Bush: Critics Of Gitmo, Abu Ghraib And Rendition Are ‘Slandering America’

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Bush: Critics Of Gitmo, Abu Ghraib And Rendition Are ‘Slandering America’

During an interview with President Bush on Britain’s Sky News yesterday, Sky political editor Adam Boulton noted that while Bush talks “a lot about freedom,” there are many who say that some of the Bush administration’s torture and detention policies represent “the complete opposite of freedom.” But Bush quickly snapped back, saying those criticizing his policies are slandering America:

BOULTON: There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom.

BUSH: Of course, if you want to slander America.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/16/bush-critics-of-gitmo-abu-ghraib-and-rendition-are-slandering-america/

http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1319131&flashURL=/feeds/skynews/latest/flash/bush_bolton_150608.flv

[grasswire]

1. in your guts, you know he's nuts (eom)

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Slander? Then send the papers to my attorney, asshole!

And put me on trial for sedition too while you're at it.

[Cleita]

3. How about we are criticizing Bush for his obscenities.

He has nothing to do with America a country he has no interest in except as a candy store for himself and his cadre. He is the one slandering America.

[BrklynLib at work]

4. Yeah. Yes. Yep. Exactly.

[Vincardog]

5. Note to aWoL dim son. Bush is not America. WE can tell the truth about you and not hurt America.

[Boojatta]

6. Is it slander of China to say that the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square were peaceful?

Alternatively, is it necessary to either avoid talking about those protests or say that they were violent protests that required a violent response?

[Solly Mack]

7. Anyone expect a war criminal executive to say otherwise?

[Vickers]

8. It's not slander if it's the truth.

Get a fucking dictionary, you dimwitted alcoholic.

[OutNow]

9. As We Learned in Business Law

The defense against a charge of slander is that the statements are factual. If they are factual, then there can be no slander.

Hey W, sue me. The discovery process would be interesting.