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Molly Bingham and Steve Connors: Meeting Resistance
Recorded Live
Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, 9:30 am PST
G U E S T
Molly Bingham and Steve Connors,
Filmmakers of the award-winning documentary about the Iraqi occupation from the citizens’ point of view.
Moderated by
The Very Rev. Alan Jones
Dean of Grace Cathedral
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About the Program
In August 1920, the British secretary of war, a man by the name of Winston Churchill, wrote this assessment of Mesopotamia, the area now known as Iraq: “It seems to me so gratuitous that after all the struggles of war, just when we want to get together our slender military resources and re-establish our finances and have a little in hand in case of danger here or there, we should be compelled to go on pouring armies and treasure into these thankless deserts.” Now finding ourselves in a similar situation 80 plus years later, as Iraqi and American diplomats negotiate and our presidential candidates debate, unlike the aggrieved Mr. Churchill, we must ask – what do the Iraqi people want, and what should we do?
This morning’s guests are photographers and journalists with 30 years of experience between them in countries that read like a Travel Advisory: Rwanda, the Congo, the Gaza Strip, Iran, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Afghanistan. In 2003 they were both in Iraq as the invasion began, and for the next year, they documented a story in their film, Meeting Resistance, not being significantly covered then or in fact much today – the opposition to the US military presence in Iraq.
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