Code Pink Videos

John Yoo wrote legal briefs for the Bush-Cheney regime to justify torturing prisoners who were held for years without charges. According to the International Red Cross, over 100 prisoners died in these secret torture sessions. Some people defend John Yoo s position as a professor of law at UC Berkeley on grounds of free speech and academic freedom .

Recently the war in Afghanistan has taken over the front pages from Iraq, with recent polls showing a majority of Americans think the war is no longer worth fighting.

The war in Afghanistan will soon surpass Vietnam as the U.S.'s longest conflict, and yet for much of the past eight years it was overshadowed by the war in Iraq. It was considered both "the Good War" and the "Forgotten War," but lately has taken center stage in the news once again, as public support has dropped and Tuesday morning Matthew Hoh, a Foreign Service officer and former Marine, became the first U.S. official to resign in protest over the conduct of the war. Just what is the purpose of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan? Are we really there to protect people from the Taliban and to fight Al-Qaeda? Joining us to discuss are Kristen L. Rouse, founder of Veterans for Afghanistan, Nasrine Gross, President of Roqia Center for Rights, Studies and Education, Yifat Susskind, communications director for MADRE, and Jodie Evans of CodePink, who just returned from Afghanistan.

Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, Campus Antiwar Movement to End the Occupation (CAMEO), Rev. Jim Rigby, Spoken Word Poets, Community Activist, Castro's Beard, Joe Carr and the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), to name a few joined together to voice opposition the the war machine at the Healthcare Not Warfare Rally in Austin on Oct. 17, 2009.