Detainee Abuse Also Left Taint On Health (Extreme Barf Alert!!!)

IBD Editorials ^ | September 4, 2009 | Left wing lunatic EUGENE ROBINSON

[Kaslin]

Torture is a delicate business. The aim is to injure but not incapacitate — to inflict precisely enough pain and terror to break a subject's will, but no more.

To calibrate the proper degree of abuse, the torturer must have an accurate sense of how much agony the subject's mind and body can tolerate.

In the Bush administration's program of "enhanced interrogation," this expertise was provided by doctors and psychologists — professionals who are supposed to heal and comfort.

A new report by Physicians for Human Rights assembles the evidence and reaches a sickening but inescapable conclusion: "Health professionals played central roles in developing, implementing and providing justification for torture."

Dwell on that for a moment, especially if you believe the Bush administration's decision to submit terrorism suspects to medieval interrogation practices was somehow justifiable — or even if you believe that torture was wrong but that now we should "look forward" and pretend it never happened.

This is how torture warps a society and distorts its values.

Much of the information cited by Physicians for Human Rights had previously been unearthed, but some new details were disclosed in the CIA inspector general's report released last week — revealing "a level of ethical misconduct that had not previously come to light," according to the human rights group.

From sources that include published reports, an inquiry by the International Committee of the Red Cross and various documents pried out of the government by organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, here is some of what we know:

The interrogation program — using 11 abusive "enhanced" techniques, including waterboarding — was designed by two Ph.D. psychologists.

[Kaslin]

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"this expertise was provided by doctors and psychologists — professionals who are supposed to heal and comfort"

They're "supposed" to respect the sanctity of life, too.

But some don't, right Dr. Ezekiel?

[muawiyah]

This is so ignorant ~ none of this was really torture. In America torture necessarily includes peeling off strips of skin, roasting over a fire, and being cut down to eat lunch while listening to speeches.

This business about just bumping people, or eliciting the fetal anti-drowning reflex is intended to mislead the naive.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Dwell on that for a moment, especially if you believe the Bush administration's decision to submit terrorism suspects to medieval interrogation practices was somehow justifiable — or even if you believe that torture was wrong but that now we should "look forward" and pretend it never happened."

These clueless idiots remind me of the twerp interpreter in the movie Saving Private Ryan who insisted they let a prisoner go, then later cowered in fear as the same guy killed his fellow Americans.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"In America torture necessarily includes peeling off strips of skin, roasting over a fire, and being cut down to eat lunch while listening to speeches."

In America torture is having to endure listening to the ubiquitous Dear Leader day in and day out tell lies about what he's up.

[muawiyah]

He’s getting ready to start the fire ~ and then it’ll be just one thing after another.