a lot of these guys before their trial. so they hadn t been sentenced. they re just being tortured and you look at terrorism in the dictionary, that s what you see what our government s doing to these people in this book is the best opportunity for, you know, the masses to understand what what they re experiencing from their own hand . i just have trouble, believe that this could go on for over two years and none of the people that these defendants have voted for over the years stood up to defend them. with a few honorable exceptions, like where are the republicans in congress? i think that every time i hear it well, i think this is more proof of that unit party we keep talking about. and tim rivers that put this book together saw this need and just said , you know, the public needs to have these stories and unfortunately, we should never have a book like this in america. we should never have a gulag in america. but the awareness and the media curtain has been closed on this situation.
documenting abuse and graphic photos. in a nation that sent hundreds of accused detainees to a gulag at guantánamo bay, since 2002, and none remain charged with a crime, in some cases because they were tortured. so the testimonies unusable. bush s lives further destroyed americans trust in government and broke our politics, giving lies to none other than donald trump, who during his 2016 campaign, pointed to the lies and bad decisions by bush s team, as his argument, to voters. despite the fact that when it started, he supported the war. most importantly, though, there is a devastating human toll of that catastrophic war that began two decades ago today. a brown university study found between 275 and 306,000 iraqi civilians were killed by direct violence following the u.s. invasion, in addition to more than 1000 american military personnel and contractors who lost their lives, and tens of thousands injured. joining me now is jon soltz, chairman of votevets. he is a two tour iraq war
this was done with bad information or false information where these types of things. i look at all of them, and people say to me all the time, how did you know? how did you know that this was bogus? and the truth is they knew, too. a lot of the people knew. but the question was, could you question or stand up, or look past what you saw from, you know, certain networks and what they were spewing at the time. could you look past, you know, the vanishing of the dixie chicks, and do some critical thinking to realize that maybe said on hussein wants people to think he has weapons of mass destruction. and fundamentally, that is still the core challenge that we face, which is our truly misinterpretation of the perception that he portrayed and then essentially we destabilize the entire region. and then essentially w destabilfor many, many years. i mean, you know, even the tie to get no, this was his global war on terror we were allowed to open this gulag. but they were torturing people there
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cases are tonight. so, yes, there are well, at a least a hundred men have been held under pretrial detentionere orders over the past two years. that means pat m that a judge hs denied them bail because the government, doj, successfully argued that that individual was a threat to the community. this includes, tucker, people charged with nonviolent offenses like obstruction and conspiracy. sonspiracy, of course,, of coure access to what could very easily be exculpatory evidenceon contained in this video.ed video, but a but aside from the now, i think around three dozen men who arenn held under pretrial detention orders, tucker, believe it or s not, there areom some men going on . twenty four . twenty five . twenty six months denied bail languishing in jail, including the d.c. gulag. as the government continues to delay their trials. this all has the imprimatur, by the way, ofth everye judge on the d.c. district court. i want to emphasize the realn wc