Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. answers President George Bush’s preposterous assertion, “We do not torture.”
“...In the name of fighting terror we have terrorized, and in the name of defending our values we have betrayed them. We have imprisoned Muslims in America and refused to say if we had them, why we had them or even to provide them attorneys. We have passed laws making it easier for government to snoop into what you read, whom you talk to, where you go. We have equated dissent with lack of patriotism, disagreement with treason.
“And we have tortured.
“Yes, Bush says we don't do that kind of thing but, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, who you going to believe, him or your lying eyes?”
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