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To: Brumar89 who wrote (172935)	7/8/2006 3:14:51 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793719

Why pretend like you give a flip? All you want to do is beat me down because you hate what I am saying. If you want to learn, learn. The information is available if you want it. But if you want to practice denial, and anger, I don't care to engage you on that level.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (172935)	7/8/2006 3:19:20 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793719

Oh, here, since your arms seem to be unable to use a mouse, I'll actually click on one of the links I already gave you: >>Of the 136 documented deaths of prisoners in detention, Miles found, medical death certificates were often not issued until months or even years after the actual deaths. One prisoner's corpse at Camp Cropper was kept for two weeks before his family or criminal investigators were notified. The body was then left at a local hospital with a certificate attributing death to "sudden brainstem compression." The hospital's own autopsy found that the man had died of a massive blow to the head. Another certificate claimed a 63-year-old prisoner had died of "cardiovascular disease and a buildup of fluid around his heart." According to Miles, no mention was made that the old man had been stripped naked, doused in cold water and kept outside in 40° cold for three days before cardiac arrest. Other doctors just looked the other way, their military duty overruling the Hippocratic Oath. One at Abu Ghraib intervened to ask guards to stop beating one prisoner's wounded leg and quit hanging him from an injured shoulder. He saw it happen three times. He never reported it. In Mosul, according to Miles, one medic witnessed guards beating a prisoner and burning him by dragging him over hot stones. The prisoner was taken to the hospital, treated and then returned by doctors to his torturers. An investigation into the incidentwas closed because the medic didn't sign the medical record and so he couldn't be identified. After a while, you get numb reading these stories. They read like accounts of a South American dictatorship, not an American presidency. But we learn one thing: once you allow the torture of prisoners for any reason, as this President did, the cancer spreads. In the end it spreads to healers as well, and turns them into accomplices to harm.<<