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International human rights
groups have catalogued

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other methods used in the
torture chambers of Iraq.

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Electric shock burning with
hot irons gripping acid on

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the skin mutilation with electric
drills cutting out tongues and rape.

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If this is not evil evil has

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no meaning to invoke human rights as

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a reason for military
action to be taken when

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nothing else has been
said or done previously

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And with respect to Iraq
where in fact since the

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the the throughout the 19 eighties
the United States was was

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giving a whole lot of political

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and an economic support to the
Iraqi the Iraqi government which

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it has now a dislodged and was
Secretary Rumsfeld going to

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Baghdad in order to shake hands with

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Saddam Hussein and convey
the support of the US for

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the Iraqis in their fight against Iran and
with the increase in US agricultural credits

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that were being provided to Iraq
throughout the 19 eighties.

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And in fact which actually doubled

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after the Iraqis used chemical
weapons against the Kurds in

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the north of the country
in 1988 Saddam Hussein

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also has experienced in
using chemical weapons.

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He\'s ordered chemical attacks on Iran.

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And on more than 40 villages
in his own country.

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I remember in 1989 after

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Saddam Hussein had laid waste to Kurdish
villages using chemical weapons

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I was working in Geneva advocating
at the United Nations and

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we were trying to get the United Nations
Human Rights Commission to criticize

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Iraqi policies and the United
States refused to even co-sponsor

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a resolution put forward
by 15 European countries

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to criticize Saddam Hussein and
his use of chemical weapons.

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If human rights really were.

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The reason that this administration
was motivated then it raises

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fundamental questions about
Saudi Arabia which is on

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very good terms with the US and
in many respects Uzbekistan

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Pakistan where we have in effect now a

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military dictator who\'s who\'s
with the US on the war on terror

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the Russians in in Chechnya
have been committing

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massive human rights
violations and yet they

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especially since this so-called
war on terror started there\'s

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been it\'s been met with silence by the
administration for the most part.

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And the US did not do much
to promote the resolution at

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the recent Human Rights Commission in

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Geneva condemning Russia for
the abuses in Chechnya.

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So it\'s a very selective approach that

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the administration is taking
on human rights. And in fact

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I believe this administration
the United States has has

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lost now in the human rights debate
globally because of its hypocrisy because

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of its double standards
because it uses the term

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human rights when it\'s politically convenient
or politically expedient and it ignores

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it when it\'s too close
to home the hallmark of

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any human rights advocacy
has to be consistency.

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It has to be talking about violations

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Wherever they occur and whether they\'re
being committed by your friend or by

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your foe but you can\'t go soft on it one
day and then to suit your purposes.

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Demonize the same policies the next day.

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The political utilization of human rights
threatens to undermine the entire ideal.

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And as we and our coalition partners are
doing in Afghanistan we will bring to

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the Iraqi people food and medicines
and supplies and freedom

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We have a great democracy that
we brought to Afghanistan.

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It\'s kind of a democracy. The
only people get to vote.

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It seems are warlords and drug lords
and they get all the votes and

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they\'d because I\'ve got all
the guns and that\'s it you

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know so you know democracy is not is not a
major issue with the Bush administration.

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Look if they don\'t want
democracy in Florida and

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they\'re kind of bother about
democracy in Afghanistan.

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Well it seems highly contradictory and
implausible policy to make war to create

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a military dictatorship and to

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try to bring stability much less democracy

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To a large state which is Iraq
enormously complicated area.

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If one looks back in
American history to see

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when policies of empire
building were successful.

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Well once he\'s numbers of
factors the conditions

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in Italy and Germany and Japan
were very very different.

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And first of all the United
States was very convinced

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by what it met by democracy and this

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meant reforms of the economic structures
such as to raise the standard of living

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Combined with the vote universal

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suffrage which would be organized
through centrist tight parties.

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But that was a very
peculiar historical moment.

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It\'s not clear now what the importation
or exportation of democracy needs.

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It. So unclear what will go toward
forming a democratic government.

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But there\'s certainly no signs
that this is in the offing not

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least the reasons being that in the entire
area United States has traditionally supported

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Non-democratic regimes distinctly
non-democratic regimes none of

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the US allies in the region is a
particularly democratic regime.

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There are three other four other governments
that particular importance to the US.

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One is Saudi Arabia which
allows no form of democracy

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which allows very very little in the
way of political freedom at all.

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And the US is never supported any of

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the the reform or the democratic
efforts going on within Saudi Arabia.

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Second major ally is Egypt.

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And there\'s a similar story.

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The United States policy towards Egypt

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is supporting the existing government
and doing everything it can.

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To help the government of
Mubarak to stay in power.

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No concrete support is given to those
Egyptians who had been fighting for

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a long time for increased political
rights to other main allies

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like Israel and Turkey
there the situation is

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somewhat different because both of those
countries have democratic forms of government.

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Turkey is a country that has successfully
maintained a form of democracy.

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It\'s one that\'s been interrupted
repeatedly by military coups.

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And by when the military
hasn\'t been actually seizing

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power it\'s been playing
a role in politics in

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governing who is allowed to even
compete in politics and who is

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not and it\'s also a country that in the
course of the 19 eighties 19 nineties in

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particular was carrying out

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a very extensive political
military campaign

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against the Kurdish population
in the east of the country

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which was extraordinarily violent in Israel

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democratic form of government
is for Israeli Jews and

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the same time is Ryan occupies

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the Palestinian territories and exercises
over those military dictatorship. So

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It\'s a rather limited form of democracy.

