BUSH: Adding Insult to Injury of Waterboarding


	BUSH: Adding Insult to Injury of Waterboarding

righthand

2-15-2008 1:20 PM

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bush, wayerboarding, torture

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William Hopkins is a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist who has worked at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture since 2001. He has actively campaigned against the use of force-feeding in Guantánamo Bay and has spoken extensively about both the psychological effects of torture and therapeutic work with survivors.

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2-15-2008 7:36 PM

kkcapricorn

Good for him!

2-16-2008 5:33 PM

kenjt

bush is a hypocrite in the worse sense of the word

2-18-2008 6:51 AM

BartendingBear

Bush is a war criminal.

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<H1>Adding insult to injury</H1>
<P class="standfirst">George Bush's repeated claim that he promotes human rights is inconsistent with his justification of the use of torture</p> </DIV>
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<H2><A href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/profile.html">William Hopkins</A></H2></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/2008/02/adding_insult_to_injury.html">Let us be clear: <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/14/terrorism.usa">waterboarding is torture</A>. There is <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/15/terrorism.usa1">no argument</A> to be made that can alter that fact</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/2008/02/adding_insult_to_injury.html">It is a terrifying ordeal</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/2008/02/adding_insult_to_injury.html">A person is strapped to a board, often upside down, with their mouth gagged by a cloth. Gallons of water are then poured over their face</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/2008/02/adding_insult_to_injury.html">The victim's fear of drowning links with their most primal instinct for survival with the immediate response of panic as the human reflexes struggle against an inability to breathe</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/2008/02/adding_insult_to_injury.html">The instinct is to try to escape while at the same time being crushed by the sense that it is futile to try to do so</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/2008/02/adding_insult_to_injury.html">
Is this how we defend human rights? Is this behaviour consonant with a government that says it believes in human dignity?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/2008/02/adding_insult_to_injury.html">working with those who do manage to survive, I have no doubt whatsoever that waterboarding is torture in the extreme</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/profile.html" href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/profile.html" style="font-size: 11px;">commentisfree.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_hopkins/profile.html">consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7C170267-C9E9-468B-94B6-B439A9890124/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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