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Condemn American Physicians Who Collaborated With the Bush Administration's Torture Policy


US Politics & Gov't  (tags: petition, usa, war, politics, lies, government, ethics, dishonesty, corruption, bushadministration, americans, abuse )

Daphna
- 21 days ago - change.org
Please sign this petition and urge your elected officials to pressure the medical profession in the United States to take a serious stand against the use of torture. Some American physicians without ethics were guilty of collaboration with t
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Tierney G. (300)
Monday November 2, 2009, 5:59 pm
Signed thanks Daphna
 

Marion Y. (285)
Monday November 2, 2009, 6:17 pm
Signed. TY Daphna!
 

Bruce Anderson (29)
Monday November 2, 2009, 7:53 pm
Signed, sealed and sent...

I'm a pretty astute student on the Bush/Cheney dirty lack of ethics team, but this escaped me.

With that said, it is egregious beyond belief that doctors no matter their political leanings would have participated in the Bush/Cheney program. Let's be sure that it never happens again.

Thank ya very much for the informative issue.
 

Tom M. (804)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 2:05 am
Signed, thanks Daphna
 

mary f. (73)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 4:18 am
done
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (250)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 7:18 am
Thannxxx... these doctors should be struck off the role for misconduct and abuse of their professional status... they are looked upon as care givers to a nation.. are are held in high esteem.. these doctors do not deserve this...
 

eileen k. (1)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 2:15 pm
There's an oath every physician takes upon graduation from medical school; it is the Hyppocratic Oath, and states that no harm be done. This principle is thousands of years old, dating back to the physician Hyppocrates in ancient Greece.

Those physicians who had collaborated in the Bush/Cheney Regime's blatent torture of detainees at Guantanamo and other such facilities have betrayed their profession through their serious violation of their Oath; thus, they deserve not only revocation of their licenses, but also prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
 

Casey Reed (36)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 6:35 pm
Evidence that we DO NOT LIVE IN A COUNTRY OF LAWS is that there has not been any formal investigation leading to charges and trials.
 

LLOYD H. (4)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 8:27 pm
There is in the 'Hyppocratic Oath' one particular line, "FIRST DO NO HARM." These 'doctors' aside from being oath breakers are criminals not only under International Laws but criminals under US Laws; but considering not only the medical profession in general but specificall the AMA's long history of protecting their own, but the present Administrations role as Chief Legal Defender of all the Bush/Cheney crimes and criminals, one can expect no real criminal investigations or prosecutions only more of the same degenerate,unethical,illegal activities in the future as there will be no proven deterent only the setting of legal precedent allowing for the US to actually commit the same kinds of crimes at home and internationally with impunity. Are Obama and the DOJ blind to the fact that failure to fully investigate and prosecute all of both Bush/Cheney Administration from the President down leaves every member of the American military, American tourist, American journalist, American businessman... subject to the same treatment and the American government/people will have no leagal or ethical standing to object to what ever treatment they recieve because "WE THE PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN A MORE PERFECT UNION HAVE LEGALIZED THE TORTURE, INDEFINATE DETENTION WITHOUT EVIDENCE, CHARGES OR TRIAL ANY ONE THAT ANY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DECLARES AN ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES OR THE SUPPORTER OF ONE." The single most telling statement on this whole issue was made by a North Korean diplomat when ask about the arrest and detention of the two women reporters he said, "We are not the United States." that put it rather pointedly when what we call one of the worst civil rights violating opressive Comunist Dictatorships in the world can claim legal and ethical superiority over the United States and be absolutely correct in doing so.
 

Opheeliya Fire-Kracker (22)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 9:04 pm
...bunk..........................pure n' simple..........................
 

Abdessalam Diab (33)
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 4:35 am
Signed. Thanks Daphna
 

Jamie Clemons (137)
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 10:09 am
They should not only be condemned they should lose their liscence to practice medicine and be prosecuted. A conservative talk show host here in chicago allowed himself to be waterboarded and he thought he was going to prove it wasn't torture. Well he only lasted a few seconds and then he said it was absolutely torture.
 
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