Military medics participating in torture

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Dr. Steven Miles is the author of "Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror.” He researched government documents to come to the conclusions in his book, where he clearly documents the multiple cases of medical complicity in torture.

On Tavis Smiley (PBS -- June 30th) he had this to say:

"This breaks my heart because, first off, I'm a doc, so these are my colleagues. When I look at the way that military medicine acted in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Gulf War I, I can't find anything that looks like this. This is a non-recognizable military medical system to me and it wasn't just Iraq. There are multiple prisons in Iraq, multiple prisons in Afghanistan and Guantanamo."

He goes on to say:

Because the problem is that the Congress allowed the president to suspend the Geneva Conventions and we allowed our Congress to suspend the Geneva Conventions. At some point, we have to assume a national responsibility as citizens for what our government does on our behalf. This is not a book about the rightness or wrongness of the war, but it is a book about what we as a society have tolerated. We built the Geneva Conventions to protect prisoners of war and we have stood by as those standards have been taken down.