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I think we are getting closer to that. Somebody said do you think there will be a president by that time if young enough maybe. Thank you very much, barney frank. [applause] its a hard thing to believe that the United States of america is spending nearly 1 billion per week in iraq and here in new orleans, the United States we are being neglected. Why do we have to beg and plead when our president , our congressman, our elected leaders when we tell them we need help when its on the media everyday. [applause] this is the United States of america. The young lady mentioned earlier that we rebuilt japan after destroying japan. This is new orleans, a very specific cultural society. I love new orleans. We have purchased a total of 107 trailers on four different sites but when you walk across the street here you will see 42 of them ....
Thats one of the breaks. Every brick in the home was a hand cut piece of italian marble the wealth and saddams personal home was unbelievable and so one day as i walked by it was getting late at the mission and i knew we were going to be going home before too long. Host you talk about the crystal. What are the rules of taking Something Like that . Guest the rules largely where we gave specific instructions to our soldiers that anything that was museum related antiquities anything like that was absolutely handsoff. Armed combatants and enemies that you fight are different story. We brought back uniforms. I have a uniform of saddams one of only two that im aware of in the country. On display at the Oklahoma History center in a hama city. I think the other one is on display in florida. Im not aware of any others. I have a lot of other interesting things but they were all relat ....
[applause] thank you and welcome barney frank. First ill ask some questions and then well go to questions from the audience which i have one of these cards, so i will access or reject them. [applause] i was hoping you can say a little bit about the two stories that you tried to tell, the political stories that you tried to tell in this book which is about your life and also political work. Its as i start writing that there are two things. I was a normal teenager, my father, working programs. [inaudible] so these hearings were fascinated to me. I also decided something i have to get into politics. I was debating and arguing as i was a kid. Better than some adults. [laughs] i could do that. At the same time i realized [inaudible] so i began to say, i want to be influential, but i never will be because im gay. By the time i retired there was a disparity from being gave and politics, but the order has reversed. [laughs] i get married. I was the first member of congress to have the samesex ....
Year from 2003 to 2004. Host what month of 2003 . Guest i got there in may and i left in april. Host why do you refer to to the special ops guys as guest many of these guys are still serving and i dont want to give away their identities. Some i was able to on the conventional side. The folks on the unconventional side have been respectful to them and they have been respectful to me. The book really tells that relationship between the conventional and unconventional and how we operate together and it wasnt necessarily by design. Like i said it was by geography and we worked very well and closely together. Host congressman russell you recount in we got him your conversation with paul wolfowitz. What did you tell him . Guest well he came to look at some of the afghan training efforts. Secretary rumsfeld have asked that we train the iraqi army. I have had great experience in that area was training the Afghan National army and was on ....
Tls and panamerica, and its a total delight to discuss the issue of free speech which never seems to go away. As i edit a literary magazine, i thought id begin things with a literary angle. In britain he wrote the polemic against [inaudible] and in it he said this which has continued to resound, give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties. But before we get mistyeyed though, he also said this those which otherwise come forth, if they be found mischievous and libelous, the executionist will become the remedy to follow. He was the godfather of i believe in Free Expression but, which has been active as a brigade ever since. As were going to discuss over the next 50 minutes, free speech is never in practice absolute. The question before us today is how much it should be championed over other rights, especially in universities. And those rights might include the right not to be ....