We caught the Estonian President for a short interview after his speech at the Young Atlanticists Summit in Bucharest.

Winter Soldier 2008

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Winter Soldier testimonials
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) hold press conference in Washington, DC

Friday March 14th, 2008

This month, for four days in Washington, DC, beginning on March 13, there will be a second Winter Soldier gathering -- 37 years after the first. Organized by the protest group Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan since the 9/11 attack on New York will testify about their experiences.

They will present photographs and videos, recorded with mobile phones and digital cameras, to back up their allegations -- of brutality, torture and murder.

The veterans are not against the military and seek not to indict it -- instead they seek to shine a light on the bigger picture: that the Abu Ghraib prison regime and the Haditha massacre of innocent Iraqis are not isolated incidents perpetrated by "bad seeds" as the military suggests, but evidence of an endemic problem. They will say they were tasked to do terrible things and point the finger up the chain of command, which ignores, diminishes or covers up routine abuse and atrocities. (From the London Sunday Times, see full article in context link below)

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Ian McShane discusses his character Al Swearengen, on HBO's Deadwood.

Visit charlierose.com to see the full interview.

Here are some points of view from people on Dupont Circle, the day after the 4000th US soldier was killed in Iraq. The respondents were all against the war from the beginning, and express a desire to see a responsible end to the war.

Former Commander of U.S. forces in the first Gulf War, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf and newly appointed Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in a 1997 interview, defend the decision not to go on into Baghdad and remove Saddam Hussein from power after the first Gulf War in 1991.

An ominous and prescient warning totally ignored by the Neo-Cons in the Bush II Administration.

From PBS Frontline's "The Gulf War", 1997.

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The ongoing saga of horrible homemade candidate supporter videos continues. Jim and I posted two from Hillary supporters about a month ago (bad, worse?). Now the McCain girls come out swinging with "Raining McCain".. get ready for pain.

A short film showing different perspectives on display at the Anti War Demonstration in Washington DC on the 19th of March 2008. During the day I got the opportunity to speak to Mike Gravel, a Democratic Presidential candidate in the 2008 Race. Chad Longel, a pro military activist and Frida Berrigan a prominent anti war activist and senior program associate at the New America Foundation.

How will he get on the ballot

Kosovo declared independence on the 17th of February but what was the significance for the rest of the world? Separatists from Europe to Asia were encouraged by the event whilst many countries with active politically orientated minorities feared the repercussions. George Turner discusses the fall out from Kosovo on this week's World From Washington.