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Bush Defends Interrogation Practices

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Mon Nov 07, 2005 at 10:17:01 AM EST
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President Bush, speaking in Latin America, defended his Administration's treatment of detainees:

President Bush vigorously defended U.S. interrogation practices in the war on terror today and lobbied against a congressional drive to outlaw torture.

"There's an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again," Bush said. "So you bet we will aggressively pursue them but we will do so under the law." He declared, "We do not torture."

Right. We just send them to other countries that do allow torture.

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    • Bush Defends Interrogation Practices | 8 comments (8 topical)
    Re: Bush Defends Interrogation Practices (none / 0) (#1)
    by desertswine on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:48 PM EST
    "We do not torture."
    Tell that to President Cheney.

    Re: Bush Defends Interrogation Practices (none / 0) (#2)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:48 PM EST
    "Any activity we conduct is within the law." "We do not torture." -- Really. We don't. We just redefine it under law.

    Re: Bush Defends Interrogation Practices (none / 0) (#3)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:48 PM EST
    He declared, "We do not torture."
    He thrusts his fists against the post, and still insists he sees the ghost.

    Re: Bush Defends Interrogation Practices (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:48 PM EST
    ""There's an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again," Bush said." He added, 'We're having some problem with our next plot, because of a Federal Prosecutor. I want to torture him, big time.'

    Re: Bush Defends Interrogation Practices (none / 0) (#6)
    by kdog on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:48 PM EST
    And a frog's arse is not watertight!

    Re: Bush Defends Interrogation Practices (none / 0) (#7)
    by john horse on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:48 PM EST
    I don't understand. If according to Bush "we don't torture" then why does the Bush administration oppose laws against the use of torture?

    Re: Bush Defends Interrogation Practices (none / 0) (#8)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:49 PM EST
    John Horse, Stop asking rediculous questions.

    Re: Bush Defends Interrogation Practices (none / 0) (#9)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:51 PM EST
    Posted by edger at November 7, 2005 11:27 AM
    "Any activity we conduct is within the law." "We do not torture."
    -- Really. We don't. We just redefine it under law.
    Bush's Tortured Logic:
    Andrew Sullivan writes: "If that's the case, why threaten to veto a law that would simply codify what Bush alleges is already the current policy? If 'we do not torture,' how to account for the hundreds and hundreds of cases of abuse and torture by U.S. troops, documented by the government itself? If 'we do not torture,' why the memos that expanded exponentially the lee-way given to the military to abuse detainees in order to get intelligence? The president's only defense against being a liar is that he is defining 'torture' in such a way that no other reasonable person on the planet, apart from Bush's own torture apologists (and they are now down to one who will say so publicly), would agree.


    Bush Defends Interrogation Practices | 8 comments (8 topical)