WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday dismissed a human rights report as "absurd" for its harsh criticism of U.S. treatment of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying the allegations were made by prisoners "who hate America."
"It's an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world," Bush said of the Amnesty International report that compared Guantanamo to a Soviet-era gulag.
Yes, these are terrorists who are trained to lie to Amnesty International, trained to lie about how they are being treated....Terrorists who maligned their own holy book to get attention, who tore pages of the Koran out and blamed it on troops, who have lied and obfuscated...and this so-called human rights advocate believes those who routinely behead, rape, and pillage.....
