Reed Brody Transcript Now Posted
The Echo Chamber documentary interview with Reed Brody is now posted online here.
Brody is a lawyer with Human Rights Watch and has an interesting take on the human rights justification that is not heard very often within the mainstream media discourse.
I based this interview upon an article called "War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention" written by HRW's executive director Ken Roth. It was released on January 26th 2004 with little fanfare.
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"If you're going to upset the rules of international law, and go in -- invade a country without United Nations authorization in apparent violation of the traditional rules because you say, 'There's a humanitarian emergency. We've got to get in there.' Then you do it when the humanitarian emergency is real. You don't do it because a country is engaged in a lot of torture -- as bad -- as condemnable as that may be. You do it when you're actually going in to save tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of lives."
