277 - Winter Soldiers (From My Lai to Abu Ghraib and Falluja)

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Episode #277 - Winter Soldiers (From My Lai to Abu Ghraib and Falluja)

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⌚ Sun 23 October 2005  ☻Many American war veterans

Download Hour1 Download Hour2This week we look into US War Crimes. We hear a portion of the 1972 film, Winter Soldier followed by a New York panel of war veterans who spoke about their experiences following the film showing.

Abu Ghraib has been portrayed, as the My Lai massacre was, as the product of a few 'bad apples', who broke the rules. In fact, in war, atrocities are routine, and the people who commit them are mostly normal people who would never have dreamed of committing such acts before their military service.
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