An angry President Bush reacted to a report by the human rights organization Amnesty International which criticized the treatment of prisoners at the American run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Bush used the word 'absurd' to describe the report. In fact, the president said 'absurd' four times in a ten sentence response to a question about the Amnesty report during a press conference at the Rose Garden Tuesday.

'It's an absurd allegation,' Bush insisted. 'The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world,' he said, adding: 'We've investigated every single complaint against the detainees. It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of — and the allegations by — people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble — that means not tell the truth. And so it was an absurd report.'

The report went as far as to call Guantanamo Bay prison 'the gulag of our time'--and therefore comparing it to prisons in the former Soviet Union and other communist countries where political opponents were often sent without a fair trial.

The president also answered his critics who said his domestic agenda is losing momentum. 'One thing is for certain: It takes a president willing to push people to do hard things,' Bush countered. He then added, 'I don't worry about anything here in Washington, D.C. I mean, I feel comfortable in my role as the president, and my role in the president is to push for reform.'

Bush also reiterated his confidence in the new Iraqi government. 'I think the Iraq government will be up to the task of defeating the insurgents,' he said when asked about the 760 Iraqis and more than 60 Americans killed in Iraq since the new government took office.

Commentary:
"The Problem with Bush" is he's lied and been wrong so many times no one trusts him anymore. Everyone in the country knows the US abused prisoners so why does he persist in lying about it?