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Citizens Hearing On U.S. Actions in Iraq
Darrell Anderson and Chanan Suarez-Diaz IVAW Testimony
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Daniel Ellsberg, Denis Halliday, Antonia Juhasz, and MORE!
 Citizen's Hearing on the Legality of US Actions in Iraq or the Case of Lt. Ehren Watada  Contact Contributor
Jan. 22, 2007, 11:38 p.m.
Darrell Anderson Army 1st Armored Division in Baghdad & Najaf; awarded Purple Heart
Chanan Suarez-Diaz - Former Navy hospital corpsman; Purple Heart & Commendation with Valor After the video testimony came two Iraq War veterans, and their stor
Committee for Citizens Hearing on U.S. Actions in Iraq or the Case of Lt. Ehren Watada.
After the video testimony came two Iraq War veterans, and their testimony was extremely moving, albeit a bit anecdotal, although I think that'™s what we wanted of them. There are some firsthand accounts of incidents involving war crimes. Around 16 minutes into the testimony Darrell Anderson says, and I paraphrase, '˜I must commit war crimes to go to war'™. His testimony is somewhere around 20 minutes long.
After Anderson came Chanan Suarez-Diaz. He talked about 'Rules of Engagement', and one point in the war where he saw a platoon of guys just open up on a marketplace in a city, leaving the dead strewn all around the marketplace. The subject matter here is obscene, and you will find language that KUOW would definitely have to edit, however, this with some other testimony from Antonia Juhasz, or John Burroughs, Daniel Ellsberg could be edited into a GREAT show.

After testimony there is sometimes extensive questions from the panel, and answers from the testifiers. In the questions, David Krieger asks if the Army Field Manual is still a part of their training. Then there'™s the question about whether there is still fragging in the army, which precipitates a story about an officer trying to send a unit on a suicide mission. Basically the unit mutinies, and the officer changes the orders. There was a question about racism in the military, as in is it still there. The answer was yes, but maybe not the answer you'™d expect. There'™s a long standing ovation at the end of this testimony.

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00:51:29 1 Jan. 21, 2007
The Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus, Tacoma, Washington USA
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