industry when it infuriated consumers with rising rates and poor service. That's a good background for being a Pentagon spokeswoman representing the cable industry. No, your rates aren't too high, your incomes too low. All right, collateral damage, other collateral damage in the war. NBC has reportedly suspended high definition television transmissions as a result of the attack on Iraq presumably to use the satellite capacity for more news feeds. So by that $8,000 thing and then just pray that we don't have a war, see poisonous smoke rising from burning oil fields in southern Iraq or from oil filled ditches and bombing fires and Baghdad has raised suspicions among researchers at the war is aggravating the already fragile environment in Iraq.

The United Nations environmental program hasn't discovered another effect of the war increased plankton activity in the estuary of the Shaft al-Arab river which flows from Iraq into the Gulf. And ornithologists say bird migration routes have been massively disrupted because of the war. Only five pairs of European Storks have turned up in Sigo, Croatia so far by the end of March there are usually hundreds of pairs in the village and more than 1500 pairs across Croatia. People in the village believe the Iraq war is behind the birds non-arrival. It's in Harado there. Back to the more important damage President Bush is at the White House. No, sorry, he's at Camp David this weekend preparing fixin for a meeting with Tony Blair on the increasingly contentious subject of Iraq post war.

Blair has pushed for a much stronger UN role in the post war process than the president envisions Colin Powell likewise. At the UN senior officials said there's virtually no chance of the security council endorse a Pentagon run reconstruction effort or a U.S. installed Iraqi authority without new council resolutions the European Union will not participate in the post war effort. So now the administration is making noises about maybe working with the UN in some they'll have some role I've heard that I've had some role I've been in pictures where I've had some role that's not impressive. And certain officials speculated to the Washington Post this week that the only person who can really convince the president to desist from the route outlined by Don Rumsfeld for a Pentagon run post war Iraq is the president's dad but they say these officials told the Washington Post it's not time for that yet. Maybe maybe not.

I think you mean it's not a little early for the Bible study hour where we read the verses about victory. It's a great erasing your mistake pretty big eraser pretty big pencil. It's just 12 years and a few thousand lives each of which we hold absolutely in violent but the one plot on your presidential heritage is coming to an ignorant many at the end. That's a triple negative don't follow the bad guy world is full of bad guys sometimes they can be very useful as in your coalition. I know what you're trying to do you're trying to e wait my moral clarity don't go there and and do that every tree is a very fine part of the Horn of Africa type grew now know where it is exactly where you like to sleep off a college

Bender in the local holding say no need to live in the past anymore we're building the future a few days from now the new Iraq will be taking shape and all the static from the armchair generals They are all generals in arm chairs yeah think so look 43 have always really respected your right to take counsel from advisors of your own choosing well speaking as a man it was chosen by almost half the public to lead this country I appreciate that. But it's the future in the new Iraq in fact that we got to talk about if you'd like yeah look I've had this conversation with Colin Colin is a good I'm going to fly to northern blessed Ireland for goodness sake to have this very conversation with the Blair Barry you know the new Iraq is not going to be turned over to the UN for any more of their relevant meddling. Anyone can come in and count the silverware in the food for oil program if that floats their boat otherwise he didn't want to get into all this 50 year history of international relationships build up under both parties kind of important a whole bunch of very serious people people I talk to a very serious to and you see 41 I've been reaching out yeah I'm not only talked to these people I've been reading their books

so look 43 boil it down for you here you can catch more flies with multilateral arrangements than you can with not why do I want with more flies I think 41 you know the UN is like microwave waffles it was a good idea but it just didn't work out we got to move on to what laser waffles not bad see what I argue with this with colin or condi they just lose their sense of humor when totally kidding there still look we bought Iraq with our blood and our sacrifice blood right and of course with about 75 billion dollars well that that's low-balling of course but anyway we bought it we own it why would we turn its salvation and its transformation over to to achieve eating debating society no reason we do that all right then

don't your intelligence briefings tell you that we're lighting matches in the most explosive kindling in the world Arab public opinion well they're not using that kind of colorful verbiage but yeah and don't they suggest that a small American footprint in the new Iraq is the only way we have left to the only water we can pour on that can link sure and you know 41 and and don't take this personal but I call it the CYA I mean they tell me whatever allows them to you know cover their own boop shoots for the Catholic youth association how you are kidding now I am to mask the hurt I'm serious I'm serious enough to use the first person pronoun singular 41 you know this isn't a fight I'm standing on your shoulders I'm building the new world order you talked about only it's it's got a simpler management chart just worried that you're only listening to the choir as if sitting in meetings with Don Rumsfeld is a day at the races you know what he calls me in classified meetings calls me Marge shot the woman who used to own a baseball team

