President Bush on Abu Ghraib

Quote of the Day: President Bush (RNS) “Abu Ghraib: I believe that really hurt us. It hurt us internationally. It kind of eased us off the moral high ground; we weren’t a country that was capable of, on the one hand, promoting democracy and then treating people decently.” -President Bush, responding to a reporter’s question […]

Quote of the Day: President Bush

(RNS) “Abu Ghraib: I believe that really hurt us. It hurt us internationally. It kind of eased us off the moral high ground; we weren’t a country that was capable of, on the one hand, promoting democracy and then treating people decently.”

-President Bush, responding to a reporter’s question at a White House news conference on Wednesday (Oct. 11) about torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.


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