Cruel Distortion: 'We Do Not Torture'? Is the President Serious?: "At times President Bush inspires a kind of awe. It is a rare individual who can repeat obvious falsehoods with so much tenacity and conviction that millions of listeners eventually mistake them for the truth.
... This administration has condoned and sometimes encouraged the cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees. A president who excuses this policy, denies it or conceals it from public view is assaulting this country's basic values in the name of preserving them."
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