They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Chris Hedges interview - MP3/stream

db: Chris Hedges knows 'the lies that permeate the thick, self-important memoirs by amoral statesmen who make wars but do not know war'. Here, in an interview with Scott Horton on The Weekend Interview Show, Hedges discusses war, Islam, the 'Christian' right and the corrupting influence of violent conflict on individuals and culture.

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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, who has covered more than a dozen wars. He has been on the staff of The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, and The Christian Science Monitor. He also worked for National Public Radio. He is the author of the books: Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America, What Every Person Should Know About War and War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning. Currently he is at Princeton University as Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Ferris Professor of Journalism.