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Now there is growing concern
that the conflict in

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Iraq may spreads to the rest of the region.

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There are fears that Jordan
may become very unstable.

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And there\'s a large Palestinian
population in Jordan.

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There has been talk in Israel of
transfer of Palestinians to Jordan.

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So people are concerned that Israel may
use the cover of a war in Iraq to also

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impose certain conditions in

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Israel affecting the Palestinian population
there and in the occupied territories

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The relationship between the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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and the Iraq crisis is complicated.

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One of course the Israeli
Palestinian conflict has

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its own history its own dynamic Back to

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the events of 1948 and then
more recently in 1967 when

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the West Bank and Gaza came
under Israeli occupation

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and the current conflict told
though it does relate back to

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those earlier events is most
specifically about the attempt by

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the Palestinians to end the occupation
that was established in 1967.

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And the most recent phase
of it is the uprising or

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Intifada broke out in September of 2
thousand as the Intifada developed

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and the level of violence increased.

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There was one last effort
under the framework of

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the Oslo process in 1993 an
agreement between the Palestinians

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and the Israeli government and
that was a series of talks

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initiated by Bill Clinton
as earlier talks had been.

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But then continued by the Israelis
and the Palestinians without

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actually any American role in Taba and the
Egyptian town of tower in January of 2001.

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For the first time the Israeli
government made a proposal

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for the boundaries of a Palestinian
state in the occupied territories that

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and offered the Palestinians a contiguous state
in the midst of that two things happened.

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One was that Barack himself.

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He was already a kind of
caretaker Prime Minister.

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He had effectively resigned
and was awaiting elections

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in February of 2001 and in fact was defeated
in those elections and replaced by Sharon.

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I think more importantly Clinton.

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He also was a lame duck president
at that point and was in

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the midst of those torques left office
and the Bush Government was inaugurated.

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The Bush administration made it quite
clear that it was not interested

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in pursuing further the
Clinton policy and refuse to

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give any energy to that process
Sharon came to power and

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announced that his
solution for dealing with

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the Intifada was a military
one he was going to crush it.

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And he proceeded to attempt to crash
it militarily in the spring of 2001.

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We\'ve been monitoring particularly
over the last two years

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The clashes between
Israelis and Palestinians.

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Obviously there is an occupation which
has been going on for over 50 years.

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And Palestinians are
resisting the occupation

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and have been resorting
to the use of force.

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We done there\'s a human
rights organization.

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We don\'t take a position and
occupation or occupations per se.

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But actually the conduct just
as we don\'t take positions on

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wars but we tried to monitor the
conduct of all sides during the war.

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And in this case what we\'ve been
looking at is as civilians on

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both sides and the impact of the
clashes in the conflict on civilians

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And from the Israeli side
we\'ve been monitoring

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excessive use of force
excessive use of lethal force.

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Arrests we\'ve been monitoring
house demolitions.

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And we\'ve been monitoring the assassinations
policy by the Israeli defense forces.

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We\'re now concerned about
policies that may include

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deportation or transfer of populations.

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There has been a host of
violations that have been looking

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at Janine was one example where
it Israeli troops went in.

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And where the team we sent him
to look at what happened there

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found that war crimes may have been
committed by the Israeli defense forces.

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We\'ve also been looking at actions
by the Palestinian armed groups.

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And in particular as the
world has come to see

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the suicide bombings which
deliberately target civilians have

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been happening more and
more are carried out

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more by armed groups not by the
Palestinian Authority itself.

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And constitute in our opinion
crimes against humanity.

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We\'ve looked also at the
human rights record of

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the Palestinian Authority and
have been concerned about

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the state security courts allegations
of torture deaths in custody et cetera.

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The Israelis had been conducting massive
human rights violations in so many

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Areas over the past 2.5 years

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and have been essentially been given a
green light by the Bush administration

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and Palestinians as well
have been involved in in of

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course suicide bombings and armed attacks

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against civilians which are
also crimes against humanity.

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And there\'s not enough being done
to stop that but the administration

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is virtually silent when abuses
are committed by its friends.

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The United States sent

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a mediator Senator George Mitchell
former Senator George Mitchell to

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The occupied territories to
investigate and Mitchell published to

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report and that report
coal for a ceasefire but

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it also called for something else
Pacific which was for Israel to

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hold the building of the
expansion of settlements

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in the occupied territories and the
United States demanded that Israel except

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that the mitchell report and specifically
that element and the xiang government

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refused now is quite within the power of
the United States government to actually

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enforce hoped to the
building of settlements

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because those are possible only because
of US financial and military aid

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What American due to Israeli
3D destroying Israel

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itself and they really wanted a
spikiness the Israelis and a Jew.

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If Jewish people in Israeli people really

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love Israel really want
to see Israel even peace.

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They really have to say
no to George W Bush.

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He if tomorrow it\'s worth his interests
to support the Arab and attack the Jews.

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They will do it for him
to Jews and the Arab.

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Derek just toys to play his game.

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My name is Amit Marcia. I got home.

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I represent a group of 520 officers and
soldiers of the Israeli army. Occupied

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What\'s interesting about Israel
is that essentially what

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Israel has done in terms of foreign
policy in terms of military policy in

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terms of its legal policy is
almost an advanced notice of

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what the United States will do in many
ways that Israel is field-testing.

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American policies.