Cincinnati Reds originally the red stockings and of course they became the red legs during the McCarthy thing look you are getting Reagan asking you defend me off with trivia about life on the Warner's life 41 what good is it to be the most powerful nation on earth if we can't act like it don't know but think we're going to find out I love to Laura how will call any time really bye bye I'll say hello to mom the cold north wind my daddy was the sun of a railroad man from west of hell where the trains don't run run never heard the whistle of a southbound freighter

for the singing of its driving wheel no I never did no one read never did no one read after all they say the highways just one big road and it goes from here to there and they say you carry a heavy load when you're rolling down the line somewhere never seen the dance of the telephone poles as they go is in by no I never did no one read never did no one read never did no one read after all never did no wonder in high never did no wonder in low

now a sailor's life is a life for him but it never was for me and I've never sword where the hawk measure or sea what the hawk might see never hike to heaven on a mountain trail never rode on a river's range no I never did no one read never did no one read never did no one read after all never did no one read never did no one read after all here's a quote for you ladies gentlemen to the people of the Baghdad willah yacht in the name of the king and in the name of the people's over whom he rules

our military operations have as their objective the defeat of the enemy but our armies have not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or as enemies but as liberators your sons have been carried off towards not of your seeking your wealth has been stripped from you by unjust men and squandered in distant places it is the wish of the great nations that you should prosper even as in the past when your lands were fertile when your ancestors gave to the world literature science and art and Baghdad was one of the wonders of the world the Germans and Turks have for 20 years made Baghdad a center of power from which to assail the power of the British and the allies therefore the British government cannot remain indifferent as to what takes place in your country now or in the future

for in duty to the interests of the British people and their allies the British government cannot risk that being done and Baghdad again which has been done by the Turks and Germans during the war therefore I am commanded to invite you through your elders and representatives to participate in the management of your civil affairs in collaboration with the political representatives of Great Britain who accompany the British army so that you may unite with your kinsmen in the north east south and west in realizing the aspirations of your race March 19th 1917 the 10th General Sir Stanley Maud the proclamation he issued as he entered Baghdad after the defeat of the Ottomans well where we put it we're supposed to put our feet now the quote of the war well there may be many quotes of the war it depends on where you hang your hat I think the litmus test of this week is you can you can tell anything everything about a person's position on the war anything else by whether they think whether they're more disgusted by Peter Arnet or Geraldo Rivera that's just that's a litmus test that's unfailing

so there are plenty of candidates for pride inducing quotes of the war probably PFC Lynch will be the winner there but for less pride inducing quotes except you know it's good to know that the army has not succumbed yet to political correctness from the New York Times sergeant Eric shrump who characterized his foes as ill-trained and cowardly this was in the early days of the war we had a great day sergeant shrump said we killed a lot of people they declined several times to shoot at Iraqi soldiers out of fear they might hit civilians but in the heat of a firefight both men sergeant shrump and his corporal conceded when the calculus often warps a shot not taken in one set of circumstances may suddenly present itself as a necessity

we dropped a few civilians sergeant shrump said but what do you do? there was one Iraqi soldier and 25 women and children he said earlier in the week I didn't take the shot but more more than once he found a different choice one Iraqi soldier standing among two or three civilians he recalled one such incident in which he and other men in his unit opened fire he recalled watching one of the women standing near the Iraqi soldier fall I'm sorry the sergeant said but the chick was in the way I was deep in hell but been called in Iraq and here is at my front I hit Arabs at my back I was shooting it down they were shooting at me it was gone for two or maybe we're all free

I shot them down they made my day I could have got a purple heart but the chick died in the way I hit the chick died in the way I keep back to the states and I got me a job I wasn't a star but I wasn't a star I settled down with a white fighter kid it wasn't what I wanted it was what I did that the force wasn't fair don't matter what they say

I want to see the kid but the chick got in the way oh yeah the chick died in the way yeah so my eye is clad my heart up and quits I was pretty scared I was in deep bits they sent me to heaven and I got in line I passed the test I was doing fine but when I met up with God she sent me away I could have stayed out of hell

but the chick died in the way oh yeah the chick died in the way finally because I'm sure you missed this Texas prosecutors this week agreed to throw out the convictions of 38 people nearly all of them black who faced drug charges based on the uncoroperated testimony of a white former undercover police officer

and a stunning reversal of state agreed with defense lawyers the former officer Thomas Coleman was an unreliable witness even though his testimony was the only evidence used to convict the defendants some of whom are serving sentences of 90 years or more asked if the convictions represented the travesty of justice the state special prosecutor hesitated a moment and then said yes this is your brain on prosecutors oh speaking of which the officer Thomas Coleman had run up a string of debts after quitting earlier jobs in law enforcement he conceded he once owned illegal machine gun and he was described by previous employers as dishonest unreliable racist and a gun nut when one of the defense lawyers asked him if he was sure all the defendants

behind bars deserve to be there Coleman replied I'm pretty sure he also admitted to several mess-ups including false police reports in resulting that resulted in four other cases being dismissed Coleman could not be reached for comment for his work on the drug bust which was recorded by television cameras he was named Texas Lawman of the Year in 1999 Mr. Coleman we'd like that plaque back if you don't mind ladies and gentlemen that's going to conclude this week's edition of the show the program returns next week at the same time over these same stations yeah I'm dreaming about that on NPR worldwide through throughout Europe if we're not preempted where we were at least couple weeks there on the USN 440 cable system in Japan where we're never preempted around the world for the American forces network who knows up and down the east coast of North America via the shortwave giant signal of WBCQ the planet 7.415 megahertz across North America on serious satellite radio

and on your computer whenever you wanted a two different locations where it's never preempted www.kcrw.com and www.HarryShirr.com and it would be just like helping to set up the new Iraq if you'd agree to join with me then thank you very much the email address for this broadcast is Lemail L-E-M-A-I-L at interworld.net let's show internet services by Steve Mack thank him or blame him well you know if Don Rumsfeld can say the plan is Tommy Franks I can say that

