From My Lai to Abu Ghraib to Afghanistan, we have seen the all-too-familiar pattern: denials followed by excuses followed by faux apologies and offical handwringing. What is never examined is how each event fits into the bigger picture of the dehumanization of war. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we go in search of the thread that connects our own time to the history that helps to explain it.
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| Brig. Gen. talks about video of Marines pissing on Taliban | |
| Time Reference: | 03:34 |
| Marines urinate on dead bodies | |
| Time Reference: | 04:32 |
| Hillary Clinton condemns Marines’ Afghanistan video | |
| Time Reference: | 05:48 |
| Michael Savage: Don’t punish brave Marines | |
| Time Reference: | 07:24 |
| Barack Obama should pardon Marines in corpse case | |
| Time Reference: | 07:34 |
| Rick Perry jumps to defense of Marines accused of urinating on Afghan corpses | |
| Time Reference: | 07:42 |
| Four Hours In My Lai | |
| Time Reference: | 10:52 |
| American Experience: My Lai | |
| Time Reference: | 25:18 |
| EXCLUSIVE: To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them | |
| Time Reference: | 26:02 |
| Are you longing for Seymour Hersh Coverage? Well, One Way to Bring Him Back… | |
| Time Reference: | 26:26 |
| Seymour Hersh: Mario Savio Memorial Lecture | |
| Time Reference: | 27:22 |
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