From the Journal of BioEthics comes a clinical assessment of Prisoner 063 at Guantanamo Bay. I don’t know who I feel worse for: him, or us. This is what the Republicans have brought us to
Intravenous fluids were regular administered over the prisoner’s objection....The next day, interrogators told the prisoner that he would not be allowed to pray if he would not drink water. Neither a medic nor a physician could insert a standard intravenous catheter, so a physician inserted a "temporary shunt" to allow an intravenous infusion. The restrained prisoner asked to go the bathroom and was given a urinal instead. Thirty minutes later, he was given "three and one-half bags of IV [sic]" and he urinated twice in his pants. The next day, the physician came to the interrogation room and checked the restrained prisoner’s swollen extremities and the shunt. The shunt was removed and a soldier told al-Qahtani that he could pray on the floor where he had urinated.
Read the description below, and see what your government is doing to people. Without representation. Without any concern for consequences. This is pure evil. Pure mendacity. This accomplishes nothing. This is who we are now. A country that detains and tortures people. There are those who have us believe that this is helping us in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or that the people we are torturing are all guilty. This does nothing but destroy America. Every single incident will come back to haunt us. To remind the world what we lost with this administration.
This is more than morally unacceptable. This is un-American to the core.
The prisoner was forced to wear photographs of "sexy females" and to study sets of such photographs to identify whether various pictures of bikini-clad women were of the same or a different person. He was told that his mother and sister were whores. He was forced to wear a bra, and a woman’s thong was put on his head. He was dressed as a woman and compelled to dance with a male interrogator. He was told that he had homosexual tendencies and that other prisoners knew this. Although continuously monitored, interrogators repeatedly strip-searched him as a "control measure." On at least one occasion, he was forced to stand naked with women soldiers present. Female interrogators seductively touched the prisoner under the authorized use of approaches called "Invasion of Personal Space" and "Futility." On one occasion, a female interrogator straddled the prisoner as he was held down on the floor.
Other degrading techniques were logged. His head and beard were shaved to show the dominance of the interrogators. He was made to stand for the United States national anthem. His situation was compared unfavorably to that of banana rats in the camp. He was leashed (a detail omitted in the log but recorded by investigators) and made to "stay, come, and bark to elevate his social status up to a dog." He was told to bark like a happy dog at photographs of 9/11 victims and growl at pictures of terrorists. Some psychological routines referred to the 9/11 attacks. He was shown pictures of the attacks, and photographs of victims were affixed to his body. The interrogators held one exorcism (and threatened another) to purge evil Jinns that the disoriented, sleep deprived prisoner claimed were controlling his emotions. The interrogators quizzed him on passages from a book entitled, "What makes a Terrorist and Why?," that asserted that people joined terrorist groups for a sense of belonging and that terrorists must dehumanize their victims as a way to avoid feelings of guilt at their crimes.
This is why we have to get rid of these asshats. This right here. This is why. Because we can never claim the moral high ground ever again on this issue. We have been soiled. Sullied. Dirtied in every way imaginable by this horrendous crime of torture. This is what became of the United States of America. This is the wound that needs to be cauterized.
And what do these e-mail hiding, court packing liars think is going to happen down the road. Does Dick Cheney think he will ever have a good nights sleep for the rest of his life? Does W? Does Gonzalez? Torture is a crime. And the bill will come due one day.
Link here http://www.bioethics.net/...