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on this week's broadcast more of the fog watch some fine apologies of the week we'll find out how the Iraqi legal system is being reconstituted and we'll catch up with Dewey Gordon and more on this week's edition of the show stay tuned won't I? but first this is my wartime won't let me read the trades for you from current the trade magazine of public broadcasting hot over heartburn credit I'll read it for you

just days after announcing plans for a comprehensive review of its underwriting practices NPR National Public Radio ignited a firestorm of criticism from stations incensed over a spot it accepted for nexium a heartburn pill to many the credit seems to conclude with a call to action ask your doctor in violation of FCC underwriting guidelines quote the inability of NPR management to say the simple words no we can't say that is very troubling says Jerry Watson what sorry Jerry Weston president of the public radio partnership in Louisville Kentucky NPR should have the backbone to say no when something comes into them that's illegal NPR defends the spot claiming it got informal approval from an unidentified adviser at the FCC the commission believes the language is non-promotional because ask your doctor directs listeners to seek more information says Barbara Hall NPR's VP of development in a memo to stations that reasoning wasn't enough to satisfy many development i.e. fundraising professionals

who posted angry emails last week to public radio's internet discussion groups slamming NPR for forcing the spot on local station what strikes me about NPR accepting the nexium spot is how easily they could have been rewritten to eliminate the call to action says Steve Kripinski underwriting sales manager for Detroit Public Radio what about information is available from your doctor PRI and other producers also accept underwriting spots that rile station sensibilities says the general manager of W.O.Y. in Ames, Iowa for a long time marketplaces musical theme included an echo of the jingle from its underwriter general electric says Gray Smith director of corporate supported public radio partnership there's absolutely no scenario in which ask your doctor is not a call to action

according to Alan Myers of the FCC's media bureau FCC rules don't prohibit a call to action at all it simply prohibits promotion but according to the FCC's own website announcements containing a call to action are not permissible such as stop by our showroom to see a model even an informational call to action is intended to get listeners to buy something Kripinski says why else would nexium want you to ask your doctor good question occurs to all of us when I read the trades for you can't be right to feature this is the show and news from the rear ladies and gentlemen because you've had too much news from the front me that's my personal opinion but what I what do I know I just don't work here

first of all just a couple of questions before we delve it appears now having seen the wave of congratulatory I'm going to I'm going to use a term of art here and call it journalism on American media regarding the amazing well not yeah amazing victory in Iraq is amazing as Mike Tyson knocking out a club fighter exactly that amazing in the wake that of course an awful lot of as I say congratulatory quote journalism and quote about our mission of liberation some Iraqis are happy the ones others who've had relatives killed who ran museums of antiquities where there are no longer any antiquities because they all get smashed by looters they're not

quite as happy but you know as Donald Rums oh speaking of which Donald Rumsfeld I'm just I'm over here for a minute because if I forget this I'm going to kick myself as Donald Rumsfeld pointed out this week this is all untightiness that we're experiencing right now it's like you know he didn't make this comparison but it's like dust weevils under the couch basically here's actually what he said no that's not what he said it's fun being in a new studio isn't it yes ladies and gentlemen it is here's what Rumsfeld said eight headlines that talked about chaos violence unrest and it just was Henny Penny the sky is falling I've never seen anything like it gentlemen I check this out because I thought I was dreaming

it was chicken it was chicken little who said the sky was falling Henny Penny fell in line afterwards but it was chicken little first so I think whatever else you can say about Don Rumsfeld he's confused his nursery rhyme poultry but you know he's a busy guy he's got other animals to fry this is a also in the quotes I don't want to forget to share with you before the moving finger rights one of the major justifications for the war in Iraq before we went in now as I was saying in the aftermath the celebratory aftermath it's all human rights and liberation which means what the Jimmy Carter's foreign policy was right wasn't the Republicans who were always criticizing Jimmy Carter for his fuzzy head in this because he was emphasizing human rights and his foreign policy yes it was thanks for the kids who remembered but one of the other one of the actual justifications

advanced before the war began was of course weapons of mass destruction we'll talk more about that in a moment but another of the justifications advanced frequently by administration spokespeople before the war was that Saddam Hussein was hosting was pals with terrorists as a matter of fact several times administration spokespeople said he was hosting terrorists there was a terrorist training camp set up in northern Iraq and in the back of my mind I had a thought but I didn't I didn't voice it at the time most again a term of art journalists didn't voice it either but last Sunday I meet the press Paul Wolfowitz the assistant defense secretary did voice it I think something people need to understand for the last 12 years northern Iraq has been more or less free territory free from the Saddam Hussein regime he was pointing that out in a totally different context

ladies and gentlemen of course but the point is the terrorist training camp was in northern Iraq which Paul Wolfowitz says was free territory free of Saddam Hussein's control so whom do we blame for the presence of that terrorist do we blame the Kurds do we blame I don't know but anyway just just a nutty nutty happenstance let's say for a moment shall we that this is all this is all a great policy let's let's stipulate as the lawyers say that this is this is all cool that even the the grandest definition of this the remaking of the map of the Middle East look out Syria look out Iran it's all a good idea it's all going to work and let's assume further that the administration's domestic tax policy is a good idea and it's going to work

but the premises let's redraw the map of the Middle East in the case of the foreign policy and in the case of the domestic policy let's cut taxes so much that we starve the beast i.e. shrink the federal government which is what David Stockman said the purpose of the Reagan tax cuts were and arguably that's what the purpose of the Bush tax you know it's not just the reward is you can reward his friends a million different ways let's be honest we'll talk about some of those ways in a moment then you don't have to lower taxes to help his friends but it does accomplish one important objective for conservatives it shrinks the size of the federal there's less money available for the federal government okay cool you like that policy great run on it put it to a vote don't hide it and then reveal it only after the election i'm sorry another term of art but these policies would have been an excellent subject for discussion during the election campaign

