Article: OPINION: What Drives One Human To Torture Another? By University of Vermont Professors Paul Newhouse, M.D. and David Fassler, M.D.

Byline: University of Vermont

BURLINGTON, Vt., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- President George W. Bush has labeled the recent abusive acts of U.S. soldiers on Iraqi prisoners as "un-American." The military claims the incident in Iraq is isolated, but is it? Over the past seven years, Amnesty International has received reports of torture in more than 150 countries. Why kind of person does this to another human being?

"Prisoner abuse has been very common in all past wars," says Paul Newhouse, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, an army veteran who served as division psychiatrist for the 3rd Infantry Division and, ...

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