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Damien Corsetti - Military Interrogator: You put people into a crazy situation, people will do crazy things.
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Sgt. Ken Davis: People were told to rough up Iraqis that wouldn't cooperate. We were also told they're nothing but dogs. And all of a sudden you start looking at these people as less then human. And you start doing things to them you would never dream of. And that's were it got scary.
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Lawrence Wilkerson - US Army Colonel: You've always got people in the military who are just this side of the Marquis de Sade.
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Damien Corsetti - Military Interrogator: The brass knew. They saw'em shackled, they saw'em hooded, and they said, "Right on! You're doing a great job."
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Scott Horton - President of the International League for Human Rights: It's very clear that it starts in the office of Vice President Cheney. He had a very strong view that we were not as aggressive and dealing with people in interrogation as we could or should be.
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George W. Bush: More than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Lets put it this way: They're no longer a problem to the Unites States or our friends and allies.
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Dick Cheney: It is a mean, nasty, dangerous, dirty business out there, and we have to operate in that arena...
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Himself - Military Intelligence: Americans obviously want to believe that we're somehow more moral than the rest of the world, that for some reason, we have a real strong desire to feel that way, and I think that's eroding, and I don't really know what effect that's gonna have on us. And I think a lot of people have just decided, "Well, you know, it's different after 9/11, we can't be good anymore. We have to, you know, get tough." And so we'll have to see what that does to us.
Narrator: What do you think?
Himself - Military Intelligence: I think that's bullshit, frankly. I mean, I think that we still need to try and be as good as we can be. You know?
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