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Gourevitch and Morris: Standard Operating Procedure
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The Legal Secret of Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' Claim
04 min 34 secPhilip Gourevitch points out that George W. Bush’s "Mission Accomplished" speech on May 1, 2003 was much more than a political photo-op.
He believes it was a shrewd legal move which announced the end of war against a particular state in order to continue the war on terror which lies outside the Geneva Conventions.
Gourevitch says this speech "allowed us [Americans] to imprison without charge. . . an infinite number of Iraqi men." -
Errol Morris Explains Abu Ghraib Photo
04 min 49 secErrol Morris gives the little known back story to the notorious thumbs-up photograph of Sabrina Harman from Abu Ghraib prison.
In light of these surprising details, Morris contends that Harman was wrongly blamed for that atrocity, the perpetrators of which were never prosecuted. -
The Crime at Abu Ghraib Was Not Photography
05 min 42 secErrol Morris, Philip Gourevitch, and Carne Ross debate the true significance of the Abu Ghraib photos.
Gourevitch argues that the media confuses the taking of the photographs as a bigger crime than the abuses being portrayed in them; he says "the taking of the pictures is in no way the source of depravity." -
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