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There are no words. Only rage and sorrow.

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wcg, Medics performed 'interrogation research'.

Medical personnel on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) participated in experimentation and research on detainees during interrogations following the US terror attacks of 11 September 2001 according to an independent report released today. The actions documented in the report took place during the administration of President George W. Bush and contravene principles of research ethics set out in the Nuremburg Code, including those explicitly stated by the US government.

If you're going to even attempt to defend this to me? Don't. Just don't.

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how could anyone defend that?

I wish I could say "how could anyone do that?"

*rage and sorrow with you*

DO WHAT?!

This isn't the kind of thing one should brag about, but... I do have a certain sick satisfaction in realizing that I was right about something.

I just knew that we'd learn someday that the Bushies used saline in waterboarding. It was just so *Bush*, you know? "See, evoking a fear of imminent death isn't so bad[1]! We even used saline!"

[1] Note that even if waterboarding wasn't known to be torture, mock execution is also accepted as torture.

The thing that bothers me is, one justification for torture was that we were not as bad as the terrorists.

"Not as bad" somehow became equivalent to "good."

Ah, fahgeddaboudit. He was simply doing exactly what we're all meant to do - proper application of the skills we learned in college.

I'm just sickened that people in the medical and health care fields were involved with this on such an intimate level. Reading about the things my government is doing, ostensibly IN MY NAME, makes me want to throw up.

If you have not already, you should let your representative and senators know you don't approve of this.

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