Why Does Bush Hate America So Much?
Here’s a story by Washington Post writer Jim VandeHei about Bush’s comments at yesterday’s Rose Garden news conference.
In what has become a monthly session with reporters, Bush said an Amnesty International report condemning the U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was “absurd.”
“It seemed 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,” Bush said. He appeared to have intended to use the word “dissemble.”
I’ve read that it’s pretty common for people to mix up “dissemble” and “disassemble,” but you’d think that a graduate from Yale with an MBA from Harvard would use the correct word.
That aside, Bush says we shouldn’t believe the allegations of the former Guantánamo detainees because they were trained to dissemble. Hmmm… Can I think of any other people who have perfected the art of dissembling? Oh yeah… what’s that guy’s name that dissembled during the run-up to the Iraq war? Whose Administration dissembled before Congress in 2003 in order to get them to pass the Drug Prescription bill? Who’s that guy that has been dissembling for months about the “urgent” need to overhaul Social Security?
Answer: George W. Bush, Dissembler in Chief
