Torture Of The Absurd

My UPC colleague Goose, over at Comments from Left Field, has the definitive word on Bush's preposterous claim that Amnesty International reports on torture and abuse by the U.S. are "absurd".

Goose cites a few cases in the rush to war in Iraq when Amnesty International's word was certainly good enough for the administration, then concludes with the logical killer:

"In an effort to deflect attention (or more exactly to discredit the message) Bush claimed that the allegations of torture at Abu Gharib, Guantanamo Bay, and other detention facilities around the globe were uncredible because they came from "prisoners who hate America." Nice try Dubya but these people who supposedly hate America are actually people who we held in detention, some of them for years, without charges, who were then released because they were INNOCENT and subsequently reported on the abuses they experienced. Again, if these were terrorists who hate America then why the hell did we release them?"

Indeed.