More Navy medics arrive at Guantánamo to help out on forced feedings

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

More Navy medics arrive at Guantánamo to help out on forced feedings
Posted on Monday, 04.29.13

By CAROL ROSENBERG

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About 40 additional U.S. Navy medical forces have arrived at the prison camps at Guantánamo to assist in the growing hunger strike by 100 captives, more then a fifth of them being force-fed, a spokesman said Monday.

The “corpsmen, nurses, and other specialists” arrived over the weekend “as part of a contingency during the ongoing hunger strike,” Army Lt. Col. Samuel House said in a statement.

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House issued the statement just before noon Monday, saying “currently only a handful of detainees are being tube-fed.” He sought to distinguish between those designated for forced-feedings and those actually strapped to a feeding chair to have a tube snaked up the nose and into the stomach to pump in a can of Ensure or a similar nutritional supplement up to twice daily.

Captives are moved in shackles from their cell to a separate forced-feeding site, House said in a statement where “most of the detainees who are approved for tube feeding will eat or drink without the peer pressure from inside the cell block.”

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[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Here's the chair:

If that doesn't increase your appetite, what will?

[blkmusclmachine]

11. -1

[newfie11]

2. So many are cleared to leave

But years later they are still there AND being tortured again. They can't even get out by starving themselves.

[sikofit3]

17. This is disgusting

and it is heartbreaking that we are now openly torturing people with medics who are supposed to save people and give them life, not to keep them alive so their lives can be tortured some more. This is one reason why I would not vote for Obama again. I know its not completely up to him but he doesn't even discuss it. This should be a topic of discussion on msm.

[G_j]

18. isn't that some sort of crime?

there has to be something in that quaint Geneva Convention about this.

[newfie11]

20. Maybe but who would stand up to America?

Sad and disgusting for sure.

[blackspade]

3. What a fucking disgrace.

Charge them and try them or cut them loose.

[peacebird]

10. Exactly. Charge them or cut them loose.

[blkmusclmachine]

12. +1

[City Lights]

19. Exactly! nt

[annabanana]

4. The AMA is objecting

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/29/us-usa-guantanamo-idUSBRE93S0VD20130429

[derby378]

5. Good for them

The Guantanamo prison is a stain on America's honor. Wasn't it supposed to be shut down or something?

[In_The_Wind]

6. Good

[Judi Lynn]

7. Surprised by now to hear from them, but it's a really good idea!

We know so well how the medical profession looked after _{George W. Bush} used psychiatrists to study tortured prisoners to determine how much more torture they could take, and other doctors to examine waterboarded prisoners to see if they were O.K. to go again after waterboarding might have gotten a little wild and hairy.

Doctors were being asked to assist the degredation and destruction of the minds and spirits of these helpless people. Made everyone connected look evil.

Concerning the forced feedings, the information started seeping out during the _Bush presidency that the prison guards who assisted in the feeding operations were actually ripping them out of fasting prisoners, then jamming them into the next prisoners WITHOUT STERILIZATION first. Witnesses to these actions were horrified.

It still doesn't seem possible, after all these years.

Apparently their reasoning was that if they made it uncomfortable enough, the prisoners would stop fasting, then Guantanamo personel wouldn't be blamed for their deaths by starvation.

[rhett o rick]

8. I guess the current admin doesnt think this qualifies as torture.

Our country should be ashamed.

[siligut]

14. Hospital patients have it done too

It is a very uncomfortable procedure, your body resists it by gagging and tearing up.

[KatyMan]

21. Hospital patients are not forced. NT

[siligut]

22. Sometimes they are coerced

And if the feeding is for a patient who has become resistant to treatment, it can be a little bit forced. But I agree, these are totally different circumstances.

[pscot]

9. Cruel and Inhuman doesn't cover it

You can't even see the moral high ground from here. What kind of monsters have we become?

[blkmusclmachine]

13. Beatings will continue, until morale improves.

[siligut]

15. Taking away all personal power

Have to wonder if it is really more of an experiment regarding human will.

[pscot]

23. Stanley Milgram's guide

to public policy management.

[truthisfreedom]

16. Tasty!

[Solly Mack]

24. K&R

[RILib]

25. suffragettes

The British used to do this to suffragettes. One died of a heart problem as a result. Not to mention the violation and the possibility of getting food into the lungs causing permanent damage or death.

This whole thing is disgusting and a disgrace to the U.S. and Obama.

[RILib]

26. Forty Dr. Mengeles

any actual medical person ought to have at the least their license revoked.

[snappyturtle]

27. And we wonder why people around the world hate us.

To me this action to force feed only feeds one effort.... Maybe
we'll be seeing more pressure cooker bombs, etc.