Scholars urge Bush to ban use of torture

[cal04]

Source: Associated Press

President Bush was presented with a letter Monday signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States.

The White House said Bush had not expected the letter but took a moment to read it and talk with a young woman who handed it to him.

"The president enjoyed a visit with the students, accepted the letter and upon reading it let the student know that the United States does not torture and that we value human rights," deputy press secretary Dana Perino said.

The students had been invited to the East Room to hear the president speak about his effort to win congressional reauthorization of his education law known as No Child Left Behind.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070625/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_torture_2

[annabanana]

1. The kids are

Al-l-l-l-lRIGHT!

I can just imagine his squinty little smushed up face.. The one he gets when he's pissed but knows he's not allowed to blow off steam. .

(edited to note that Yahoo stories can be rated)

[northofdenali]

2. That's why they are the scholars -

and * isn't.

[Xipe Totec]

3. They're scholars, while Bush is a school arse nt

[saigon68]

4. Gangster Cheney doesn't agree

As a kid I'll bet he killed small mammals like rabbits and threw gas on helpless creatures and burned them

[northofdenali]

5. Hey, isn't that what all good little sociopaths do? n/t

[saigon68]

23. Yes unfortunately

[CBHagman]

6. "We do not want America to represent torture."

Can you believe we have reached a point where someone even has to write those words? :cry:

May our future be with these wise students and not the power-mad, arrogant outfit that has hijacked our government.

[Olney Blue]

7. Guess he missed the WaPo series on Darth Cheney.

[harun]

9. Quick on his feet still

"The president enjoyed a visit with the students, accepted the letter and upon reading it let the student know that the United States does not torture and that we value human rights," deputy press secretary Dana Perino said.

I wonder if he said this because the United States uses other countries and contractors to do our torturing for us. So to him this actually isn't a lie.

[Olney Blue]

12. Yes, Cheney uses it too: "We don't torture."

Indeed, it is done in the black hole prisons, not here on U.S. soil.

[Roy]

8. The nerve of these uppity kids....

And you asked why the ex-preme court wanna put limits on their speech?

Not one of them bowed down to kiss the hem of his garment.

These kids are a good example for the need of right wing style home schooling.

:sarcasm:

[maddezmom]

10. Error: You've already recommended that thread.

:kick: :D

[Nikki Stone1]

11. No 5

:kick: and R

[jbane]

13. The IRS is working on an audit

of the tax returns of all those little traitors families as soon as the vice president found about this act of treason!

[Harry Monroe]

14. Shame on Bush for lying to a high school student!!!

"The president enjoyed a visit with the students, accepted the letter and upon reading it let the student know that the United States does not torture and that we value human rights," deputy press secretary Dana Perino said.

What a crock of shit!!!! Those students have more integrity and morality in their little fingers than Bush has in his whole body.

[young_at_heart]

15. Would you say that this is "unprecedented"?

It seems that every aspect of this president's behavior and actions has the word "unprecedented" attached to it.

[unkachuck]

16. "The president....

enjoyed a visit with the students, accepted the letter and upon reading it let the student know that the United States does not torture..."

....even if everyone in the bush administration unanimously stated, 'the United States does not torture', who in the world would believe them?

[LuckyLib]

17. "Kids, let me explain. We don't torture. We hire it out."

[RamboLiberal]

18. K&R - here's to the High School Seniors

:patriot: :applause: :yourock: :kick:

[Contrary1]

19. Hope:

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies”.
(Quote from Shawshank Redemption)

I hope that our young can turn things around.

[Lisa]

20. what he really wanted to do was fling the letter down, stomp on it ...

... and then order the students flown out of the country to some illicit prison overseas. He was probably fuming about this all day.

Bravo to them, for speaking truth to power! They deserve to be in the White House, not him!

[Hekate]

21. There is hope for our future, with such young people in it.Heartwarming.

I liked the way Keith Olberman told the story and applauded them.

Hekate

[Judi Lynn]

22. So they go all the way to Washington to meet the pResident, and get to see him lying in person!

We've gone from the first President, "I cannot tell a lie," to the pResident, "I've never told the truth!"

I hope they all will get a terrific photo to commemorate the event, take with them the image of the nation's top official lying his ass off about crimes against humanity, and make a promise to themselves to never live a pointless life, and become someone sane people abhor.

[Javaman]

24. It's like when homer tries to understand something that lisa is explaining to him. nt