There's never any bad news in Bushworld

just like i posted yesterday, there's NOTHING the power-mad president and his toadies can't (and won't) interpret in their favor...

In his most detailed comments to date on the Supreme Court's rejection of his decision to put detainees on trial before military commissions, President Bush said Friday that the court had tacitly approved his use of the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

"It didn't say we couldn't have done — couldn't have made that decision, see?" Mr. Bush said at a news conference in Chicago. "They were silent on whether or not Guantánamo — whether or not we should have used Guantánamo. In other words, they accepted the use of Guantánamo, the decision I made."

Mr. Bush's remarks put a favorable spin on a ruling that has been widely interpreted as a rebuke of the administration's policies in the war on terror. The court, ruled broadly last week in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that military commissions were unauthorized by statute and violated international law.

the court didn't tacitly approve shit, george... there's nothing whatsoever in the ruling that commented on the legitimacy or illegitimacy of guantánamo cuz that WASN'T the issue... spinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspin... when you're at the pearly gates having to account for your life, spin ain't gonna even get you to first base...

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