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What we\'re now going to see I predict is

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with the US direct military
occupation of Iraq in

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which there won\'t even be a pretense of

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Iraqi leadership there will be an
American military governor in place.

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We want to apply the Geneva Conventions

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just as we don\'t apply the Geneva Conventions
to the prisoners of war and in Guantanamo.

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And we will have the Israeli example to

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site and it\'s not just that
they\'re direct military tactics.

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For example the what is called
targeted assassinations

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which are clearly illegal
because you\'re allowing

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your military to act as judge and
jury of people who you don\'t yet

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know what they\'ve done and what they haven\'t
done and innocent people are always killed.

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But Israel has been doing that
for a long time in the in

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the territory\'s assassinations initially the
US condemned these then they were quiet.

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Now we\'ve done it ourselves in in Yemen and
I\'m sure and it\'s now official policy.

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In fact Bush it talks about that.

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Another example is Janine.

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What Israel did in Janine was condemned
by every human rights group.

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Amnesty Human Rights Swatch Israeli groups
as well Palestinian groups as a war crime.

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What the United States did in response
is set up a joint military exercise to

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learn the lessons of Janine for urban combat
that was expected to happen in Baghdad.

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I think that right now unfortunately
there is an incredible coincidence of

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strategy and interests between

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the most extremist Israeli government there
has ever been that\'s the Sharon government.

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In his own government Sharon
is not the hard liner.

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It\'s called the transfer government

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because you have major ministers
including the Housing Minister

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who openly advocate the ethnic cleansing of

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Palestinians from their own
homeland This is not hidden.

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It\'s known in Israel as
the transfer government.

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Their counterpart in the United
States the Bush administration is

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also the most extreme and radical.

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And as I said before

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Revolutionary American
government I think that

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we\'ve ever seen in which
the people who hold

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the key positions of policy
in the military and in

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our internal security are not within the
mainstream of the Republican Party.

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They are they are radical extremists
they are essentially fundamentalists.

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And here I would want to make the last
link between the United States and Israel.

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And that is that this is
quite well documented.

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There are very very strong links between

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the Christian fundamentalist
movements and the Israeli government

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What I would call the Zionist fundamentalist
movement now represented by Sharon and

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the US government in terms of millions of
dollars of funding in terms of political ties.

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So what you have is

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a very dangerous combination

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a religious or ideological
fundamentalism allied to state power.

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The policy currently being pursued by
the Bush Government of planning for

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a war against Iran is a
policy that is being promoted

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By particular individuals within
the Bush administration with

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very close ties to Israel not necessarily
acting at Israel\'s behest in any way but

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nevertheless that sees the region and

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sees the way the region might
be reorganized and remade in

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ways in which Israel to which
Israel is central and to

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which the right and the far right in
Israel is very much in agreement.

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People like Richard Perle.

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People like Paul Wolfowitz who are the most
active proponents of a war against Iraq to

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overthrow Saddam Hussein IPO

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who have a long history of close
ties with Israel Po in particular

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when he was out of favor in Washington

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during the period of the
Clinton administration worked

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closely with the far right in Israel with

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Netanyahu in particular helped
him formulate its own policies.

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And there was in that period
that they actually formulated

00:21:47.765 --> 00:21:51.619
this much broader scheme for
the Middle East of which

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the overthrow of the government
of Iraq is one part.

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It\'s a scheme which seeks to abandon
the increasingly unreliable US clients

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in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and make

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the United States much more
directly reliant on Israel.

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And perhaps on

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And this is the way they
envisaged things a US occupied

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Iraq the people who are now in the
White House and the Pentagon in

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particular in the State
Department have have written for

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more than ten years about the
need to topple Saddam Hussein.

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To essentially take direct control of
the oil fields in the Middle East.

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And Afghanistan.

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I mean this is this is public writings.

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This is publicly available.

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And the reason they want to do all
of that is because they believe in

00:22:45.800 --> 00:22:48.019
a doctrine which has now
been officially adopted by

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the Pentagon it\'s called
full spectrum dominance.

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And what that means is as they say in a
unipolar world in a world where there\'s

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just one superpower why should we meaning

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the US government be constrained
from doing what we want

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where we want because we have a US
military that can enable us to do that.

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It\'s about geopolitical control.

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Establishing American power.

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In the most important regions of the world

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And again this is not a conspiracy theory.

00:23:20.390 --> 00:23:22.189
It\'s not even my opinion.

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It\'s what was written by
people like Dick Cheney

00:23:26.615 --> 00:23:31.324
and Paul Wolfowitz and Richard
Perle and Douglas phi

00:23:31.325 --> 00:23:35.449
and all of the people who now hold
not just important positions in

00:23:35.450 --> 00:23:41.314
the US government the key positions in
our military security complex right now.

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Well bushes a true believer but he\'s not the
one who\'s put this administration together.

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It\'s been people like Cheney and Rumsfeld.

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And yes the Project for a New American
Century with a really Odious name

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for starters the notion
that an entire century

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on the planet that belongs
to a particular country

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It is rather meglio many
Akhil you might say.

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So 9-11 was a godsend for
that agenda because it gave

00:24:09.830 --> 00:24:15.529
the United States the claim to be
the victim in any future activity.

00:24:15.530 --> 00:24:20.299
I think that exploiting
9-11 was a process of

00:24:20.300 --> 00:24:27.990
the Bush administration moving forward
as though 9-11 is a license to kill.

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It\'s hard to understand how the United States
could create a an open Empire at a moment

00:24:53.405 --> 00:24:58.623
when the very openness of
the world markets created

00:24:58.624 --> 00:25:06.624
such distress and undermining
of political institutions.

