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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 12:48 PM
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Why is the Bush Administration Using Doctors for Torture?

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=700005


New reports in the New England Journal of Medicine and the New Yorker find startling evidence that U.S. military physicians, psychologists and psychiatrists have been used to capitalize on the medical problems of prisoners in interrogations despite explicit prohibitions against such actions. This development continues a dark and disturbing trend of Bush administration behavior contributing to direct violations of long standing human rights laws and protocols.

* Doctors are expressly forbidden from participating in torture or the abuse of medical information for interrogations.

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# Despite these prohibitions, the Bush administration has used doctors to turn the medical problems of detainees into openings for information.

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* Any participation of doctors in torture or abuse must be stopped immediately and anyone responsible for these abuses must be held accountable. The Bush administration and the Pentagon must put an immediate end to any use of medical information for torture or abuse and bring anyone responsible for ordering, allowing, or participating in such actions to justice. The credibility and authority of the entire United States is on the line and the president must stand strong against this deplorable behavior.

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deplorable is too meek a word to be used

try criminal
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 12:50 PM
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1. Because some right wingers will do anything for their fuhrer
Oops, did I make a Hitler reference? My bad!
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 12:52 PM
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2. LOL
I almost replied "because Hitler/Nazis did too" but I thought it wouldn't go over well. Good thing I didn't say it, huh. ;-)
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 12:57 PM
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5. Better safe than sorry!
Btw, I'm so sorry. :+
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 01:55 PM
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8. About as much as I am for drawing the same comparisions
LOL
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 12:54 PM
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3. Just imitating their role models from Nazi Germany
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 12:55 PM
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4. the nazi`s did the same thing
during the 30`s. little has changed in the perverse world of the bush family and their relatives
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 01:06 PM
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6. Because doctors
Can tell if someone is really suffering..and not having internal organ failure..VS dying.

Because the"expertise" of doctors can make a statement to stupid expert trusting people..."See we got medical personnel there to make sure the torturers don't break the law (the law they already disregarded)and to in effect say we bind the broken arm before we break their other arm as they break these poor peoples bodies and minds.And a doctor can tell how much of a dose of a torture drug is too much for the body to be revived again.That sorta shit.
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Mr Rabble Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 01:12 PM
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7. Exactly right. N/T
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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 02:13 PM
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9. To keep them alive so they can torture them some more nt
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