just me opinionating here so we're looking at the future of a rock and one of the ways to judge how we'll do would be to compare with the aftermath of our last war date line Kabul no sorry herot Afghanistan from the telegraph of London a conservative newspaper like other like other former warlords in different regions of the country the governor of herot is male con is impervious to many of the demands of Afghanistan's American-backed central government led by Hamid Karzai and Kabul which appointed him a fact which is contributed to growing anarchy and a breakdown of law and order in Afghanistan more than 15 months since the Taliban regime was declared driven

from power in Afghanistan American-led forces are fighting a resurgence by Taliban supporters in the south and we're not the only ones who can drop leaflets last week leaflets purporting to bear a message from Mullah Omar the Taliban's former leader were secretly spread around the border town of Spinboldak a no bill Riley's own calling on Afghans to act like Iraqi people and defend your country well that was written early that was written by the Iraqi information minister apparently contrary to what most people think we have not shifted to a stabilization mission yet this is still a war zone set in American soldier at Bagram militant Taliban remnants a part of the problem facing Karzai's government almost as challenging as the growing autonomy of prominent powerful warlords who have more real power than the government

they're supposed to serve in parts of the country beyond the reach of Kabul Afghanistan is once again reverting to the unruliness for which it was notorious the murder last week of a red cross worker north of Kandahar is only one in a series of security incidents and hijackings that have caused non-governmental aid organizations to pull out of the south of the country it's not good tourist tourist fodder quite yet the Taliban have hit American bases and the headquarters of the international peacekeeping forces in Kabul Mula Dadula you got to love that name Mula Dadula the first senior member of the Taliban to speak publicly since 2001 says there's been a gap in our activities but our people have now made contact with each other and are waiting for their commanders and elders to give the order to save our country like most of the Taliban senior commanders Dadula Mula Dadula to you as so far managed to escape American bullets and custody according to the BBC correspondent

the Taliban initially wouldn't talk or meet with us but after the first anniversary of the fall of their government they've suddenly become very bold gaining in confidence Afghans and Kabul remain sceptical about the promises President Bush is making to Iraqis the same promises he made to them to them of democracy human rights and reconstruction the international community gave $1 billion last year to help rebuild Afghanistan Afghans find it difficult to understand where the aid money is gone except perhaps in Kabul where they can see large numbers of white land cruisers hikes and property prices and new restaurants and this year's budget submitted to Congress President Bush has recommended that what's the figure zero money be allocated to Afghanistan aid zero interesting round number there's an article in the one of the Sunday British papers checking on the whereabouts of

you know I've got a sneeze and I was just trying to kill a microphone so I could do it but what the hell I sneezed on the air is that legal about Prime Minister Blair Tony Blair you know the our coalition mate the Prime Minister decided to spend Friday recording his voice for an animated version of himself to appear in the Simpsons Downing Street says Blair apparently an avid fan of the biggest show to ever grace the airwaves of Rupert Murdoch's Sky and Fox TV channels agreed to appear in the show months ago he's a big fan of the show as a spokesperson he knows he might get some criticism because of the timing doing this during the war but this was in the diary long before the war began the spokesperson then added we believe it will greatly benefit tourism and help bring Americans back to London the Prime Minister takes every opportunity he can to promote Britain and the script enables him to bang the drum

for the tourist industry to a worldwide audience Blair will appear in an episode of the show temporarily maybe it's permanently entitled the Regina monologues the cartoon vision of the Prime Minister is said to come complete with stick out ears and a fixed grin he gives tips to Homer and the rest of the Simpsons family on how to get by and Britain as tourists the show will air in November Al Jean the Simpsons executive producer visited Downing Street on Friday to record Blair well it's almost like he's still at war a few hours earlier Blair was attending a parade at the local military academy Jean had been on standby in his London hotel since Tuesday waiting to record Blair's three lines he previously told the press on Thursday they had no plans to get Blair on the show although we admitted we'd love to get him this turned out to be a cover story to prevent a fewer over the Prime Minister's strangely timed cartoon debut

that might have led to the plan being called off now then you then you wonder about the accuracy because it says George Bush senior has also starred in the Simpsons check that check that please English newspaper I think you'll find somebody did his voice a ladies and gentlemen who's going to who's going to build that new Iraq British defense secretary Jeff Hoon he's a coalition mate please he's a hoon but he's a coalition mate says it's time to allow Iraqis to start building from the bottom well you deal from the bottom why not as members of the bath party the despised loathed bath party are going to be used to restore order members of the bath party who are loyal saying are to be used to restore order in major Iraqi cities is looting in mob violence threatened to undermine coalition attempts to paint military action against him as a success

in an interview with the Sunday observer defense secretary Jeff Hoon said it was time to allow Iraqis to start building from the bottom it was important to differentiate between bathists who committed atrocities and those who had to be had to be party members to work for the regime so we don't have the time and the troops but we do have the time and the troops to discriminate between the bad bathists and the good ones apparently that's easy that's you just that's just a matter of here you know ladies and gentlemen here's the trouble with Iraq right here in a nutshell in our country if you see if somebody wants to deface for political or satirical reasons a poster of a despised or loathed public figure or loathed public figure what do they do what do they do with this face they draw mustache on it see the Iraqis already you see you can't do that to the Iraqis because it would just

