By american forces, the record hasnt always been that good. My guest today flew into the middle of the My Lai Massacre in vietnam in 1968 and stopped the wholesale slaughter of vietnamese civilians. It was more than 30 years before anybody even bothered to say thank you. Has the us military now learned the lessons it should have done from vietnam . Hugh thompson, a very warm welcome to the programme. Thank you very much. When you hear allegations of brutality by us troops in iraq, failure to respect the Geneva Conventions, what goes through your mind . Bad leadership. The past and my situation goes through it and wondering, has nothing been learned . How Something Like this could happen in the present that seems to have happened. I dont know to what degree because i dont have the facts, but it shouldnt have happened. In 1991, commanders were told when they went for desert storm, no my lais. Thats what i heard general schwartzkopfs Marching Orders were to his officers. That made me feel
thank you for joining us. we ll start with the brutal meetimee beating of protesters in cairo fueling the fury in egypt. the violence means all bets are off for egypt s political future. we spoke yesterday, mohammed. this video and the fact that people are it s being caught on tape, it s really fueling what s going on there? well, since we spoke, don, the clashes have still been on going between the protesters and the police and the army. today the video we acquired the video of the woman that was beaten severely and stripped of a substantial amount of her clothes, i spoke to the man who filmed the video, and he was very devastated because when he was filming he saw how brutal the army was. they were beating elderly, children, and the girl herself was extremely beaten. just now i spoke to a friend of hers, and she told me that the girl does not want to speak to the media. she s worried that the situation might be escalated. her parents still don t even know what happene