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June 01, 2005

Don't believe your lying eyes

Bush at his Press Conference:

THE PRESIDENT: I'm aware of the Amnesty International report, and it's absurd. It's an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that is -- promotes freedom around the world. When there's accusations made about certain actions by our people, they're fully investigated in a transparent way. It's just an absurd allegation.

In terms of the detainees, we've had thousands of people detained. We've investigated every single complaint against the detainees. It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of -- and the allegations -- by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble -- that means not tell the truth. And so it was an absurd report. It just is. And, you know -- yes, sir.

Odd.

The Bush Administration didn't have trouble citing Amnesty International (warning: PDF file--see pages 11 and 12) when he was trying to make the case against Saddam Hussein immediately following 9/11.

Posted by Carla at June 1, 2005 04:49 PM