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Lynne Cheney,
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went on Fox and said,

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"I’d really like to see President Obama

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move to ask the government of Iceland
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I’d like to see him move
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if Iceland won’t do it.” Julian?

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Yeah, a source of great delight

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in Iceland, actually—that statement,
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She is a not terribly liked individual.

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Well, I shouldn’t say that, actually.

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Her father is a not well liked
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And she seems to share
the same politics and patronage,

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networking, their extended friends
and so on.

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So, the Icelandic people are fierce
and fiercely independent,

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and I’m sure they’re not going
to be cowered by Liz Cheney.

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Right, that was Liz Cheney,
Cheney’s daughter.

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How are you protecting yourself
at this point, Julian Assange?

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Well, I would like to tell you all
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but, you know, that might not be wise.

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However, there are countries,
Western countries,

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even countries in NATO,

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that are strongly supportive
of what we do politically.

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And, for example, the UK
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UK Parliament has announced
two inquiries

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into Afghanistan,

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one on the civilian casualties

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and the other on what is
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and how to get out of it.

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The Dutch government

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just formally announced

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its exit from Afghanistan.

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And other governments around the world
involved in the ISAF coalition have,

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in bigger and small ways,

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announced that they are trying

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to do something about the revelations
in this material.

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And all of them

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are taking note
of what the United States’ attitude is,

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which is
instead of immediately saying

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these revelations are a serious concern,

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we never wanted to harm Afghan civilians or to bribe the media,

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as an example
of one of the revelations in there,

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and we intend to launch
an immediate investigation

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to understand this
and compensate those people accordingly

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and change our procedures—

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that’s what the rest of the world
wants to hear.

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That’s what Afghanistan,
the people of Afghanistan want to hear.

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But instead they heard

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a personal attack on me
and on our organization

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and an announcement
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the whistleblower or whistleblowers
involved in this.

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And now we see them living up
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and stalking around Boston,

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and spying and harassing MIT graduates,

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and trunking around the United Kingdom,

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where they raided Manning,

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the alleged whistleblower,

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for a video release called
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in her home in Wales.

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Well, Julian Assange,
we’re going to leave it there,

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founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks,
speaking to us from abroad.

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This is Democracy Now!,
democracynow.org,

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the War and Peace Report.

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And on that issue of "Collateral Murder,"

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what WikiLeaks called the video
of July 12th, 2007, of a military,

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US military Apache attack
on residents of Baghdad,

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two Reuters employees killed in that,

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you can go to our website,
democracynow.org,

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to see the discussion and the video.

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And also an update to one of our headlines

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Al Jazeera is now reporting at least three lebani soldiers

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have been killed by israeli forces in a exchange of rocket and gun fire

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along the border between the two countries.

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A lebanist journalist was also killed and five more lebani soldiers wounded

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in Israeli shelling.

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At least two israeli soldiers were shot

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That does it for the show, Democracy Now is produced by Mike Berg

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Special thanks to Elizabeth Press, Julie Crosby,

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Our website is democracynow.org

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Thanks to also to

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I am Amy Goodman, thank you so much for joining us