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Given Trump’s massive military budget proposal and the 14th Anniversary of the United States war in Iraq, we bring you this program from our archives with the voices of U.S. Soldiers and Iraqis reflecting on the costs of war. Special thanks to KALW News in San Francisco. Photo Credit: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA.





Featuring:



George W. Bush, former U.S. President; Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense; Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State; Yara Badday, Iraqi-American; Paul Bremer, former U.S. Administrator to Iraq; Richard Becker, West Coast Coordinator for ANSWER Coalition; Paul Wolfowitz, former Deputy Secretary of Defense; Ghazwan Al-sharif, Iraqi translator; Ryan Berg, U.S. Marine; Starlyn Lara, U.S. Army; Jordan Towers, U.S. Marine; Barack Obama, U.S. President; Aaron Glantz, journalist.



Credits:



Host: Anita Johnson and Kyung Jin Lee

Staff Producers: Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada, Andrew Stelzer, Esther Manilla

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Web Editor & Audience Engagement Manager: Sabine Blaizin



Special thanks to KALW News in San Francisco.



Featured Music:



Blue Dot Sessions: Lesser Gods of Metal.



Photo Credits:





flickr user Brooke Anderson



For More information:



KALW News (http://www.kalwnews.org/)

Aaron Glantz (http://www.aaronglantz.com/) , reporter and author of The War Comes Home

Answer Coalition (http://answercoalition.org/national/i...)

Iraq Veterans Against the War (http://www.ivaw.org/)

Swords to Plowshares (http://www.swords-to-plowshares.org/)

Coalition for Iraq + Afghanistan (http://coalitionforveterans.org/)

Veterans for Peace (http://www.radioproject.org/2011/04/t...)

Civilian-Soldier Alliance (http://www.civsol.org/)

War Resisters League (http://www.warresisters.org/)

Veteran Artists (http://www.radioproject.org/2011/04/t...)



Articles and Books:

Happy anniversary, Iraq War (http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/post...) by Matthew Duss, Michael Cohen, Foreign Policy

Clamor (http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/A...) , by Elise Fenton, Cleveland State University Poetry Center

War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War with Iraq (http://www.versobooks.com/authors/118...) ed. Milan Rai, Verso

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations (http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Wint...) by Iraqi Veterans Against the War & Aaron Glantz, Haymarket Books

The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan (http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/The-...) by Dahr Jamail, Haymarket Books



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