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The Supreme Court judgement handed down last week may have been a “stunning blow to the Bush Administration in its ‘war-on-terrorism policies”, but Bush apparently feels vindicated by the fact that he had the district court and the appellate court on his side:

Boulton: “I mean, you’ve talked a lot about freedom. I’ve heard you talk about freedom — I think every time I’ve seen you.”

Bush: “Yes.”

Boulton: “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.”

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. ”

Boulton: “But the Supreme Court have just said that — you know, ruled against what you’ve been doing down there.”

Bush: “But the district court didn’t. And the appellate court didn’t.”

Bush clearly won this round, 2 courts to 1.

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So I am now a presidentially certified slanderer of America, you’re thinking. Well, I have news: so are most of you. I may be an active slanderer, but all of you who read the slander, and did not immediately rise to the defense of Bush America, are clearly guilty of being passive slanderers, or accomplices-after-the-fact to active slander.

When the time comes, they’ll probably put us in adjacent cell-blocks.