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To: TigerPaw who wrote (235624)	6/3/2005 3:33:15 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572033

Let's recap: We have a holding facility established specifically to avoid judicial oversight; detainees who were "disappeared" from their home countries and who were called "unlawful combatants" to ensure that they would have no legal rights; a memo to the president that assured him that torture wasn't illegal until a kidney failed; abuses at the American-run Abu Ghraib prison that revealed what can happen when the law is suspended - yet the president thinks it's absurd to suggest that anything might be going wrong at Guantanamo Bay. Of the Amnesty report, Bush said, "It seemed 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 to tell the truth." Actually, "disassemble" means "to take apart," which is what the Bush administration has done with America's reputation as a defender of freedom and democracy. The word the president intended to use was "dissemble." The president wants us to take his word that no one has been tortured at Guantanamo, but how can we trust his word when he doesn't know what he's saying? My words describing Bush have already been said by an MP of Parliament. His words are as true now as they were when they were first made: ''Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy,'' Kaufman wrote. telegraph.co.uk