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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

What goes on at Guantanamo....

There's a pretty good article in the NYTimes in which
Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, head of the United States Southern Command, said soldiers at Guantánamo began strapping some of the detainees into "restraint chairs" to force-feed them and isolate them from one another after finding that some were deliberately vomiting or siphoning out the liquid they had been fed. ....

But what got me was this. After a lengthy discussion of how the new more aggressive force feeding techniques were causing pain, bleeding, and vomiting as the feeding tubes were repeatedly and forcefully run through the nasal passage,

General Craddock suggested that the medical staff had indulged the hunger strikers to the point that they had been allowed to choose the color of their feeding tubes.

A man strapped to a chair, arms restrained, head strapped back saying, "no. no. not again, no more."

And then somebody tells him he gets to choose the color of the tube. Now, that's indulgence.

2 Comments:

  • Wowo, next there will be designer feeding tubes. I'll take the Anna Sui please.

    By Blogger Yukkione, at 3:00 PM  

  • Something about that just disgusted me. It seemed so perversely cruel. Strapped in a chair dreading the pain that's coming and then being asked, what color pain would you like.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 3:52 PM  

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