 We're with colonel and right who's flown in all the way from Hawaii to the relatively cooler temperatures of Washington And what does this rally mean to you right now in the state that we're in well Joe as you mentioned? I'm a retired army colonel I'm almost also a former US diplomat that almost 20 years ago to them to the month I resigned an opposition to another war and that was the US war on Iraq So this one of the war in Ukraine no matter what the rationale is for these wars that our governments Whether it's the Russian government the US government give to the world for needing to have a war We know what it results in it results and millions of people either being killed being injured They're homes destroyed the economy destroyed somewhere and it just plain wrong So I'm here to say yeah one more time know to these wars and talk dialogue negotiate and stop the Killings and what do you think is going to happen in Ukraine? Do you have any hope for a negotiated settlement? No, I think there is some hope I mean the the global south As a unit has told during the United Nations that that this these wars need to end We now have China that says on the 24th of February they're going to announce their attempt at The escalation trying to get this going president Lula of Brazil has already told president I'll go I won't participate in more weapons, but I will help help in sponsoring negotiations and talk so there are more people stepping in besides the Turks have been trying even the Israelis have tried Saudi Arabian plan But Biden's uninterested in peace talks as we saw they've stopped the Israeli Prime Minister revealed a couple of weeks that the Americans stopped Working on a peace plan. We know about Boris Johnson showing up It looks like they want to keep this war going as long as possible to weaken and they still have fantasies of toppling Well indeed and that's why we are having this rally Today, even though there are lots of groups that are in it that I don't agree with on much of anything But I agree with them on this and I'll stand here on this platform to say no to these wars And it's our job as US citizens to get our Congress and the president to stop this shit I'll let one last question in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 the way the Television in particular, but the newspapers prime this country the population for war was something I'd never But it seems to be even even worse And it was our the US government George Bush and all those war criminals saying it's weapons of mass destruction That's why we've got to go in and destroy and yet there were voices out there saying there are no weapons of mass destruction left We know that and yet the propaganda was so strong The largest protest in the history of the world all over the world Stupid ass George Bush went ahead and started that war and you have you know, millions of you Iraqis that had to flee as refugees people that were You know their homes destroyed It was horrible and finally it ended. Well this time around the propaganda is easier for you to say they got Russian food So they could easily point that this is the aggressor The Nazis rejected the treaty proposals the fact that never implemented on purpose And trying to prevent the next war is a critical part of trying to end this part This war right now. Very good. Thank you so much