Link of the Day--Matt on Bush's Hypocrisy

Matt rips Bush a new one over his hypocrisy. Bush talks about freedom and using torture to protect us from terrorists while examples abound of innocent people being held and tortured. Even worse, Bush attacks Syria for its undemocratic ways while we send people to Syria to be tortured. I can't say it better than Matt:

"This is shameful and disgusting in so many ways. First, there's the obvious: An innocent man, a husband and father, was taken from his family and tortured because Dick Cheney wanted to take a walk on the dark side. There's the jaw-dropping hypocrisy of George W. Bush condemning the Syrian government for its lack of freedom and democracy with one hand, while delivering people there to be tortured with the other. And then there's the very possible, even probable, outcome that foreign intelligence services will now be less likely to share information about terror suspects with the U.S. out of the reasonable fear that their citizens will be snatched up and spirited away to some dungeon without even the faintest whiff of due process.

I wonder if President Bush even realizes how, with stories like Arar's spreading through the Middle East, his talk of freedom is perceived, at best, as darkly comic. I seriously doubt it."