Seymour Hersh: Bush & Foreign Policy (7 of 7)

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Seymour (Sy) Hersh is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.

His work first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. His 2004 reports on the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison gained much attention.

Hersh received the 2004 George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. This was his fifth George Polk Award, the first one being a Special Award given to him in 1969.

In 2006 he reported on the US military's plans for Iran, which allegedly called for the use of nuclear weapons against that country.

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[zezt]

NO solidiers ARE reponsible. I am not having that they can be 'let off' for war crimes. They didn't have to join up. They are old enough to say fukin no!

[nellieeeeee]

IMPEACH BUSH AND CHEANY NOW. DO IT NOW.

[badmofker]

I watched it, one of the most disturbing films i have ever watched.

[aerochick42]

read about stanley milgram's obedience experiments. you'll see just how people can commit horrible acts when they are commanded by someone in authority over them.

[ginganz13]

This is a fundamental constant through history, the arrogance of power - the simple inability to apply to themselves the same moral principles that they apply to others.

As Chomsky says - we are probably natures last experiment with intelligence.

[ginganz13]

The Geneva convention says they must disobey orders that are wrong - its part of their training

[ginganz13]

Sarky! :-)

[0neLess]

Cheney too!

[zezt]

so disobey orders. this is the whole point! You cannot just follow authority when you know it is wrong. You have to say NO!

[AndrogynyQueen]

true but they would be disobeying orders ....they can get in a lot of trouble for insubordination

[nellieeeeee]

Watch the video, Taxi to the dark side. Soldiers who tortured people reflect on what they did. The military make people into monsters. The Monsters in charge should be charged with the same crimes as the soldiers who carried out the crimes.