Saying it doesn't make it so Dorothy...

...not even if you close your eyes and click the ruby slippers.

See, on the one hand:

Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture' - Yahoo! News

Meanwhile, back in the real world...

Cheney Seeks CIA Exemption to Torture Ban

It's just so amazingly incredible how they just lie straight to your face, innit?

"America doesn't torture people, unless we really do, in which case we'd need an exemption to that law we say we'd never need."

Un-freaking-believable.

You can only stare in gap-mouthed awe at the sheer audacity.