00:25:07.505 --> 00:25:13.819
The only way that seems plausible is
by some sort of multilateral efforts.

00:25:13.820 --> 00:25:16.369
So that even if one conceived of

00:25:16.370 --> 00:25:21.949
a Western colonialism which are
neocolonialism which has not been

00:25:21.950 --> 00:25:27.274
Not spoken about to deal precisely
with these problem areas.

00:25:27.275 --> 00:25:32.868
One would require a Western
multilateral structure

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such as one could have through
the UN or through some sort of

00:25:37.445 --> 00:25:43.399
joint operation with the Europeans especially
in an area like the Mediterranean which

00:25:43.400 --> 00:25:49.504
is of enormous interest to the
Europeans as they become more unified.

00:25:49.505 --> 00:25:56.464
And so the United States policy to
go it alone seems so contradictory

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toured every form of good sense even
in an imperial framework. The major

00:26:04.020 --> 00:26:12.020
Threat to US power is not Saddam Hussein or
any other potential regime in the region.

00:26:12.535 --> 00:26:18.459
It\'s much more Europe and American
concern of the rise of Europe especially

00:26:18.460 --> 00:26:25.194
now that the united Europe of the
European Union as a rival global power.

00:26:25.195 --> 00:26:32.799
And perhaps specifically the question of the
European Union in alliance with Russia.

00:26:32.800 --> 00:26:39.269
And I think planners in
Washington concerned about and

00:26:39.270 --> 00:26:41.919
envisaging the remaking
of political order in

00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:46.664
the Middle East have in mind much more
that issue of competition with Europe

00:26:46.665 --> 00:26:50.644
The fear of Europe in
alliance with Russia becoming

00:26:50.645 --> 00:26:55.729
an economic power and a global power that
would rival the United States as far

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as America\'s relationship to to Europe
is concerned it would seem to me

00:27:02.090 --> 00:27:09.424
that it\'s perfectly natural
reaction on Washington\'s part.

00:27:09.425 --> 00:27:16.114
To raise some serious questions about how

00:27:16.115 --> 00:27:21.469
this newly constructed Europe will

00:27:21.470 --> 00:27:29.389
impact on the international system and
in particular on the relationship

00:27:29.390 --> 00:27:34.459
on the shall we say hegemony then

00:27:34.460 --> 00:27:41.149
America at the moment exercises
over large parts of the world.

00:27:41.150 --> 00:27:44.554
And there I think I would
make 1 in particular.

00:27:44.555 --> 00:27:51.510
And that is if the rate of
economic development in China

00:27:52.150 --> 00:27:56.209
that has been evident over

00:27:56.210 --> 00:27:58.219
the last few years if that rate of

00:27:58.220 --> 00:28:01.999
economic development should continue
for another 15 or 20 years.

00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:10.000
That means that America
is really worried about

00:28:10.385 --> 00:28:12.574
time from now to then.

00:28:12.575 --> 00:28:16.189
There will be another
countervailing power in

00:28:16.190 --> 00:28:20.719
the international system 15
to 20 years down the road.

00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:24.060
And I\'m thinking in particular of China.

00:28:24.100 --> 00:28:28.369
And then the question comes up as to what

00:28:28.370 --> 00:28:32.779
the relationship of the United States
will be to Europe at a time when it

00:28:32.780 --> 00:28:39.739
will have to face up down the road to
operating within an international system in

00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:47.740
which a major other power begins
to throw its weight around.

00:28:48.020 --> 00:28:53.370
Now this recent sort of

00:28:53.640 --> 00:28:57.354
disagreement between the Europeans

00:28:57.355 --> 00:29:02.064
and the Americans and I shouldn\'t say the
mountains in the Bush administration.

00:29:02.065 --> 00:29:05.169
I think may well be related to

00:29:05.170 --> 00:29:08.079
the fact I\'m not saying it is
but it may well be related to

00:29:08.080 --> 00:29:16.080
the fact that the Europeans are quite
aware of the fact that militarily.

00:29:17.275 --> 00:29:21.200
They do not add up to very much.

00:29:21.420 --> 00:29:26.409
But in terms of the new Europe
that has been constructed since

00:29:26.410 --> 00:29:34.410
1945 Europe is beginning to add up to
something economically and not to forget

00:29:36.120 --> 00:29:39.829
that that was the original
intention when it all started with

00:29:39.830 --> 00:29:45.109
the Schuman Plan and so on your original
idea was we start with economics and

00:29:45.110 --> 00:29:50.299
then see once we once certain economic base

00:29:50.300 --> 00:29:54.829
has been created as to what they don\'t
want to use Marxist language here but

00:29:54.830 --> 00:30:00.799
anyway what other political and
social structures could be

00:30:00.800 --> 00:30:08.059
constructed that would go it would tie
it will firmly together than alone.

00:30:08.060 --> 00:30:10.429
Economics would not be able to do.

00:30:10.430 --> 00:30:18.019
Now what is so interesting to me at any rate
and this recent caught her tongue between

00:30:18.020 --> 00:30:22.219
Washington on the one hand
and then Paris and Berlin.

00:30:22.220 --> 00:30:26.239
And the other is that after

00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:34.219
all France and Germany plus bn NOx
represent the core of Europe.

