Berg, Thomas - short clip - WeAlwaysRegretItLater
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- | Our country knows what's right and what's wrong. | 0:00 |
I think we know it instinctively. | 0:04 | |
We've got it in our charter, uh, in our founding documents. | 0:05 | |
And I think we know when we go astray of that. | 0:13 | |
Knowledge of what is right. | 0:19 | |
We always regret it later. | 0:23 | |
Why it is we don't stop and think at the time, | 0:25 | |
I don't know, | 0:27 | |
whether it's just the impulsiveness, | 0:28 | |
of our national character. | 0:30 | |
The willingness to take a shortcut, | 0:32 | |
if that's a flaw in America too. | 0:35 | |
What-What we did in Guantanamo, | 0:40 | |
and what we did in Abu Ghraib. | 0:43 | |
And what we've subsequently done, | 0:45 | |
in smaller scale in other places, | 0:47 | |
are disgraceful things. | 0:49 | |
That hurt us in the world. | 0:51 | |
That actually cost soldiers lives, later on. | 0:53 | |
We polled the detainees, | 0:58 | |
and we had like 25,000 detainees in Iraq at one time, | 1:01 | |
in some of our institutions. | 1:04 | |
Every one of them had been exposed to the imagery, | 1:07 | |
from Abu Ghraib. | 1:09 | |
The guy who was spread out with wires, | 1:11 | |
and hood over his head. | 1:13 | |
They'd all seen that. We made that. | 1:14 | |
And our soldiers died. | 1:19 | |
And a lot of Iraqi's died because that was done. | 1:20 | |
It was utterly unnecessary. | 1:23 |
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