Do you recognise this statement.

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing.

A doctor would because it it part of the Hippocratic Oath that each doctor takes.

I wrote some time ago on the conflict that exists for US military medical practitioners between their duties as military personnel and their responsibilities as doctors under the Hippocratic Oath.

Sadly and predictably The New England Journal of Medicine reports

There is increasing evidence that U.S. doctors, nurses, and medics have been complicit in torture and other illegal procedures in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. Such medical complicity suggests still another disturbing dimension of this broadening scandal.

We know that medical personnel have failed to report to higher authorities wounds that were clearly caused by torture and that they have neglected to take steps to interrupt this torture. In addition, they have turned over prisoners' medical records to interrogators who could use them to exploit the prisoners' weaknesses or vulnerabilities.

How low has the US military sunk, this sort of behaviour is terrorism. It is no wonder that the US is loosing the "War On Terror" when they are one of its enthusiastic exponents.

The Green Man encourages you to visit The New England Journal of Medicine and read the depressing facts for yourself. He prefers to try and maintain the illusion that we are actually the good guys without too many of the facts to cloud that view.