We’re told that tonight’s 60 Minutes features a segment with Mike Wallace on “Wounds of War” featuring soldiers injured in Iraq. (60 Minutes’ website now has coverage of the segment, with a video link, but it’s not the complete segment apparently.)
The segment, third on tonight’s broadcast, features an interview with Tomas Young, whose story we first highlighted during our special “Operation Noble Cause” radio broadcasts on The BRAD SHOW from on the ground at “Camp Casey” in Crawford, TX, last summer. Apparently footage of me interviewing Young is a quick part of the segment.
Army Specialist Young was paralyzed from the waist down — on the same day and in the same city as Cindy Sheehan’s son, Casey — while riding in a canvas-covered truck through Sadr City during the uprising there.
Young is seen in the photo at right at Camp Casey with his new wife, Bree, requesting a meeting with Bush. They had come to Crawford on their honeymoon. Bush had refused a meeting with Sheehan at the time on the grounds that he’d already met with her. As far as we know, Bush has still never met with Young, who wanted to ask him why he was refusing to support Stem Cell research so that he might someday be able to walk again.
— The initial BRAD BLOG item on Young from Aug. 29, 2005 is right here.
— My radio interview from Camp Casey on that same day with Young is right here [MP3].
UPDATE: Have now seen the segment, and it was interesting. We’ll try to get it up here. One thing I didn’t know until tonight was that Tomas’ brother is still serving in Iraq. So for those who suggest that what Young is doing — in speaking out against the war — is harming our troops…well…he made clear on 60 Minutes that’s the last thing he’d want to do with a brother still serving there!
FURTHER UPDATE: Here’s the segment! Courtesy of the invaluable David Edwards!
Video in Streaming Flash format…
(Hat-tip Jesse of Stakeholder for the heads-up!)
Hey Brad you looked great.I knew it was you right away. I remember listening to your interview with Tom Young in Crawford. It was right before Katrina. The whole 60 minutes episode was very good tonight. Corruption in Iraq(billions of dollars missing),Too many of our soldiers coming home with life altering wounds and Stem Cell research. Andy spoke about the waste in Iraq.I hope a lot of people watched this segment tonight. It should wake up the masses about the crisis we are really in,in this country. Sigh,I can only hope.
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WooHoo! I saw you too on 60 Minutes!
That was an interesting segment – I must’ve been too caught up in it to notice Brad.
How about that exposé on the sleazy contractors? Those two clowns were real special.
Appearing by phone on Friday’s Imus in the Morning radio simulcast on MSNBC, to plug his then-upcoming Sunday night 60 Minutes report on the struggles and achievements of some military members severely wounded in Iraq, Mike Wallace admitted he was "astonished" at how "almost all of them support the war despite the fact that it’s taken such a toll on them." He elaborated, "We asked them flat out: What about should we be there? And the ones that are the most severely hit believe yes, we should have been there. They are not angry at the President…"
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"Mike Wallace admitted he was "astonished" at how "almost all of them support the war despite the fact that it’s taken such a toll on them." He elaborated, "We asked them flat out: What about should we be there? And the ones that are the most severely hit believe yes, we should have been there. They are not angry at the President…"
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Should have been there – perhaps Afganistan but Iraq…that is not what I hear from the young returning to our town.
Isn’t it strange that San Antonio is building a rehab for wounded vets not using government funds. Could be because our young are not being given the treatment many need in the overcrowded VA hospitals now.
As for speaking freely, ask the VA nurse who lost her job for writting her opinion to a newspaper. So, how free is anyone in the military to speak out?
What happened to the young man asking Rumsfeldt for vehicle armor, pretty quiet there as well. AND by the way, our men and women ARE STILL waiting for body armor. And those daring to buy their own were forced to not wear them, even tho theirs proved more reliable than what the Army provided.
OH, also the Generals were allowed to wear the specialized bodyarmor even tho the guys were not.
It goes on and on…don’t tell me about being allowed to speak your mind if the Army owns you.