00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:41.359
And when one says the core of Europe the core
of this new European economy which by now

00:30:41.360 --> 00:30:49.360
has a currency of its own the euro
which looks at the moment as if

00:30:50.885 --> 00:30:56.419
we\'re the only international currency

00:30:56.420 --> 00:31:00.229
that could to some extent
measure itself with the dollar.

00:31:00.230 --> 00:31:03.330
There is no other one as far as I know.

00:31:03.820 --> 00:31:09.139
And it would seem to me that that is

00:31:09.140 --> 00:31:14.179
again an issue that is not
being explicitly addressed as

00:31:14.180 --> 00:31:19.339
one dancers this diplomatic
waltz around the issue

00:31:19.340 --> 00:31:25.774
of Iraq Churchill during World War Two.

00:31:25.775 --> 00:31:33.775
Very often spoke of the possibility of being
able to get at the Germans by invading

00:31:34.050 --> 00:31:39.579
Europe\'s soft underbelly and he was
thinking of the Balkans et cetera.

00:31:39.580 --> 00:31:45.324
Now we all know that the soft underbelly
wasn\'t as soft as the phrase suggests.

00:31:45.325 --> 00:31:48.129
But at this time it looks to me as if

00:31:48.130 --> 00:31:53.289
the Americans were trying to hit the
soft underbelly of Europe that is to

00:31:53.290 --> 00:31:56.229
say the x satellites of
the Soviet Union and

00:31:56.230 --> 00:31:59.379
rally them around the position
of Washington and thereby

00:31:59.380 --> 00:32:02.289
complicating the further construction of

00:32:02.290 --> 00:32:09.024
the European Union and also the further
construction of the European economy.

00:32:09.025 --> 00:32:16.379
Certainly it is it seems to me not that
far-fetched to raise that as being

00:32:16.380 --> 00:32:24.019
one of the possible considerations at this
moment when on the one hand Paris and

00:32:24.020 --> 00:32:27.363
Germany and Berlin and on
the other hand Washington

00:32:27.364 --> 00:32:32.599
squaring off around the issue
of Iraq It is not Iraq.

00:32:32.600 --> 00:32:37.714
That is the issue. I think Iraq represents

00:32:37.715 --> 00:32:43.519
an issue that reveals many things that
had been going on under the surface.

00:32:43.520 --> 00:32:47.659
And at the same time serves as an issue

00:32:47.660 --> 00:32:52.949
around which the major powers
can redefine their positions

00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:32.409
That\'s actually a quote
from an intelligence report

00:33:32.410 --> 00:33:37.044
from e2 the first Bush
administration in 1989.

00:33:37.045 --> 00:33:40.119
And when a new administration
comes into office if get to

00:33:40.120 --> 00:33:43.649
review the world situation
from the intelligence agencies

00:33:43.650 --> 00:33:48.589
And the Bush Administration of course did
this is the first Bush administration.

00:33:48.590 --> 00:33:53.824
And these are usually secret in fact always
secret but parts of this one were leaked.

00:33:53.825 --> 00:34:00.184
It had to do with confrontation with
a much weaker enemy stare phrase.

00:34:00.185 --> 00:34:02.419
And it said in the case
of confrontation with

00:34:02.420 --> 00:34:08.914
a much weaker enemy the United States
must defeat them decisively and rapidly.

00:34:08.915 --> 00:34:14.284
Or else political support will
erode because it\'s very thin.

00:34:14.285 --> 00:34:19.819
It\'s not like the 19 sixties when you can
carry on a where for years and nobody cares.

00:34:19.820 --> 00:34:21.469
Now it\'s very weak.

00:34:21.470 --> 00:34:25.759
You can only attack much weaker enemies.
But then you have to gain.

00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:27.454
You have to do it fast.

00:34:27.455 --> 00:34:29.854
But you have to get some
support for that too.

00:34:29.855 --> 00:34:34.159
And the only way you can do it is by either

00:34:34.160 --> 00:34:39.469
by first of all create a
magnifying them to awesome forces.

00:34:39.470 --> 00:34:44.824
So just remember with the same
people did through the 19 eighties.

00:34:44.825 --> 00:34:50.119
And Nicaragua was two days marching
time from Texas and so on and so forth.

00:34:50.120 --> 00:34:52.564
One Luder Chris claim after another.

00:34:52.565 --> 00:34:55.969
And then somehow use you
succeed in conquering

00:34:55.970 --> 00:35:00.034
Grenada and save us from the Russian
Air Base or something like that.

00:35:00.035 --> 00:35:03.304
And yeah that\'s what the intervention
through the nineties event.

00:35:03.305 --> 00:35:07.864
Concoct an enemy that is just
about to commit genocide or

00:35:07.865 --> 00:35:09.379
and maybe destroy us.

00:35:09.380 --> 00:35:12.109
And then miraculously
defeat them even though

00:35:12.110 --> 00:35:15.469
they\'re an awesome foe and
then march on to the next one.

00:35:15.470 --> 00:35:19.069
Now wasn\'t that important for the
Clinton administration but it\'s

00:35:19.070 --> 00:35:23.479
extremely important for this
administration because they they did it.

00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:26.524
These are the same people who ran the
country in the eighties remember

00:35:26.525 --> 00:35:30.919
so you want to figure out what you\'re doing
and just look at that record shame people.

00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:35.509
They\'re carrying out programs which are
quite harmful to the general population

00:35:35.510 --> 00:35:42.544
in tax cut for the rich and the whole rest of
it it harming people people don\'t like it.

