George W. Bush Blames Torture Policy on U.S. Troops

REPORTER: I mean, you've talked a lot about freedom. I've heard you talk about freedom -- I think every time I've seen you.

GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes.

REPORTER: And yet there are those who would say, look, let's take Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and rendition and all those things, and to them that is the, you know, the complete opposite of freedom.

GEORGE W. BUSH: Of course if you want to slander America, you can look at it one way. But you go down -- what you need to do -- I think I suggested you do this at a press conference -- if you go down to Guantanamo and take a look at how these prisoners are treated -- and they're working it through our court systems. We are a land of law.

REPORTER: But the Supreme Court have just said that -- you know, ruled against what you've been doing down there.

GEORGE W. BUSH: But the district court didn't. And the appellate court didn't.

REPORTER: The Supreme Court is supreme, isn't it?

GEORGE W. BUSH: It is, and I accept their verdict. I don't agree with their verdict. And it's not what I was doing down there. This was a law passed by our United States Congress that I worked with the Congress to get passed and sign into law.

REPORTER: But it looked like an attempt to bypass the Constitution, to a certain extent.

GEORGE W. BUSH: This was a law passed, Adam. We passed a law. Bypassing the Constitution means that we did something outside the bounds of the Constitution. We went to the Congress and got a piece of legislation passed.

REPORTER: Which is now being struck down, I think.

GEORGE W. BUSH: It is, and I accept what the Supreme Court did, and I necessarily don't have to agree with it.

My only point to you is, is that yes, I mean, we certainly wish Abu Ghraib hadn't happened, but that should not reflect America. This was the actions of some soldiers.

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[girlcalledaish]

omg.....its like putting a monkey in the oval office

the monkey would have been better!

[walkermydawg]

"we are a land of law." A fucking dolt. How stupid can that wife be, procreating with this moron?

[TheRichestCadaver]

His wife is like. Ohoh what is my idiot husband going to say now. I will keep smiling pretending everything is fine.

[AdamRainStopper]

The man who gives the orders is responsible, but so are the ones who carry these orders out. If you are that much of a sap to where you will do things outside of your own ethics just because someone tells you to, you are far too weak-willed to be trusted with an M16 or with detainees. Neither Georgie nor the soldiers can pawn off accountability for their role. A superior officer who ordered me to do that shit might get shot. If you can't hold YOURSELF to Nuremberg principles, you have nothing.

[sonofatiger]

KING GEORGE WHAT A FUCK UP.

[bigyymajesticyy]

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[dihydrohydroxycodein]

soldiers are not to blame. people tell them they actually fight against pure evil and when they kill civilians as in Vietnam we blame them and not the politicians.

[Phil1stalk]

"This was the actions of some soldiers." I heard it. So some soldiers at Guantanamo did this all on their own. Waterboarding is "cruel and unusual". If the country doesn't throw out the globlists and tax and tariff the nation's share of their internationialist corporations then the globalists are going to have to count on the US military to fire on rioting, and even combating, American citizens for a prolonged period of revolt after all of these abuses and lies. No more Pleasant Valley Sundays.

[TheMattd546]

@nowthatsinteresting1 yep for those 3 people it was worth it those 3 people other then osama was the most wanted in the world not just the usa but other country's wanted those men for a long time & we happend to get them, stoped future plots to destroy & not just us but other country's its worth changing laws to save just 1 person in my eyes what if 5 people was after your family & they found 1 of them would you be ok with them saying its only 1 person its not worth it let him go? i would be mad

[nowthatsinteresting1]

@TheMattd546 So only 3 people have ever been waterboarded, right? So your government went to the trouble of changing their own legal definition of torture just so they could waterboard 3 guys? Don't they have a proper job to do?

[TheMattd546]

@nowthatsinteresting1 hard to explane 100 pages of points in a few little spaces you couldnt get my point? lol i was just saying the people being tortured are terrorist, look into it, they only waterboarding 3 people just (3) and those 3 was leaders and just under osama bin laden, like how a president and vice president is, get me? u ask how do i know that the people being tortured are terrorist, and thats how i know, those was other then o.b.l the other 3 was on fbi most wanted list, get me?

[nowthatsinteresting1]

@TheMattd546 And you're thinking of writing a book?? Fuck me I can't understand the points you're trying to make.