Britain is prying to send a unit of our military police to try to stabilize the situation as well as advisers from UK police forces, coalition forces have been accused of being ill prepared for the violence that followed the ousting of Saddam as quickly as we can as an air of normality hoon said the administration although bathist in that anyone who worked for the government had to be a member of the party contained many perfectly decent people who are party members but have not participated in any atrocities and will want to go back to their work once the Iraqis themselves have identified who those people are there won't be any grudges there I don't think there'll be any difficulties snap babe they had a system of administration that will deliver he said the United Nations oil for food program although corrupted by the dictatorship show that the country could run large bureaucratic programs another note on who's going to run the

the post-war Iraq a US military contract or accused of human rights violations that's won a multi-million dollar contract to police police post Saddam Iraq dine corp which has donated more than 150, 175,000 dollars to the Republican party that's table stakes babe began recruiting for a private police force in Iraq a private police force in Iraq last week on behalf of the state department the warning of such a sensitive contract dine corp has caused consternation in some circles over the company's policing record a British employment tribunal recently forced dine corp to play 150,000 dollars in compensation to a UN police officer it unfairly fired in Bosnia for whistle blowing on dine corp colleagues involved in an illegal sex ring that's so complicated dine corp paid money because it unfairly fired a UN police officer for whistle blowing his colleagues in dine corp who were involved in an illegal sex ring

and a reporter for the observer newspaper who contacted the firm purporting to be potential police recruit for Iraq was told it was hoping to get people on the ground in two to four weeks the recruiter said the reporter could expect a salary of $80,000 plus hazard bonuses he was awarded a contract or offered a contract between three months and a year and told he did not need to be able to speak arabic he had to be a US citizen who had served as a police officer in the USA and when the reporter said he'd work in Texas for a number of years he was told he sounded ideal dine corp's advertisement is posted on a US website he said he had to be able to talk mission stating that it was acting on behalf of the department of states bureau of international narcotics and law enforcement affairs

it says it's seeking individuals with appropriate experience and expertise to participate in an international effort to reestablish police justice and prison functions in post-conflict Iraq how about the former how about all this I'm going to sneeze again how embarrassing is this it's allergy season ladies and gentlemen all those uh people who were replaced by the TSA they'd be perfect in Iraq because none of them speak arabic speaking of contracts the Pentagon contract given without competition to a halibut in subsidiary to fight oil well fires in Iraq is worth as much as seven billion dollars over two years according to a letter from the Army Corps of Engineers the contract also allows Kellogg-Brown and Root the subsidiary to earn as much as seven percent profit that could amount to four hundred ninety million dollars of course the question not answered by this article in the New York Times is how much of that contract gets paid even though

there are no oil wealth or almost no oil well fires of course you know vice president a chainy was halibut in chief executive for five years when he left the company to run for vice president he received over thirty million dollars in compensation since nine eleven Kellogg-Brown and Root is one significant additional business from the federal government and the Pentagon it built the cells for detainees at Guantanamo Bay and is the exclusive logistics supplier for the Navy and the Army providing services like cooking, construction, power generation and fuel transportation ask your doctor the administration says these contracts and all the contracts to rebuild Iraq were awarded without any comment from a chainy or anyone else in the White House like they need to comment Lieutenant General Robert Flowers the commander of the Corps of Engineers says Kellogg-Brown and Root was chosen because it was the only contractor considered capable of developing what he called complex classified contingency plans that would be the three C's and then to carry them out on extremely short notice

no other contractor could satisfy mission requirements and the time available he wrote that's why they didn't put the contract a bit you see ladies and gentlemen so you know there's a website already devoted to the former Iraqi the deposed Iraqi information minister the guy who said there were no American infidels in Baghdad well on a split screen we saw American infidels in Baghdad but what about Tariq Aziz he was perhaps the most familiar public face of the old regime well ladies and gentlemen reviving an old Lesho feature for one week, one week only hot property for sale Riverside residents slightly looted one careful Christian bathist owner whereabouts unknown likely to be finding alternative accommodation shortly

behind the high walls this is from the times of London behind the high walls of the palatial villa in Baghdad affluent Al-Jarariah district the white window latticework combining the eight pointed bath party star with the Christian cross immediately points to Tariq Aziz in a chart heap outside the front door lies a biography of Colin Powell and an Arabic language Bible at the top of the steps is an empty box of the veteran diplomats Romeo and Julieta Churchill cigars US Marines have already removed most of the sensitive contents of the house after blowing the safe on Wednesday night to take away files and bundles of paper for analysis but plenty remains within the now devastated three-story building which cost him 217,000 Iraqi dinars in 1987 alongside a biographies of Saddam the library includes countless profiles in English of US Presidents

and leading politicians including Jimmy Carter, Cyrus Vance, Nixon, Reagan, and Kissinger and a British documentary inside Iran victory without war by Richard Nixon Aziz's videos are even more interesting Anthony Hopkins is Nixon Hitchcock's North by the Northwest and a box set of the Godfather Music includes Chikovsky's recollections of Florence by the Boderian quartet Russian Gypsy songs and Diana Ross Downstairs the fine cellar has been stripped of all but a few boxes which indicate that Chivas regal, grand old par and hetres brandy were his chosen drinks Gunner is Pierre Cardinan Shoes, Vostok Military Watch and Spanish Rema Shoes Tariq Aziz's home

ladies and gentlemen available probably for a viewing whenever you can get there it's just that kind of day it's time to kick on back toss your cares away cart wheels and piggybacks it's just that kind of day tell me no Mr. Bruce don't tell me no more put on your happy shoes and chase him out the door to day when I awoke all my cares went up and small I thought about the sad I broke who kept heard this song don't cry don't fret don't frown

