U.S. Navy nurse won't force-feed Guantanamo detainees

[IDemo]

Source: CNN

9:35 PM EDT, Tue July 15, 2014

Attorneys for a Guantanamo Bay detainee on a hunger strike say a U.S. military nurse has refused to conduct forced feedings of inmates.

Abu Wa'el Dhiab has been at the U.S. Navy base on Cuba since August 2002, attorney Cori Crider told CNN.

Crider says Dhiab told her in a telephone call last week about the reported actions of the unnamed male nurse, believed to be a Navy medical officer.

"Initially, he did carry out his orders and participate in the tube feedings. But when he came, as soon as he saw what was happening, he started talking to the brothers," meaning the inmates, Dhiab was quoted as saying. "He explained to us: 'Before we came here, we were told a different story. The story we were told was completely the opposite of what I saw.' Once he saw with his own eyes that what he was told was contrary to what was actually taking place here, he decided he could not do it anymore."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/15/world/americas/guantanamo-forced-feedings-nurse-refuses/index.html#disqus_thread

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[burrowowl]

2. Good on her!

[Geoff R. Casavant]

3. Him. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

4. We can be sure they will make him suffer for choosing his conscience over their orders.

Hope support will come to him from somewhere to let him know he is highly cherished and respected for his courage in refusing to harm others when they are down, and helpless.

[ReRe]

8. I have a feeling he will...

... spill the beans in a tell-all as soon as his current "tour" is up.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

9. Why is tour in quotes?

He is active duty. He is on tour.

And if he does write a tell all book or even write and post his story on the internet, what does it matter, other then spreading the word of what a stinking cesspool this country and Bush created? That is a good thing...right?

Sorry, I am not understanding if your post was meant as support of this person making a conscious decision not to participate in torture or sarcasm.

[ReRe]

10. Aw... you're just looking for something that's not there...

... the word "tour" sounds like a good thing. Like a person going on a peaceful informative travel excursion. I have always resented the military's use of that word. It's part of the lie.

I didn't use the "tell-all" term in a derogatory way. Of course I support that nurse! So many stories will be told when they close that God-forsaken gulag down once and for all. I'm just impatient, that's all. The American people need to know what was perpetrated in their name and pass some laws so that it will never happen again!

Hope this explains.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

11. Thanks for the civil response!

I get it now! My brain did not make the connection with the use of the word "tour". We agree on this!

Peace, ReRe.

[ReRe]

12. You betcha. :-)

[SheilaT]

5. It's about time someone has

refused to do this. I'm genuinely appalled that doctors and nurses didn't object and refuse to participate from the very beginning. I guess the Hippocratic Oath, "First do no harm" has no meaning whatsoever any more.

[delrem]

6. k & r

A beautiful example for us all.

[Dan]

7. I have always wondered

if the military/civilian personnel who participate in this 'whatever it is' at some point in the future will be subject to international law.

[Brigid]

13. The article does not make clear if this is actually an RN or s corpsman

I gather they are not sure. If he's an RN, he's an officer; and I suppose he can resign his commission. If he is a corpsman, he is an enlisted man and would have to wait until his enlistment is up if he wants to leave.