00:35:42.545 --> 00:35:44.989
And so the public as in
the eighties the public

00:35:44.990 --> 00:35:48.094
is strongly opposed that
almost all their policies.

00:35:48.095 --> 00:35:52.309
Hey hey keep people under
control and continued

00:35:52.310 --> 00:35:58.069
to institute those policies when the
public supposed to only one way.

00:35:58.070 --> 00:36:03.949
You have to have people reduce the
significance of those issues.

00:36:03.950 --> 00:36:05.689
Maybe they still oppose you and

00:36:05.690 --> 00:36:10.519
socioeconomic policies but they don\'t care
that much because something more important.

00:36:10.520 --> 00:36:13.729
The thing that\'s more important is
somebody\'s going to come and destroy it.

00:36:13.730 --> 00:36:17.359
And when somebody\'s going to come and
destroy you forget everything else.

00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:22.189
And you trust the grand leader
who may miraculously save us.

00:36:22.190 --> 00:36:24.679
That\'s the scenario that was
created reverberate through

00:36:24.680 --> 00:36:28.009
the eighties year after year
and we\'re seeing it again.

00:36:28.010 --> 00:36:30.319
So if you take a look at the

00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:33.859
well you\'ve been following it up until

00:36:33.860 --> 00:36:40.774
September of last year a Saddam Hussein
was portrayed as a terrible guy.

00:36:40.775 --> 00:36:45.444
In September he suddenly became an
imminent threat to our survival.

00:36:45.445 --> 00:36:51.319
Now that\'s when Condoleezza Rice showed
up with the mushroom cloud in New York

00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:54.319
and the constant talker Don Bush opens

00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:57.799
his mouth is we got to stop him
now or he\'s gonna come after us.

00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:00.349
And that\'s unique to the United States.

00:37:00.350 --> 00:37:03.859
It\'s the only country in the
world were that people not only

00:37:03.860 --> 00:37:07.924
hate Saddam Hussein but
fearing outside of your act.

00:37:07.925 --> 00:37:12.964
Nobody fears and again Iran
or Italy expecting to invade

00:37:12.965 --> 00:37:17.689
Here people fear him and that\'s
the way you rip up people into

00:37:17.690 --> 00:37:22.999
fat into support for power and you
can push through domestic policy.

00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:27.829
Why September Yeah it\'s when their
congressional midterm election began.

00:37:27.830 --> 00:37:30.559
They\'d never won the election
if it hadn\'t been for

00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:34.774
this shift and popular attitudes and
they\'re going to need another one.

00:37:34.775 --> 00:37:39.409
They can\'t go onto the presidential
election without having a victory

00:37:39.410 --> 00:37:44.074
over awesome fo under there in their hands.

00:37:44.075 --> 00:37:46.459
And of course it\'ll be portrait.
Whatever happens.

00:37:46.460 --> 00:37:48.634
It\'ll be portrayed as a liberation.

00:37:48.635 --> 00:37:53.419
If turned out to be catastrophes
it might that\'ll be

00:37:53.420 --> 00:37:58.219
Saddam Hussein\'s for but
one way or another will

00:37:58.220 --> 00:38:03.679
be a wonderful Liberation just like
Hitler\'s conquest were presented.

00:38:03.680 --> 00:38:07.729
Internal is liberating
the oppressed population

00:38:07.730 --> 00:38:11.340
for and so on and so forth communicative.
No matter what happens.

00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:18.093
What\'s the next one number of choices

00:39:18.094 --> 00:39:23.209
Since it has to be much weaker because
you don\'t want to confront anyone else.

00:39:23.210 --> 00:39:29.509
It would be Syria could be around
except they\'re not so easy to handle.

00:39:29.510 --> 00:39:32.074
And it could be the end the Andean region.

00:39:32.075 --> 00:39:36.229
You know there are a lot of possibilities
for much weaker enemies that can

00:39:36.230 --> 00:39:42.544
be created as monsters to
destroy and to proceed.

00:39:42.545 --> 00:39:47.599
And furthermore they\'ve made it sound like
they\'re being very secretive about it.

00:39:47.600 --> 00:39:52.009
If you read the National Strategy
report of last September.

00:39:52.010 --> 00:39:59.519
And it\'s pretty brazen says essentially
we\'re going to rule the world by force.

00:39:59.520 --> 00:40:06.469
If anyone we are never going to
permit a competitor to arise.

00:40:06.470 --> 00:40:10.864
So if it looks like anyone anywhere is

00:40:10.865 --> 00:40:16.414
a potential competitor Lister
I\'m not set it in those words.

00:40:16.415 --> 00:40:20.179
I mean so clearly that the write through

00:40:20.180 --> 00:40:26.359
the foreign policy elite in the United States
there\'s unprecedented opposition to this.

00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:31.054
I mean the foreign policy
journals the institutions are

00:40:31.055 --> 00:40:34.099
writing articles which have never

00:40:34.100 --> 00:40:37.534
seen before are saying you know you\'re
going off on a very dangerous course.

00:40:37.535 --> 00:40:42.259
There are criticisms are on very narrow grounds
if it\'s going to harm the United States

00:40:42.260 --> 00:40:47.944
But the criticisms are very strong and the
Administration pays no attention to them.

00:40:47.945 --> 00:40:51.304
It doesn\'t it knows there right
it does not try to refute them.

00:40:51.305 --> 00:40:55.429
And there\'s no point telling the administration
that we\'ve been doing is likely to

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increase proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction and terror. They know there.

