In the future, everything the President says will be true for 15 minutes.
The future is now.
"There's an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again," Bush said in Panama City Monday morning as reported by AP. "So you bet we will aggressively pursue them but we will do so under the law." He declared, "We do not torture."
For that to be true, many unimpeachable sources would have to be liars. One of those sources would have to be our own eyes. Of course the law is defined by loyal Bushites as whatever Bush wants it to be, and “we do not torture” is true or not true depending on the definition of torture, and the definition of we. I’m sure Bush has hands as clean as any other Brush Cutter with a fantasy ranch.
So although the Senate has passed legislation outlawing torture and although Bush, at least for the next 15 minutes, is not torturing anyone and thus shouldn’t care, the White House yet is seeking a special exemption allowing the CIA to torture prisoners in the various torture rooms we are using, many from the old Soviet régime. Of course we will need those torture chambers because even though we do not torture, the CIA does and even if perhaps we are not torturing anyone at this precise minute, we will shortly be doing so.
So the President is telling the truth that we do not torture even though we do torture. He was technically right for 15 minutes, honest man that he is. What is truth, after all?
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Truth is for those non-believers in the reality based community.
You know, I was thinking the same things. It's all in how you define his words. Which, of course, makes it all ok for him. Fuck, just that he is having the conversation and that there is a debate about this says something.
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