Doctors call for end to force-feeding at Guantanamo (Barf... if you can)

KVOA TV Tucson ^ | 3/10/06

[ChuckShick]

Here's the letter (from Amnesty International... who else): http://www.amnesty.org.uk/images/ul/l/lancet_letter_2.pdf

And here's the list of doctors: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/images/ul/l/lancet_letter_appendix_2.pdf

Only a handful of US doctors are on the list, mostly from Harvard.

These doctors want them to die so they can heap bad press on the US about Gitmo.

[thoughtomator]

Let's just show them Brokeback Mountain on an infinite loop instead.

[theDentist]

Sure, let them die so the same Doctors can call their incarceration and deaths of starvation atrocious, that we are starving them to death. Nope. feed them. I hear pork has a high protein content.

[freedomson]

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[Thebaddog]

Are these the same doctors that are advising young girls not to drink to excess on spring break?

[mother22wife21]

Did you notice oliver sacks name?

[Anti-Bubba182]

" If they don't want to eat, don't force them."

Hell, that is a good idea. If they want to starve letem!

[CindyDawg]

Our reasons are not the same but in this instance I agree.

[TXBSAFH]

They will eat when they are hungry enough. And when they do put only pork in front of them.

[Numbers Guy]

263 doctors ask the American Medical Association to pressure U-S military physicians to stop taking part in the force-feeding

Let's just drop these Al Qaeda members from airplanes flying at 1000 feet, so they can spend the final few seconds of the life understanding how the people who jumped from the World Trade Center felt.

[kevkrom]

One of the doctors who signed the letter to the British journal, The Lancet, says doctors who force-feed prisoners are "acting as an arm of the military." He says they're violating their "medical-ethical duties."

Yes, how dare they keep their patients alive! Don't these doctors know that modern medical practice is all about how to kill patients "humanely" and effectively?

[eeevil conservative]

I hear starving to death is euphoric....

[ChinaThreat]

Why don't we end the whole issue with a simple shot to the head and help them out. Or let them try to swim home.

[Wasanother]

If they died then they won't get their chance to appeal their detention to some Federal Judge. What a bunch of dumba*ses!

[JimRed]

If they won't eat, let 'em starve to death, with full video documentation of their refusal to eat. It's called CHOICE!

[Little Ray]

I support an end to force feeding them, too... Let 'em starve.

[dinasour]

says doctors who force-feed prisoners are "acting as an arm of the military."

Dang, imagine that. Military doctors acting as an arm of the military.

What is the world coming to.

[acsrp38]

Of course they are an "arm of the military" -- they are military doctors

[Anti-Bubba182]

I'd rather see if they have the sand to starve themselves to death.

[mother22wife21]

Hey eeevil!

We do hear that sentiment bandied about quite a lot don't we? Wonder if they are too weak to buck dance? (remember Mae)