Bushspeak vs. Carter clarity

Last Friday, George W. Bush said, "This government does not torture people." I would bet that most of the people around the world who learned of that statement groaned.

Yesterday former President Jimmy Carter said that the United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law. He told Wolf Blitzer of CNN News: "I don't think it. I know it."

Carter said, "Our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned the basic principle of human rights. We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners..."

The evidence that our own country tortures people is overwhelming. It is undeniable. And so is the fact that--shamefully and sadly--the president of our country is a bald-faced liar.