Frank Rich of the NYT said: "So when you watch the president stand there with a straight face and say, "We do not torture" - a full year and a half after the first photos from Abu Ghraib - you have to wonder how we arrived at this ludicrous moment...."
http://www.bushwatch.net/bush.htm

And, IF WE DON'T TORTURE, why do we need to carve out an exemption for the CIA that would allow them to torture? What is it I am failing to grasp here? Am I suffering from cognitive dissonance? No, no , no ,no. I've figured it out. Bush is like the magician who gets you to look at his left hand while he is picking your pocker with his right. Bush is once again lying to us. He is telling us we don't torture when he knows damn good and well that we do but we do it in such ways that he and his administration can parse sentences and weasel word things so what they are saying technically is not a lie but bears no resemblence to the facts on the ground. Mr President does your administration torture prisoners you hold captive? Of course the answer to that is NO. Just think of all the outs in that question. First off we are not holding them captive, some other nation is. So technically saying no is not a lie. Part one of Bush's higher moral standard and unparalleled integrity. And you wonder why more than 50% of Americans think he lied to us about Iraq.