Absurd Gulag

WASHINGTON, May 31 (MASNET & News Agencies) - President George W. Bush slammed as "absurd" an Amnesty International report alleging that his administration had set up an international "gulag" outside legal control.
The U.S. president bristled when asked at a White House press conference about an Amnesty report last week which said the Guantanamo detention camp for terrorist suspects had become the "gulag of our times", reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Amnesty International last week said human rights are in retreat worldwide and the United States bears most of the responsibility, reports Reuters news agency.
"It is an absurd report. It just is," Bush said, asked about the report by the London-based human rights watchdog which referred to "a new [U.S.] gulag of prisons around the world beyond the reach of the law and decency."
"I'm aware of the Amnesty International report, and it's absurd. It's an absurd allegation," Bush replied.

Definition of absurd: 1 : ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous2 : having no rational or orderly relationship to human life : MEANINGLESS; also : lacking order or value
Definition of gulag: Etymology: Russian, from Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh lagerei chief administration of corrective labor camps: the penal system of the U.S.S.R. consisting of a network of labor camps