 Hi, my name is Ed Begley Jr. and I'm part of a wonderful group that includes my friend Jody Evans and Ed Asner and James Cromwell Some people who were concerned back in 2002 is my memory. Let me look at the dates. Yes. I have such things I dated it on the 9th of September 2002. I Took part in this and I'm gonna hold up here for a second How to create a million new terrorists bomb Iraq That's what we were afraid was going to happen. We were very concerned about the war There was about a hundred of us as I remember Who artists who were concerned about this we signed a document which I'll hold up in a moment, too But we relied on experts really is what happened people like Admiral Eugene Carroll who was present the press conference that I took part in My friend Robert Burns who's a former Marine people who have served At you Admiral Eugene Carroll by the way was quite expert in the Mediterranean theater and Quite a heroic guy to take a stand like that, but I relied on Information from military experts it seemed like a bad idea to me But what do I know? So I talked to people who know about such things and they all thought it was a bad idea We suspected that they were all lies about the weapons of mass destruction and of course that was correct We were there's no joy in being right about any of this We thought a lot of people would be injured so we took out this ad about the lies and truth about The the time leading up to the war in Iraq and here's the actual ad I believe what were the war With Iraq accomplished a million new terrorists and you see my name and many other names there on That list what's interesting is The media's reaction to this certain media certainly on Fox news I'm told by one friend of mine Ira Miller. He said he heard Sean Hannity say that Ed Asner, Jamie Cromwell Myself shall all be tried for sedition for taking out this ad Sedition You know we engaged apparently I found a document here, too. I even gave some money. I'm happy I did that I wasn't sure about that, but I keep such things for reference in the future But my memory is very clear of being at this press conference I believe it was on Las Palmas in Hollywood, and I think the wonderful Jody Evans was there I'm very certain that at Asner and James Cromwell were there I know that Admiral Eugene Carroll was there and that Robert Burns my friend who's a Marine was there And we talked about these things and we thought it was a very bad idea There would be a lot of collateral damage Some people call it another way to refer to it is dead civilians and that's exactly what happened As some of you might know I'm involved in a lot of environmental matters And there's a grave environmental cost to these expeditions these wars into foreign lands and these radioactive shell casings the amount of lead the amount of damage to the water table the The loss of property and life and limb in every way the loss of flora and fauna You destroy the environment when you go in and wreak havoc With these kinds of weapons there and we've seen it in vietnam with Agent orange We've seen it with a devastation environmental and otherwise that was created in Iraq And we we have to stop this. It's a another Environmental disaster that we are creating We must stay united now as there are other talk and bluster saber rattling about engaging in other wars people actually talking about nuclear options It's a very dangerous time we live in so we must as artists remain united and I look to the leadership of my friends That are very much engaged in this on I'm very grateful to know Robert Greenwald and Jody Evans and Ed James Cromwell and these people my friends in the military who've served and know about the the horrors of war and how It can be avoided in many instances so thank you so much and We must remain vigilant Ed Begley. I thank you