the torturer-in-chief lied to the world

[spanone]

as my friend says, 'one lyin' sumbitch'

WASHINGTON — The proclamation that President George W. Bush issued on June 26, 2003, to mark the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture seemed innocuous, one of dozens of high-minded statements published and duly ignored each year.

The United States is “committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example,” Mr. Bush declared, vowing to prosecute torture and to prevent “other cruel and unusual punishment.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/us/politics/04detain.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

[jimshoes]

1. I wonder what his pep talks must have

sounded like? ... Now , get out there and LIE!

[spanone]

2. the president was saying this as we were torturing our enemy....i find that frightening...

give us a good lie for the gipper

[AllentownJake]

3. He lied about everything

Why is this surprising.

[elizfeelinggreat]

4. Thank you for this! More sunshine treatment ...

Most news accounts of the C.I.A. program have focused on how it was approved and operated. This is the story of its unraveling, based on interviews with more than a dozen former Bush administration officials. They insisted on anonymity because they feared being enmeshed in future investigations or public controversy, but they shed new light on the battle about the C.I.A. methods that grew passionate in the second Bush term.

The consensus of top administration officials about the C.I.A. interrogation program, which they had approved without debate or dissent in 2002, began to fall apart the next year. Acutely aware that the agency would be blamed if the policies lost political support, nervous C.I.A. officials began to curb its practices much earlier than most Americans know: no one was waterboarded after March 2003, and coercive interrogation methods were shelved altogether in 2005.