We Are Many Page #9

It was illegal?

Yes, if you wish.

Which I think the vast majority of

international lawyers in the world

would say yes, he was right,

and I certainly affirm that it was true.

Crimes against humanity

were plainly committed.

War crimes were plainly committed.

There's no issue.

The photographic and documentary

evidence is overwhelming.

The holding nations accountable, you know,

that's for Liberia,

or that's for some small country.

None of the major heads of state,

when they engage

in these crimes against humanity,

are made accountable.

He's probably the only British

Prime Minister there has ever been

who cannot appear on the streets of London

or anywhere in the country

without there being near riots.

Why are the people who basically

pressed the button and said go

not accountable for the fact

that they blatantly lied to all of us?

It was a crime of the century.

We've campaigned now for an inquiry

for six and a half years.

Please, Mr. Blair,

give us 15 minutes of your time.

That's all we're asking.

Our loved ones gave their lives.

They gave the rest of their time.

Tony, we want just 15 minutes of yours.

We have formally sent a letter

through to his office,

and that request has been totally ignored.

We, like you, have also experienced

at first hand

the anger which is still felt

by many people in this country.

Can I ask whether you have regrets?

Responsibility, but not a regret

for removing Saddam Hussein.

- Come on!

- I think he was...

Be quiet, please.

They've got to give the appearance

of an inquiry

because people are so angry

about what happened,

but it's set up and framed in such a way

that nobody will be challenged.

Um, and it's...

It's what we call a whitewash.

Blair will go to his death

with Iraq printed on his heart,

and unforgiven.

Injustice doesn't go away.

It stays in the psyche.

It will eventually need to come out.

It will come out. Blood will have blood.

Sir Roderick...

There may be things said behind closed doors.

There may be doors

that are closed silently to Tony Blair.

But from my point of view, I'm sorry,

I think he should be, you know, at The Hague.

He should be tried

for war crimes against society.

I think he should.

If it were my choice to have

Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld,

George Bush go before some kind of tribunal,

and I had to go with them in order to be...

in order for that tribunal to be successful

or to even have a chance for success,

and that it was also possible I would be

in that conviction, if you will,

I'd do it in a heartbeat.

- You feel that strongly about it?

- I feel that strongly about it.

- Hello, ladies.

- Hello, Mr. Rumsfeld.

- Hi. How are you.

- Hi.

- How are you doing?

- Terrific.

They're all war criminals.

I saw Donald Rumsfeld

on the street in Washington

last year one time, and I was aghast.

"They let you walk around on the street

like a normal person?

Why aren't you in jail?"

- What are you here for tonight?

- It's the Correspondents' Dinner.

OK. Well, enjoy your evening, sir.

- Thank you very much.

- And madam.

Thank you.

- Good evening.

- Hello, folks.

- Welcome back.

- Thank you.

- Mr. Secretary.

- War criminal!

War criminal! War criminal!

Arrest this man! Arrest the war criminal!

War criminal!

- Arrest this man!

- Joyce, Joyce.

War criminal!

War criminal!

You're protecting a man

who's responsible for the deaths

of millions of Iraqis!

Shame on you!

Here comes the war criminal Donald Rumsfeld!

War criminal!

He killed people in Iraq!

War criminal!

We follow Rumsfeld and Cheney and Bush

and Condoleezza Rice and Karl Rove

and the people in these think tanks

that lied to get us into the war

and the journalists who lied

to get us into the war.

We are constantly following them.

We feel that we are

the sanity in this country.

We are the people who are

the conscience of this country,

and I think history will prove that we are.

Donald Rumsfeld, war criminal!

He killed people in Iraq!

War criminal! There's the war criminal!

After seeing everything

that the media was feeding us

and being misled by the Bush administration,

seven of us young veterans

got together in the same place

at the Veterans For Peace Conference

and formed this organization

called Iraq Veterans Against The War.

We continued to demonstrate

throughout all those years...

and ever since February 15th 2003,

we now thought of ourselves

as a global peace movement.

I never blinked. I never blinked.

I knew what my morals were.

I knew that the war was wrong,

and every ounce of my being compelled me

to continue protesting that war.

- No NATO, no war!

- No NATO, no war!

- We don't work for you no more.

- We don't work for you no more.

My name is Jason Hurd.

I spent ten years in the United States

Army as a combat medic.

I deployed to Baghdad in 2004.

I'm here to return my Global

War On Terrorism service medal

in solidarity with the people of Iraq

and the people of Afghanistan.

These were lies. I'm giving them back.

I'm one of 40,000 people that left

the United States Armed Forces

because this is a lie!

Our enemies are not 7,000 miles from home.

They sit in boardrooms. They are CEOs.

They are the millionaires and

billionaires who control this planet,

and we've had enough of it.

So they can take their medals back.

Egypt is tasting

its own dose of people power.

Such defiance here is rare

and could mark the beginning

of something bigger.

There is a big myth both in Egypt,

in the Arab world,

as well as the West

that this revolution in Egypt

broke out of the blue.

Some people deliberately tried to call it

a Facebook revolution or a Twitter revolution

or an internet revolution

or even a youth revolution,

uh, in order, more or less, to dismiss

the fact that this revolution

has been in the making

for at least ten years.

The demonstrations did not stop

after the invasion of Iraq. They went on.

True credit goes to these people

who were out there

ten years before it would actually

flower into something.

So God bless. That's what...

That's what revolutions come from.

11th February at 6:00 p.m.,

my mother told me, "Open the TV."

This huge, you know, headline

was spread across the screen.

And I was screaming and jumping up and down

and saying, "He's gone.

He's stepped down. He's stepped down."

I don't know. I lost control.

The first thing people of my generation

when they met,

obviously, you know, you get

the hugs and kisses and so on.

But the first words we would say is

"We lived to see it."

No matter what happens,

even if we end up in the short term

having an authoritarian military regime,

I think we realize that nobody

can do to us what used to be done.

Nobody can boss us around anymore.

No one can enslave us anymore

the way Mubarak did,

and eventually I think we're going

to get rid of the military.

This is one of the fruits

of the anti-war movement,

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