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Broken oath at Guantanamo The Virginian-Pilot June 29, 2005 Doctors are supposed to heal and comfort. They take an oath to diagnose illnesses and offer remedies, a precept that covers human minds as surely as it covers bodies. That presumption is so strong that even in the most violent places, medical professionals are usually protected by nothing more than a dedication to healing and a big red cross. When doctors go wrong, when they injure rather than protect, they are the stuff of legend and nightmare. As it is becoming clear, such people may be working today at the American detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Thats where the United States is keeping prisoners from Afghanistan and Iraq, incommunicado, without charges, without representation, in a swirl of rumors and credible reports of abuse, and yes torture. According to reports in The New England Journal of Medicine and The New York Times, military doctors there have been helping with the Guantanamo interrogations. They have been dipping into the prisoners medical files, and using what they find there to help interrogators break prisoners. Doctors are quite simply forbidden from doing such things. The Pentagon, faced with the impending release of reports in The Journal and The Times, promulgated new regulations that bar doctors from participating in unethical behavior. But since the Pentagon defines the interrogations at Guantanamo as lawful despite accusations from FBI agents, among others, that torture is part of the repertoire there the new guidelines say doctors can participate without running afoul of their professional ethics. Since that logical contortion is so circular that nobody is buying it, the Pentagon is also seeking to justify the doctors behavior by splitting hairs. Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman, according to The Times suggested that the doctors advising interrogators were not covered by ethics strictures because they were not acting as caregivers to patients but rather as behavioral scientists. Doctors could be acting as chauffeurs or cooks, but that doesnt absolve them of a duty to heal. When they do the opposite, when they employ their medical gifts to foster harm, when they use their talents to find weakness, they are nothing less than monsters, no matter what oath theyve taken. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ <A HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