don't fret don't frown you'll only bruise your heart the sun's a circus clown the moon's a lamented I'm sitting on a hill watching clouds at plain love clouds I always will it's just that kind of day I'm sitting on a hill watching clouds at plain love clouds I always will it's just that kind of day to day when I awoke all my cares went up and small I thought about the sad I broke who kept heard this song don't fret don't frown let's give ourselves a break

from sorrow and it's me the world's a birthday cake it's just that kind of day it's just that kind of day it's just that kind of day ladies and gentlemen the fog watch you know because or is such a foggy deal the American troops who suggested this week they may have uncovered evidence of an active nuclear weapons program in Iraq that made headlines on Fox the fog news channel unwittingly may have stumbled across known stocks low-grade uranium officials said late this week they said the US troops in fact may have broken

UN seals meant to keep control of the radioactive material new tests indicate that substances found at sites in central Iraq are not chemical weapons agents as first suspected US military sources said the latest tests turned out negative tests on substance is found near the central Iraqi town of Hindi suggested the presence of nerve agents siren and taban and the blister agent luasite military sources said it's not yet clear what they were one officer said they might turn out to be simple pesticides and remember those bodies those hideously stacked bodies and simple boxes that were found in a warehouse couple weeks ago proof of the excuse me what the hell is going proof of the brutality of the regime well as a brutal regime no doubt about that but those remains of 200 people

found by British troops in a barrack near Basra are those of the Iranian soldiers killed in the Iranian-Rak war the remains were scheduled to be repatriated to Iran but the repatriation did not proceed because the war against Iraq started make shift coffins and plastic bags faded photos of corpses showing signs of torture and execution but that was jumping that was war and now another exclusive feature this broadcaster apologies the week so sorry yes we have so many of them

just getting them together here heraldor Rivera says he's sorry for breaking the military's rules for journalists by outlining planned troop movements in the sand the correspondent in Kuwait delivered his apology on the air last Sunday night he has said a review of his report while traveling with the 101st Airborne Division last week quote showed I did indeed break one of the rules related to embedment I'm sorry that it happened and I assure you it was inadvertent Rivera said nobody was hurt by what I said no mission was compromised I should have been more carefully said statement was in contrast to his bravado last week when he labeled reports that he'd been ousted a pack of lies spread by some rats at NBC now last night as this broadcast is being aired Rivera was back in Baghdad

with the 101st so he reinvented himself how did that happen how does a guy who violates military regulations for embedment reinvent last week on this broadcast we asked how did how did the Fox negotiate his voluntary removal from Iraq after he violated those rules now this broadcast asked how did they get him back how did they reinvent him deadline Ottawa Canada I think is becoming the national capital of apologies and apologies issued by Gamal Solomon the Ottawa imam who called on Muslims across the Middle East to take up arms in a holy war against American troops in Iraq he issued the apology after the minister of citizenship and immigration said he intended to conduct an investigation into the inflammatory comments quote during my recent interview with global television which by the way can only be seen in a few areas of Canada hence the name I made certain remarks concerning the situation in Iraq

I do not support or promote violence in any form against any country or any group of people Mr. Solomon wrote he continued I deeply regret and sincerely apologize for my comments on the hurt which it may have caused I hope and pray that peace would prevail in all regions of the world however an amended apology issued on the same letter head instead of I deeply and sincerely apologize for my comments on the hurt which it may have caused it now reads I deeply regret and sincerely apologize for my misunderstood comments blame the media also in Canada John Beard a senior cabinet minister delivered an abject apology this week hours after he joked about SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome and it's apparent Asian origins Mr. Beard the Ontario minister of energy when he mockingly coughed as he entered a pre-cabinet press meeting prompting one journalist equipped at the government's new communications strategy was to give the media SARS said the minister in response I enjoyed my trip to Asia demands for his resignation followed he said he was sorry

my comments this morning were stupid they were thoughtless they were insensitive and I apologize I should have known better he told reporters did the reporters misunderstand that date line tallahassee florida three term legislator apologized to members of the florida house after making a joke stereotyping blacks as superior basketball players he later apologized to each black member of the house and then apologized in the entire chamber representative Fred brummer a white republican he is so sorry a Wyoming congresswoman apologized Wednesday after colleague complained her house floor comments linked blacks and drug use representative Barbara Cuban republican of Wyoming was accused of being racially insensitive during debate over whether to prohibit lawsuits from being bought against gun and ammunition manufacturers Cuban who supports the bill to protect the manufacturers from lawsuits was complaining about a failed democratic amendment

would have banned gun sales to drug addicts so does that mean if you go into a black community you can't sell any guns to any black person she asked she apologized for offending sensitivity saying she was sorry for words offended anyone but she refused to have her words removed from the record and date line hollywood florida a city commissioner is apologized for warning residents that quote you will have a pervert or homosexual living next to you if the city allows another adult entertainment business to open sal ala veri apologized to a small group of gay residents and said he understands homosexuality has nothing to do with pornography well, I wouldn't say that date line Dublin one of Ireland's prominent campaigners for the rights of victims of clerical sceptical abuse settled a five-year-old case against the Roman Catholic diocese where he was abused more than 20 years ago for $323,000 and a deal that occluded included a public apology from the Catholic church and finally the head of the baseball hall of fame hasn't apologized yet but he regrets

canceling a screening of bold Durham because he was ticked off at Tim Robbins for his anti-war views and date line Philadelphia a Washington township man who said he was personally offended by the song war that was played during the Philadelphia Phillies final sold out home opener at veteran stadium got an apology from the organization that promised never to play the song again Michael Melis called the playing of the tune Edwin star made a hit in the 70s inappropriate and a shameful move by the Phillies organization when it decided to play it during the fan related event he asked for an apology not only from the Phillies but from citizens back the sponsor of the video clip segment the Phillies apologized saying the songs for the 70s were chosen because of the segment featuring video clips of what was called the Phillies and pirates a decade of battles and the choice of the song was for the rivalry he called baseball wars and not the current war in Iraq said Melis how can you compare a rivalry between two teams as a war when there's a real war going on Melis says quote how can they say a public apology was unwarranted