00:41:01.010 --> 00:41:04.459
So okay they don\'t want terrorist
acts in the United States

00:41:04.460 --> 00:41:07.759
but if somebody blows up hotels from

00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:10.969
where that\'s okay you can use that

00:41:10.970 --> 00:41:15.769
to intensive discipline and control
and push through your own agenda.

00:41:15.770 --> 00:41:18.828
Same with weapons of mass destruction
and they\'re proliferating

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them and they know it. But to

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we\'re going to have way
more than anybody else.

00:41:24.215 --> 00:41:27.169
So we\'ll just overwhelm
the world by violent.

00:41:27.170 --> 00:41:30.664
Actually with the world with the
US is teaching the world right at

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this minute is an extremely ugly less.

00:41:35.450 --> 00:41:38.749
And you have to kind of
admire the discipline of

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intellectuals and the media
not to put it in headlines.

00:41:42.875 --> 00:41:45.079
I\'m sure everyone out there understand.

00:41:45.080 --> 00:41:48.604
Just take a look at North
Korea and Iran and wanted to

00:41:48.605 --> 00:41:52.819
teaching the world is you want
to protect yourself from us.

00:41:52.820 --> 00:41:55.714
You\'d better have a determinant.

00:41:55.715 --> 00:41:57.919
Either weapons of mass destruction are

00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:00.709
a credible threat of terror
and otherwise we\'ll smashing.

00:42:00.710 --> 00:42:04.159
If you\'re totally weak and
completely defenseless.

00:42:04.160 --> 00:42:08.419
And practically wiped out yeah then
will attack you like your egg.

00:42:08.420 --> 00:42:12.109
But if you\'d glass and trouble that
we\'re not going to get close and

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it doesn\'t take a genius
to figure that out.

00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:20.794
It takes discipline for Headline
writers not to put headlines.

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But that\'s the lesson between the world.

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And the Bush administration knows it.

00:42:26.270 --> 00:42:28.054
Of course they\'re not in the salt.

00:42:28.055 --> 00:42:35.809
And they simply don\'t care because it
will fit into their long-term agenda.

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If indeed there are
threatening forces there

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There was a lot of discussion just at

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the end of the 19 eighties about

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the capacity not just to the Soviet
Union but of the United States to

00:42:57.760 --> 00:43:03.309
sustain its informal empire the
problem of the Soviet Union as

00:43:03.310 --> 00:43:09.474
an alternative economic political
power ceased to exist.

00:43:09.475 --> 00:43:13.599
And the European Union though

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starting to consolidate itself and much more
rapidly was not seen as an alternative.

00:43:19.630 --> 00:43:25.749
Economic much less political
or military regional power.

00:43:25.750 --> 00:43:29.324
So from lots of worries of the 19 eighties

00:43:29.325 --> 00:43:31.894
by the early 19 nineties.

00:43:31.895 --> 00:43:38.389
It was seen that the United States had
emerged as the winner and not just a winner

00:43:38.390 --> 00:43:42.589
militarily because the Soviet
dangerous no longer there

00:43:42.590 --> 00:43:47.404
but somehow it was doing all
sorts of Write economically.

00:43:47.405 --> 00:43:55.405
And I think that if one goes and begins
to look at the 990s it\'s a period where

00:43:55.880 --> 00:44:03.880
many many possibilities for changing the
American role in a very effective way.

00:44:04.700 --> 00:44:06.589
We\'re lost

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First of all it was thought
that there would be

00:44:10.040 --> 00:44:14.239
a great peace dividend that
view at us would also begin

00:44:14.240 --> 00:44:22.240
to disarm transform its way
of doing military operations.

00:44:22.250 --> 00:44:25.969
And that had been looked
for for a long time.

00:44:25.970 --> 00:44:31.369
And that there was never that peace
dividend there was never that conversion

00:44:31.370 --> 00:44:38.250
to a different kind of
military security staff.

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Back in 39 Our greatest
historian Charles a beard

00:44:48.785 --> 00:44:52.099
Wrote the destiny of Europe
and Asia has not been

00:44:52.100 --> 00:44:56.059
committed under God to the
keeping of the United States.

00:44:56.060 --> 00:45:01.879
And only conceit dreams of
grandeur vain imaginings lust for

00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:04.699
power or a desire to escape from

00:45:04.700 --> 00:45:09.514
our own domestic barrels and
obligations could possibly make us.

00:45:09.515 --> 00:45:12.349
Suppose that providence has appointed as

00:45:12.350 --> 00:45:16.369
his chosen people for the
pacification of the Earth.

00:45:16.370 --> 00:45:22.309
Those Americans who refuse to
plunge blindly in the maelstrom of

00:45:22.310 --> 00:45:28.654
European and Asiatic politics
are not defeatist or neurotic.

00:45:28.655 --> 00:45:31.464
They are giving evidence of San thing

00:45:31.465 --> 00:45:38.554
not cowardice of adult thinking as
distinguished from infantilism.

00:45:38.555 --> 00:45:42.934
They intend to preserve
and defend the Republic.

00:45:42.935 --> 00:45:47.404
America has not to be wrong or Britain.

00:45:47.405 --> 00:45:49.830
It is to be America.

00:45:50.590 --> 00:45:57.304
America is a strong nation and
honorable and the use of our strength.

00:45:57.305 --> 00:46:01.114
We exercise power without conquest.

00:46:01.115 --> 00:46:05.359
And we sacrifice for the
liberty of strangers.

