A realer man who was comfortable in his role in the president would have acknowledged the work they do, first.working and working and working
The president's brusque dismissal of last week's critical report by Amnesty International came during a Rose Garden news conference in which Bush sought to counter speculation that he is losing his political clout.
Referring to Amnesty International's comparison of Guantanamo to a Soviet concentration camp, Bush declared, "It's just an absurd allegation." He said the government has investigated every complaint of abuse stemming from the arrest of thousands of detainees captured since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.Finlay Lewis/Copley/SanDiegoUnionTribune 01.Jun.05
"Yes, these Amnesty guys are champions of the unjustly imprisoned and tortured, and yes there are far too many unjustly imprisoned and tortured people in the world; and yes they do great work calling attention to the injustice that's so easy to ignore when it isn't happening to you - but in this case, about us, they're wrong."
He makes it too obvious that he doesn't care. Talking to a world that's seen photographs of inhuman treatment of prisoners by American service personnel, it's unwise to use the word "absurd" when someone has accused you of doing essentially the same thing somewhere else. It makes you look guilty.