I'm doing this because I'm an American the letter I got makes me feel like they think I'm an oddball I am sure there is more people out there who have an opinion but who haven't said anything coincidentally Edwin starred died last week Edwin publisher Edwin supported Love has some sad things known to bear

But ain't too much sad at the end The tears of a clown And there's no one around Oh yeah baby Now if I appear to be carefree It's only to camouflage my sight And what if it's shield my product? I can't recall but it's hurting But the show is like this But don't let my show fit you But like I've been happy since you decided to go Oh, I need to solve I'm looking at the sun Look at the moon Look at the moon On the show It's just a shock And some sad things known to bear But ain't too much sad at the end

The tears of a clown And there's no one around Oh yeah Just like falling out you did I try to keep my sight And it's fine even if I'm a guy But ain't too much sad at the end The tears of a clown And there's no one around Oh yeah baby Now if I'm a guy It's only to camouflage my sight And what if it's shield my product? I can't recall but it's hurting And it's fine even if I'm a guy But ain't too much sad at the end See an uncoverage of the war in Iraq continues With a special edition of Larry King Live Now here's Larry King Live

We're in Lexington, Kentucky tonight Where I'll be emceeing the mid-July ball For the benefit of the Pomanary Edema Foundation Monday night Coming up next hour Our own Aaron Brown discusses his anxieties About the war with Dr. Phil But right now in a Los Angeles studio No friend of Larry King Live Even though he's young enough to be my son From my fifth marriage He first hit the spotlight with the boy band Boys are us He's been on his own now for a couple of years Building a solo career And he's with us tonight because Well he's gonna tell us where he's here tonight That's why he's here The fabulous Dewy Gordon Good evening Larry thanks for having me back I know it's wartime and I'm no general or journalist or anything Well you know I do it I think people want to know About the effect of the war on the ordinary celebrity Even more Well I hope so Larry As you know I don't think an artist has to keep his heart off his sleeve all the time I think you remember I was involved in the whole post 9-11 patriotism thing Before it was even a bandwagon

No you're song Where's your flag was was topping a charge right up to the promotion money ran out That's right but I haven't felt a Larry as an artist and as a A person of the human persuasion That was my job to inject my opinion about the war in Iraq into this very Very tense atmosphere you know my job was to finish my new record A kick in the heart and just to get it out to the people Records out this week Next week Okay and you're gonna do his song from it here tonight I didn't think we were doing that during the war No and I appreciate that policy too No Larry I only wish I were here to lip sync a number from the record But frankly I'm a little scared about what's going on And I just wanted to share that fear with your viewers Is this about the fear of traveling with the terrorism and the virus and the cutbacks? No sure Larry, you know that Jane and Janine the Raffalo and the Dixie Chicks and Tim Robbins They've been concerned that there might be a blowback effect on their careers from coming out publicly against the war

Susan Sarandon's gonna be on our show Tuesday night a whole panel of successful actresses over 40 That sounds great But by the same token you know we've had some folks to great fill Henry the radio host here in Hollywood Concerned that his public pro war stance might endanger his new NBC pilot I hear it's a funny show I read that in my column So we know it might be going both ways this very unamerican intolerance of an opposing view But Larry sir here's what I'm feeling that my very refusal to take a public position May be boomeranging back on my career and on the reception of my new album You mean radio stations of boycotting it? Well we don't know that for sure It's a little hard to measure because they were kind of cool about the last release as well But we're hearing some things some chatter exactly and it suggests that you know certain people in the industry Think I'm being unpicked reotic or or cowardly or something because I'm not taking a stand

Is it that you don't got an opinion on the war or you do but you don't want to reveal it yet? As I say Larry, I don't think it's my job to weigh in on all that My job if you're pardoned by friends is just to make a lot of female booties break out in a cold sweat You don't think as a citizen and a beloved public figure you have a responsibility to have an opinion You know good or bad? I really don't I mean this is America Larry A lot of young guys braver and better looking than me have fought and died for our right To not have an opinion you know if we start making people afraid to not speak out I hate to say it but the terrorists of one Well do we what does your record company think? Well as you know Larry recording executives are some of the smartest most passionate people around They're going to support me no matter what I do as long as I move units

But there's just so much they can do you know because of the Rico statue I'm sure the hands are tied Because you know I had a series that was being very seriously looked at at the USA Network It's EMR emergency medical rescue I'm a paramedic who's in extreme sports And you think it's in trouble now because of your non-stand? Well all I know is it's weird you know we were talking to these people for months it's suddenly nothing These are television executives you're talking about? It's what I mean it's weird I don't know but I just wanted to go public about all this to say to my fans What we've had is bigger than any war and I hope they're not going to hold my stand about not taking a stand against me And not only me but all the hundreds of artists and craftsmen that contributed to this record I mean you know Larry I sound good but I don't sound that good that takes a lot of help Yeah we're seeing a new humility in a Dewey Gordon at 2003 some people might say you've grown up I hope so Larry it's what it's all about