00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:11.539
Americans are free people who know that
freedom is the right of every person

00:46:11.540 --> 00:46:14.734
And the future of every nation.

00:46:14.735 --> 00:46:19.414
Liberty we prize is not
America\'s gift to the world.

00:46:19.415 --> 00:46:23.220
It is God\'s gift to humanity.

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Well the claim is often made that the US is

00:46:32.630 --> 00:46:37.309
somehow different from other great
powers other imperial powers

00:46:37.310 --> 00:46:41.869
in that it exercises its
international power

00:46:41.870 --> 00:46:46.654
in an ethical way or in a moral way
and that somehow is different.

00:46:46.655 --> 00:46:49.399
All imperial powers of
always claim that for

00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:53.639
themselves and it\'s always been
a very misleading claim to make

00:46:53.640 --> 00:46:55.629
the United States pursues

00:46:55.630 --> 00:47:02.664
its own national interests as defined
by those who are empowered us.

00:47:02.665 --> 00:47:08.499
And ethics are not a part
of that calculation.

00:47:08.500 --> 00:47:12.770
The United States has always in its policy.

00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:16.869
Been motivated by the desire to

00:47:16.870 --> 00:47:21.969
control other countries it hasn\'t cared
whether these countries are dictatorships are

00:47:21.970 --> 00:47:24.709
democracies are one thing
and his cared about is

00:47:24.710 --> 00:47:28.449
will this government do what we tell it to

00:47:28.450 --> 00:47:32.079
do during the Cold War the excuse

00:47:32.080 --> 00:47:36.299
was communism were opposed to this
government because it\'s communist

00:47:36.300 --> 00:47:40.099
But that didn\'t make any sense
because the United States opposed

00:47:40.100 --> 00:47:43.969
governments that were not
Communist as in Guatemala in

00:47:43.970 --> 00:47:47.119
Chile not communists and maybe
slightly to the left you\'ll

00:47:47.120 --> 00:47:50.449
say but they simply these
are governments at

00:47:50.450 --> 00:47:53.509
nationalized in Guatemala
the sugar fields and

00:47:53.510 --> 00:47:56.989
she\'ll lay the you know
the copper companies.

00:47:56.990 --> 00:48:04.069
So so basically the United States wants
to control whoever governs Iraq.

00:48:04.070 --> 00:48:09.724
Now of course the empires loops were like
the United States is not that colonize it

00:48:09.725 --> 00:48:13.849
It\'s not that kind of an
empire but in the sense of

00:48:13.850 --> 00:48:17.959
being able to to be a hegemonic force which

00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:22.069
will determine the course of world
affairs and punish those who don\'t

00:48:22.070 --> 00:48:26.344
go along and tolerate
those who do go along.

00:48:26.345 --> 00:48:29.619
If that\'s what an empire is
it\'s not science secret.

00:48:29.620 --> 00:48:34.579
When Bush and Pell and the rest of
them go to the Security Council.

00:48:34.580 --> 00:48:38.029
They say it you know they
say as clearly as they

00:48:38.030 --> 00:48:42.724
can you can go along with it
give us the authority want

00:48:42.725 --> 00:48:46.939
you want and be relevant or you

00:48:46.940 --> 00:48:51.804
can withhold that authority and we\'ll
do it anyway and you\'ll be irrelevant.

00:48:51.805 --> 00:48:55.294
And parallel Bush everyone else says it.

00:48:55.295 --> 00:49:02.209
Those words How can you
not hear them takes.

00:49:02.210 --> 00:49:07.729
You have to be obsessively
death not to hear them.

00:49:07.730 --> 00:49:11.659
So yeah of course they\'re telling
us that clue as they can.

00:49:11.660 --> 00:49:15.049
In fact the way they\'re trying
to line people up first

00:49:15.050 --> 00:49:18.889
supportive the war is just you know I mean

00:49:18.890 --> 00:49:21.889
if if I mean it\'s being
reported but it\'s being

00:49:21.890 --> 00:49:25.744
reported as if it makes without
explaining what it means.

00:49:25.745 --> 00:49:27.979
And what they\'re saying what
they\'re telling countries

00:49:27.980 --> 00:49:31.609
is Hugo along with us or
you\'re going to be punished.

00:49:31.610 --> 00:49:34.594
And we\'d have a lot of
ways of punishing you

00:49:34.595 --> 00:49:37.429
So you go along with us
cause we\'re strong and

00:49:37.430 --> 00:49:40.324
violent and repressive.
That\'s what they\'re saying.

00:49:40.325 --> 00:49:42.619
And if you don\'t go along
with us or you\'re gonna

00:49:42.620 --> 00:49:45.259
feel it and that\'s supposed
to be a good thing.

00:49:45.260 --> 00:49:51.090
I mean you know we have examples like
that history will look back very far.

00:50:27.630 --> 00:50:29.900
Mm-hm.

00:51:00.660 --> 00:51:05.490
If you

00:51:11.550 --> 00:51:19.550
do it on

00:51:30.030 --> 00:51:32.570
your server.

00:51:50.230 --> 00:51:53.100
The meaning is

00:52:41.380 --> 00:52:49.380
review your

00:53:00.390 --> 00:53:05.224
times table.

00:53:05.225 --> 00:53:09.669
And this

00:53:09.670 --> 00:53:17.130
is a small book

00:53:46.870 --> 00:53:53.400
because to do

00:54:03.910 --> 00:54:06.240
so

00:54:50.790 --> 00:54:53.120
Yeah