We're not the press. We're just the AP

Seriously? Force-feeding detainees is unethical, eh? And I assume we'd be just fine with them dying? (I would be, but the press won't miss an opportunity to bitch about the government.)

Asked if force-feeding was being carried out to prevent negative publicity likely to accompany any death of a hunger striker, Martin said the U.S. does not "let enemy combatants die on the battlefield."

Wait.. let me amend that a bit.

Asked if force-feeding was being carried out to prevent negative publicity that we would greatly encourage to accompany any death of a hunger striker, Martin said the U.S. does not "let enemy combatants die on the battlefield."

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 3/11/2006 06:12:00 PM #
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The Turks let you die, if you go on a hunger strike in one of their prisons. (An interesting less on for people who forgot what "like a Turkish prison" used to mean.)

# posted by  Anonymous : 8:44 PM, March 12, 2006

 

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