First of all an Amer­i­can mil­i­tary doc­tor call fel­low health pro­fes­sion­als to keep the oath they took on them­selves and oppose torture.

I urge my fel­low health pro­fes­sion­als to join me and many oth­ers in reaf­firm­ing our eth­i­cal com­mit­ment to pre­vent tor­ture; to clearly state that sys­tem­atic tor­ture, sanc­tioned by the gov­ern­ment and aided and abet­ted by our own pro­fes­sion, is not accept­able. As health pro­fes­sion­als, we should sup­port the grow­ing calls for an inde­pen­dent, bipar­ti­san com­mis­sion to inves­ti­gate tor­ture in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guan­tanamo Bay and else­where, and demand restora­tion of eth­i­cal stan­dards that pro­tect physi­cians, nurses, medics and psy­chol­o­gists from becom­ing facil­i­ta­tors of abuse.

Amer­ica can­not con­tinue down this road. Tor­ture demon­strates weak­ness, not strength. It does not show under­stand­ing, power or mag­na­nim­ity. It is not lead­er­ship. It is a reac­tion of gov­ern­ment offi­cials over­whelmed by fear who suc­cumb to con­duct unwor­thy of them and of the cit­i­zens of the United States.

The Stain of Torture

Even Iraqi police are still using the same meth­ods of Sad­dam, it it’s con­firmed by the US military.

Major Gen­eral David Rodriguez, the com­man­der of U.S. and coali­tion forces in the area around Mosul, says that in the “last six to eight weeks” there have been approx­i­mately “40 or so” cases of abuse.

Senior U.S. Mil­i­tary offi­cial con­firms detainee abuse by Iraqi secu­rity forces

And the British are “con­cerned” about it

A British For­eign Office spokesman said the reports were serious.

“We are aware and deeply con­cerned by reports of detainee abuse by Iraqi police offi­cers and of men in police uni­forms com­mit­ting seri­ous crimes, whether these men are gen­uine police­men or not,”

Britain ‘con­cerned’ at Iraqi police abuse reports

After they read this report

A ‘ghost’ net­work of secret deten­tion cen­tres across the coun­try, inac­ces­si­ble to human rights organ­i­sa­tions, where tor­ture is tak­ing place.

UK aid funds Iraqi tor­ture units

But no need for more reports because the Iraq gov­ern­ment run­ning out of ideas to deny it

“These things hap­pen. We know that,” Laith Kubba told a news briefing

Iraqi gov­ern­ment admits abuses by secu­rity forces