WTF File #1 - Hillary and Barak Apologize for the 1940's

Here's the long and short of the WTF Files:

Long ago, no telling how long ago, my BFF Libby (Libby-from-law-school-Libby) and I began exchanging morning emails as we upstarted our day's work. Invariably, we would find the most unusual and bizarre life situations repeated in the public forum we now know as online news. I have found such a news article today that causes me so much consternation on a Saturday morning, that I will email it to her directly, but have chosen to share the gist here.

I believe that this articule fully justifies any and all paranoia about our government....sadly dating back farther than I would have liked. Nonetheless, we aparently purposely used Guatamalan "sex workers" to test penicilin efficacy for sexually transmitted diseases. I am disgusted and sick in the pit o' me stomach. Found on CNN at http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/01/us.guatemala.apology/index.html?hpt=T2, it reads in part:

"The United States apologized Friday for a 1946-1948 research study in which people in Guatemala were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases."

" 'Though it happened 64 years ago, it really is a profound violation of human rights,' said Colom [president], who said the report took him by surprise."

"The scientific investigation, called the U.S. Public Health Service Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study of 1946-1948, aimed at determining the effectiveness of penicillin in treating or preventing syphilis after subjects were exposed to the disease. Gonorrhea and chancres were also studied. Penicillin was a relatively new drug at the time.

"The tests were carried out on female commercial sex workers, prisoners in the national penitentiary, patients in the national mental hospital and soldiers. According to the study, more than 1,600 people were infected: 696 with syphilis, 772 with gonorrhea and 142 with chancres."

I cannot go on any further. I cannot imagine in this universe where a mere apology is meaningful in this situation. Perhaps when you spill a cup of milk, or forget to tell Grandma thanks for a birthday gift...but intentionally inflicting gonorrhea into the populace of a 3rd world country's primarily uneducated populace in order to find a cure for your puritanical and educated folks (who have the SAME DISEASES I might point out).... I can't do this...I gotta get a fresh cup of coffee....