1:22:03
They've threatened to burn these hostages alive
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if Japan does not withdraw its troops from Iraq
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within three days.
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What's happened?
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Well, they attacked our convoy.
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The Pentagon might keep up to twenty-four thousand troops
1:22:24
in combat beyond their tour.
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I know our numbers in the military have gone down.
1:22:28
They talk about retention.
1:22:31
You never really expect to be deployed this long.
1:22:35
I don't think anybody did.
1:22:37
I don't have any clue as to why we're still in Iraq.
1:22:39
If Donald Rumsfeld was here,
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I'd ask him for his resignation.
1:22:44
With the war not going as planned,
1:22:47
and the military in need of many more troops,
1:22:50
where would they find the new recruits?
1:22:53
Military experts say three times the 120,000 US troops
1:22:57
now deployed would be needed
1:22:58
to pacify and rebuild the country.
1:23:02
They would find them all across America
1:23:05
in the places that had been destroyed by the economy.
1:23:09
Places where one of the only jobs available
1:23:12
was to join the Army.
1:23:14
Places like my hometown of Flint, Michigan.
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And I was watchin' TV one day
1:23:19
and they showed like some of the buildings
1:23:20
and areas that had been hit by bombs,
1:23:22
and things like that,
1:23:23
and when I was watchin' I got to thinkin'
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there's places in Flint look like that,
1:23:28
and we ain't been in a war.
1:23:30
Look at the neighborhood I live in.
1:23:32
Most of them are abandoned.
1:23:34
I mean, that's not right.
1:23:36
You want to talk about terrorism?
1:23:37
Come right here.
1:23:38
President Bush,
1:23:39
right here, come.
1:23:40
Come right here.
1:23:41
He's knows about this corner -- I e-mailed him.
1:23:44
At the end of January of '04
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the unemployment rate in Flint was actually 17%.
1:23:50
But you have to take into consideration as well
1:23:52
that when you're unemployment runs out
1:23:54
you're no longer counted.
1:23:55
I would have to say
1:23:56
that we're probably close to at least 50%
1:23:58
not working or under-employed.