Reply #32: No. You've completely mischaracterized my comment.

[Eye and Monkey]

As a matter of fact, in a post above, I point out that I have actually seen such situations firsthand.

Elaborating, I have personally been in situations in which I had to directly react to the FACT that MDs had been forced to perform such surgeries, by a number of regimes in other countries. As I said above, I cannot attest to the situation in Iraq. However, based on personal, direct experience, I can attest that it is more frequent than most unexposed westerners would imagine.

In the post directly above, I am pointing out that there are American military MDs associated with the imprisonment of some 600 Guanatanamo inmates who have not been tried, much less convicted. Of what I have read and the photos that I have seen, the conditions of their transport and imprisonment constitute a type of torture, irrespective of any interrogation techniques that might be used.

Further, I think that I am alluding to my belief that the current US administration is guilty of numerous and flagrant human rights abuses.

It would do you well should you notice that the US has resisted efforts for the International Red Cross and other recognized organizations to evaluate the conditions of the prisoners at Guanatanamo. Again, I have been personally involved in Red Cross visits to prisons in many areas of the world, including prisons in which military prisoners were held. A number of the most notorious regimes in recent history have permitted the Red Cross relatively frequent and impromptu access to prisons, while the current US administration does not.

No offense intended, you so entirely mischaracterized my posts that perhaps you might change your moniker to "Free Association" or "Thinking on Auto-pilot".