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would not be extradited to the United States if he left there to get dental care. I'm not aware that
he's gotten the care that he needs, even now that he's in British custody, all this time. So he is
being tortured for that. What Alice reminded me of here is, of course, the video of the killings
during the first release, which had the title he put on, which was very problematic in many
people's eyes. He was questioned for it and that was Collateral Murder. And as someone, I was
a battalion training officer in the Marine Corps and taught the laws of war not very long, but
briefly and long enough to know that what I was seeing on that video when I first saw it, was
murder. It was the deliberate shooting down of unarmed civilians. It turned out one of them, a
Reuters journalist and his photographer, both killed, hunted down actually, they tried to shield
themselves while they were laughing in the helicopter at this turkey shoot. And the people who
tried to help them were actually told to go mind their business by their superior officers, actually,
people on the ground. This was murder. It was like the Rodney King shooting, which I can't
remember, which had an enormous effect on video, or, of course, recently the George Floyd
murder, which we just saw on television.
It didn't have that same effect because it was Americans killing foreigners. And as many people,
including the people who tried to rescue the people on the ground, pointed out this was a daily
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