It just is

Idiot-in-chief answers Amnesty International, from the White House web site's transcription of his news conference today:

THE PRESIDENT: I'm aware of the Amnesty International report, and it's absurd. It's an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that is -- promotes freedom around the world. When there's accusations made about certain actions by our people, they're fully investigated in a transparent way. It's just an absurd allegation.

In terms of the detainees, we've had thousands of people detained. We've investigated every single complaint against the detainees. It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of -- and the allegations -- by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble -- that means not tell the truth. And so it was an absurd report. It just is.

So many Bushisms in two paragraphs! I guess my favorite for taking a quote slightly out of context, which is the only way to keep Bush from "disassemble"-ing (!), would be

The United States is a country that is -- promotes freedom around the world. When there's accusations made about certain actions by our people, they're fully investigated in a transparent way. It's just an absurd allegation.

Actually, two.

And I'm sure the world will be relieved to learn (probably falsely) that the Bushies have investigated every single complaint against the detainees! And "we've had thousands of people detained." How many of those have you accused of crimes, George? How many convicted? Even if Gitmo was the Paris Hilton (the hotel) with immaculate, climate-controlled cells and ornate arrows pointing towards Mecca on every floor and sparkling Korans carefully hand-delivered by each detainee's imam of choice--it is still a crime to grab people and take them to the other side of the world and hold them for three years without legal rights or representation. Even Bush thinks that it's wrong to throw people in jail without a trial--here's what he said today about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oil oligarch who was arrested in 2003 and sentenced today:

I expressed my concerns about the case to President Putin because, as I explained to him, here you're innocent until proven guilty, and it appeared to us, or at least people in my administration, that it looked like he had been judged guilty prior to having a fair trial. In other words, he was put in prison, and then was tried.

Two words, idiot--Jose Padilla.

I'm sure there's plenty of other outrages in aWol's press conference, but I have neither the time nor the stomach to look for more. It is already obvious to me that he's an evil idiot; it just is.