It’s Monday, that must mean politics. Marie Cocco, columnist for Newsday, joins us to dissect the news from Washington DC. In addition she will provide analysis on John Kerry’s speech at Westminster College, four days after Dick Cheney’s speech at the same campus. Also, Britain’s secretary of state for the environment, Seymour Hersh on prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib prison, and your calls.
Westminster Kerry Club
Marie Cocco columnist, Newsday discusses Washington politics and comments on John Kerry’s speech at Westminster College on Iraq.
London Weather
Margaret BeckettSecretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Member of Tony Blair's Cabinet discusses climate change and the differences between the British and American policy.
Hersh Words
Seymour Hersh Staff Writer at the New Yorker Against All Enemies (Ballantine Books, 1998) discusses his report on torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Open Phones
listeners call in with their thoughts on Army National Guard 1st Lt. Paul Rieckhoff
KERRY GETS SPECIFIC, HERSH REVEALS HORRORS
On today’s show, we play excerpts from John Kerry’s Westminster College speech Friday, his most specific yet about what he’d do differently in Iraq. Wonder why this was only on page A12 of Saturday’s NY Times. Here is a link to the full text. http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0430.html
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