Friday, June 03, 2005

Bush reads dictionary.com's word of the day

On May 31, in response to Amnesty International's report blasting the United States for detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Bush had the following to say. Pay special attention to the last line:

“It’s just an absurd allegation. In terms of, you know, the detainees, we’ve had thousands of people detained. We’ve investigated every single complaint against the detainees,” Bush said.
The US president added: “It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of and the allegations by people that were held in detention, people who hate America, people that have been trained in some instances to disassemble, that means not tell the truth.”

Now check out the "word of the day" for May 30 (i.e. the day before the news conference) at the following link:
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2005/05/30.html

Can you believe this?

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