The Great Dewey Gordon in our Los Angeles studio tonight next time we have you on the show Dewey Please come do a song from Kickin' A Hard That's a promise Larry Coming up the Great Christian Amman Poor about looking your best while you're embedded We'll be right back Larry King Live is brought to you by Archer Manual Didley Drugstore to the world More news from the rear ladies and gentlemen Because this is the show Says Dr. Ahmed Usman In a rocky-born curd and retired University of Buffalo dental professor He had very good teeth excellent teeth He's recalling the time he treated Saddam Hussein

He examines Saddam just once he said he would have no difficulty recognizing the interior of Saddam's mouth again Because he had a rare periodontal condition and impacted canine tooth on the upper right So be in the lookout ladies and gentlemen Here's a tip Yes we do public service of course we do Of course while we're all concentrating on the war Some people take advantage to do things they wouldn't want noticed you notice That are a fiddle Castro arrested a lot of dissidents Sharing nothing but timing I guess the House of Representatives has voted to limit lawsuits against gun manufacturers And here in Los Angeles the home of the homeless actually not in Santa Monica but in Southern California X FBI agent is accused of passing secrets to his lover Chinese woman who passed them on to the Chinese government

A double agent at the FBI go figure And also in Los Angeles to finally get rid of that nagging publicity problem Connecting to South Central you know where they've had riots The city this week announced no not a rebuilding program we tried that Not boasting funds to the schools and I'm sure we've tried that No the city announced this week that South Central Los Angeles will henceforth be known as South Los Angeles Iraqi justice this is from the San Francisco Chronicle Iraqi justice may have been a cruel oxymoron under Saddam Hussein But the system of courts and laws distorted by his 24 year rule is fundamentally sound according to legal experts

And with remarkably few changes it can effectively serve the rights of individuals in the demands of a modern economy A more difficult issue is whether officials planning the shape of post-war Iraq can find judges and lawyers competent to make the system work Most current court officers are Hussein loyalists or complicit in the abuses of the dictator's regime experts say So replacements must come either from the hundreds of Iraqi attorneys in exile or retirement Or from the legal communities of other Arab nations Or elsewhere Hello Cochran Donnie my my old 12 colleague my quantum brother arms it's Lee Bailey how are you sir? If Lee my galley I have an urge for you since since you were I mean you know since the since OJ moved to Florida Yes sir many interesting things happen in the sunshine state almost makes you think and you say you've enjoyed remarkable success in the interim

Well the television shows the work without sharp them Well I just wanted to see first and what the what gentleman does to his hair I mean that that look is far more difficult for an African American than dreadlocks over a white individual So that's true Johnny although I had no reason to know why I possess that degree of certitude And of course since I got out of the practice of lawpers say the consultancy thing is going through the roof Yes I too got out of the practice of law Jonathan as you may well know but it was at the heavy hand of the federal government Nothing discourages the potential consultancy client like the whiff of this barman well Lee I was I was genuinely sorry to hear about that But I've got a lunch with the freedom lay people over anxious to make freedom is more ethnically friendly So I take your meaning Cochran so let me truncate the purses flowers and cut to the core of the colliquate

Well I've heard that if I have a great vine that there is or or soon will be a need for lawyers to staff the Iraqi legal system Have you have you read an item of such import? Yeah well actually I have and you know the first thing I thought Wow thank you I appreciate you Thank you it was a heraldos over there already he's got a large degree he could he could broadcast live from his old trial I think that's one of his dreams you know of course the other one is being in the threesome with Halle Berry and Heraldos we both know is a bit of a showboat and while a touch of showmanship is absolutely essential to maintain the jury in a state of non-summelance I don't think you have to surrender completely to to Martinum HB PT I'm sure he's a dynamite arranger too At the point of the colliquate Mr. C is whether you could use your contacts over there to say an effect and in essence I I know this Lee Bailey and the department is valid just for the state of Florida

He'd be a remarkable addition to any new legal team and Baghdad or for a negligible bonus in Basra Lee Lee I have no contacts east of Dar es Salam there's no way I don't need Johnny please don't don't give the boot black or shine on the job I've seen the Iraqis on television although since the countertomp with the federal juggernaut I've had to do without the Dacottamus blessings of cable but but so many of the Iraqis are clearly as the as they modern phrase has it people of color The third world even though they seem to have more cars per capita than the southwestern quadrant of Miami And by the same token our prisons are filled to overflowing with fellows of a Muslim persuasion a goodly number of them defended by yourself and all members of your firm Lee Lee Lee Lee what are you looking for private practice prosecuting attorney civil I wouldn't think there'd be a market for that yet but you know maybe you could be Iraq's first tobacco lawyer Johnny without Adam writing an unnecessary cohort of in this shot of desperation let me just say whatever you can do

Brother it will be appreciated not to say reciprocated on the extremely unlikely occasion that our positions are reversed Hey you never know I mean look what happened in answer grace let me see what I can do Lee and I'll have Sheree in my office get back to you Do you ever talk to juice he calls me when he's trying to sober up he sounds nostalgic for the old days The football the first trial anyway Johnny I look forward to hearing your tidings but be of good cheer sir Oh I am you take care leave you to sir Well ladies gentlemen that's going to conclude this

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