CNN.com - Bush: Amnesty report 'absurd' - May 31, 2005

CNN.com - Bush: Amnesty report 'absurd' - May 31, 2005: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush called a human rights report 'absurd' for criticizing the United States' detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and said Tuesday the allegations were made by 'people who hate America.'

'It's absurd. It's an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world,' Bush said of the Amnesty International report that compared Guantanamo to a Soviet-era gulag.

In a Rose Garden news conference, Bush defiantly stood by his domestic policy agenda while defending his actions abroad. With the death toll climbing daily in Iraq, he said that nation's fledging government is 'plenty capable' of defeating terrorists whose attacks on Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers have intensified"