I absolutely CONDEMN the government's actions!

For the first time in my own lifetime, I am deeply angered and ashamed at the actions of my country's representatives; and started feeling that we have cemented our downfall if we resort to this kind of duplicity in order to reach our objective (especially in reading many of the comments with the article that disagree that it was wrong - we have lost our moral compass and sight of the bigger picture - we will be unable to gain enough trust to eradicate polio if vaccination efforts are not continued, and the world will suffer for what? The death of one man. How many more will die than were killed at bin Laden's direction due to this???? Fucking idiots!).

The end does NOT justify the means - please join me in writing every one of our representatives to condemn these actions by the CIA, for if this kind of thing continues, it will harm us all. The extremists groups in the countries where polio is still endemic have always mistrusted the campaigns, claiming that we were trying to sterilize them with the vaccines and eradicate Muslims, now they have credible fuel to add to their fire, and we played right into their hands. Have we really stooped this low?

How the CIA’s Fake Vaccination Campaign Endangers Us All
The U.S. was wrong to use health workers to target Osama bin Laden
May 3, 2013

In its zeal to identify bin Laden or his family, the CIA used a sham hepatitis B vaccination project to collect DNA in the neighborhood where he was hiding. The effort apparently failed, but the violation of trust threatens to set back global public health efforts by decades.

It is hard enough to distribute, for example, polio vaccines to children in desperately poor, politically unstable regions that are rife with 10-year-old rumors that the medicine is a Western plot to sterilize girls—false assertions that have long since been repudiated by the Nigerian religious leaders who first promoted them. Now along come numerous credible reports of a vaccination campaign that is part of a CIA plot—one the U.S. has not denied.

The deadly consequences have already begun.

There must be a red line drawn between humanitarian efforts and the machinations of warfare, no matter how unconventional. The costs to future humanitarian endeavors, global stability and U.S. national security of doing otherwise are too high—even when weighed against the liquidation of one of the U.S.'s most fearsome enemies and even if no other option is available.

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