George W. Bush Blames Torture Policy on U.S. Troops
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REPORTER: I mean, you’ve talked a lot about freedom. I’ve heard you talk about freedom — I think every time I’ve seen you.
GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes.
REPORTER: And yet there are those who would say, look, let’s take Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and rendition and all those things, and to them that is the, you know, the complete opposite of freedom.
GEORGE W. BUSH: Of course if you want to slander America, you can look at it one way. But you go down — what you need to do — I think I suggested you do this at a press conference — if you go down to Guantanamo and take a look at how these prisoners are treated — and they’re working it through our court systems. We are a land of law.
REPORTER: But the Supreme Court have just said that — you know, ruled against what you’ve been doing down there.
GEORGE W. BUSH: But the district court didn’t. And the appellate court didn’t.
REPORTER: The Supreme Court is supreme, isn’t it?
GEORGE W. BUSH: It is, and I accept their verdict. I don’t agree with their verdict. And it’s not what I was doing down there. This was a law passed by our United States Congress that I worked with the Congress to get passed and sign into law.
REPORTER: But it looked like an attempt to bypass the Constitution, to a certain extent.
GEORGE W. BUSH: This was a law passed, Adam. We passed a law. Bypassing the Constitution means that we did something outside the bounds of the Constitution. We went to the Congress and got a piece of legislation passed.
REPORTER: Which is now being struck down, I think.
GEORGE W. BUSH: It is, and I accept what the Supreme Court did, and I necessarily don’t have to agree with it.
My only point to you is, is that yes, I mean, we certainly wish Abu Ghraib hadn’t happened, but that should not reflect America. This was the actions of some soldiers.
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