Yes, I too saw Brad’s head on 60 minutes too, but when Wallace was asking those Iraq vets about their feelings I saw a LOT of pauses and waffling, first guy just talked like a good soldier "Our President says we need to be there", after a significant pause. Many vets cannot fathom that they have been lied to and used and they still retain the soldier mindset. The human mind tries to justify what it has been through and its a sanity-saving gesture to just say "it was worth it". Lets hope we see Brad on 60 minutes soon in another story, maybe with Clint Curtis with a right between the eyes story for the American TV watcher on systemic electrion fraud….I can hope anyway.
And since the MSM never spins to us, or lies to us, or shows staged government propaganda, I recon we can accept what Wallace says ("almost all of them support the war despite the fact that it’s taken such a toll on them." ). We can also just ignore the -fact- that the government is engaging in showing the troops over there nothing but more propaganda to keep their "spirits up".
Funny how "almost all of them" ‘support the war’, or ‘support their president’ when SO MANY are involved in PROTESTS back home here, or start their own coalitions of Iraq Vets against the war.
And that 15 yr. old girl in 1991 that saw Saddam’s soldiers drop babies on the floor in a hospital and stole their incubators.. testified to Congress of such.. na, she wasn’t later proved to be the Kuwaiti Embassador’s daughter and the ENTIRE story fabricated.
Anyone that isn’t pissed at Bush isn’t paying attention.. well, that or they are liars and decievers and manupulators themselves.. or perhaps just despicable human beings.. either way…
{Ed note: Comment deleted. One disinfo post too many. You’re gone, Jose. Sorry. You had been warned many times.}
So, Jose.. you think it best if the government sends citizens to die and be maimed for life, but then not take care of them after it does that? kind of like borrowing a friend’s car and crashing it, then saying "take it to your own body shop, I’m not fixing it".. NICE!
As I read about the Sedition issue (nurse who lost her job and might be facing charges).. she didn’t sign the letter ‘as a nurse working for the government’.. That is, I can say "I’m a software engineer" and then talk about electronic voting.. where the point is to lend some credibility to my "opinion".. her saying she’s a nurse is no different.. Now, if I sign the letter with my employeer "name" (in her case, something like "RN, Willmington Veteran’s Hospital".. you know, the "professional way to sign a letter that indicates you are speaking for the ‘company’ you work for"? or are you not in the professional realm and understand what I’m saying?), -then- I’m speaking "for the company".. she made no such signature, therefore she’s speaking as a "private citizen".. I take your repsonses to mean "you don’t think people should be allowed to speak their opinions".. or perhaps you only mean people with first hand knowledge shouldn’t inform others? or have educated opinions? I know it’s counter to how YOU form opinions, but to deny others to not be a moron like you? seems kind of petty to me.
And the last I heard, the armour was "available to the military", but wasn’t being "shipped to the troops".. saying it’s "just a lie" and not showing ANY statements from anyone in authority who can confirm that armour IS BEING GIVEN TO THE TROOPS is to again try to misinform.. Show some kind of evidence that counters PUBLICIZED info (no armour to troops), or keep you accusations to yourself. Calling someone a liar when you don’t offer -any- indication of substantiation is pathetic.
Missed this bit as well..
"before advocating the removal of this Administration by the use of force"
I guess you just don’t get the difference in the statement "we must be forcefull in persuing the removal of this Administration" and "we must remove this Administration with force", eh? Your MISQUOTE clearly shows you either can’t read, or want to twist this for your own ends..
She didn’t sign the letter with any "officiality".. nor did she suggest "using force against anyone". She said "be forceful".. HUGE difference there, but I guess only to those that can read above a 9th grade level. Your twisting of the facts shows your dishonesty.. I recon you must be one of those despicable human beings I was talking about.. try a little honesty once in a while, you might like the results.
Jose
You are a lying shill of ignorance. They are all against the war because of what its really about, and if you actually *READ* the news asshole instead of speculate you see the body armor was never delivered.
They still have the same terrible armor from months ago, and the pentagon barely keeps their pensions going. Spin that, got it? CNN..
Doug E