As usual, George Bush is demonstrably full of shit.
Billmon with another perfectly illustrative juxtaposition, this time between some of the steaming pile of crap that passed itself off as Bush's Second Inaugural Address and a story on the U.S. policy on torture.
George W. Bush
Second Inaugural Speech
January 20, 2005
Officers of the Central Intelligence Agency and other nonmilitary personnel fall outside the bounds of a 2002 directive issued by President George W. Bush that pledged the humane treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody, Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel, said in a document.
In written responses to questions posed by senators as part of their consideration of his nomination to be attorney general, Gonzales also said a separate congressional ban on cruel, unusual and inhumane treatment had "a limited reach" and did not apply in all cases to "aliens overseas."
New York Times
Gonzales excludes CIA from rules on prisoners
January 20, 2005
They might want to increase Bush's security detail. They've probably got most common threats to his safety pretty well under control, but what are they doing about the possibility that he get struck down by a bolt of lightning? If there's anything to any of his religious mumbo-jumbo in the first place, it's bound to happen.
