Script/Transcript for program: UK's Philippe Sands and US reporter Dahr Jamail on Iraq

Talk Nation Radio for March 30, 2006 features Attorney Philippe Sands of the UK about documents published in his book, "A lawless world, America and the making and breaking of global rules." Attorney Sands is also a professor of international law at University College of London and the founding member of the Matrix law office in London. His book and a memo that is now known as "the White House document" is described in a March 27th story by Don Van Natta Jr. in the New York Times. This is the memo where the President and Tony Blair meet to plan an invasion even without a UN vote, mentioning possibly having an Iraqi make a public statement to affirm Saddam Hussein's WMDs, or flying an aircraft with UN markings over Iraq so that Hussein might place himself in breach by trying to shoot it down, or assassinating Hussein. Then US journalist Dahr Jamail who spent 8 months in Iraq as a non-embedded journalist, joins us to talk about Bush administration policies, the war, and the media. We take a look at an NPR special on the rapid response center set up by Karen Hughes as her staff makes cold remarks about what they might say in response to negative stories and they casually mention what they did on that "white phosphorus" story: "Oh that's good. I like it. I like it. --The loss of any innocent life is a tragedy." Since Dahr Jamail broke the story of the US Military's illegal use of white phosphorus in Iraq, he comments on the NPR story. Jamail also discusses his March 3, 2006 Truthout story on John Negroponte, former US Ambassador to Iraq, now US National Intelligence Director. He cites Negroponte as resposible for creating death squads. 29:37 128 Music in and out http://www.talknationradio.org and http://www.talknation.org for transcripts Write to Talk Nation Radio at theshockvote@yahoo.com