EXCERPT:
HASAN: "It's time now for what I'm calling the '60-Second Rant.' Start the clock. Republicans and some Democrats lined up to slam Ilhan Omar this week because they say she equated the U.S. and Israel with the Taliban and Hamas. She didn't. She pointed out that the International Criminal Court is right to investigate potential war crimes by all of those parties. And look, Americans get very upset when our nation is accused of war crimes, but I’m sorry to break this to you, our nation has done some pretty awful things abroad and we have to be able to talk about them. Take the Korean War. Does the No Gun Ri massacre in 1950, in which U.S. Forces were accused of deliberately firing on and killing hundreds of refugees, including kids, not count as a war crime? How about the bombing of civilians in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Mỹ Lai massacre? What about Iraq? Was that even graver than a war crime? Didn't we see with our own eyes the images of those tortured Iraqi prisoners? In my view, we don’t prosecute enough war criminals in this country. And some of those who have been prosecuted were just pardoned by the last president and they're walking free. Look, this isn't about saying that the United States is as bad as the Taliban. Of course it isn't. It’s about saying war crimes should be condemned and prosecuted regardless of who commits them. I mean, it's bad enough that we have conservatives today who don't want the crimes that were committed against black and Native Americans taught in our schools, but to have liberals say that our crimes abroad should also be censored and that those who raise them like Omar are apologists for terrorist groups? That is outrageous and that is unforgivable."