The New York Times | The President: Amid Protests, Bush Sees Thaw in Europe

"Mr. Bush said that [the Irish Prime Minister] Mr. Ahern had questioned him in a meeting on Saturday morning about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the American treatment of other prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, as did President Mary McAleese of Ireland in her own meeting with Mr. Bush.

'I told them both I was sick with what happened inside that prison,' Mr. Bush said, referring to Abu Ghraib in Baghdad, where Americans abused Iraqi prisoners. 'The actions of those troops did not reflect what we think. And it did harm.'"

Oh yeah? These acts of torture were not condoned, even requested, by the White House? D'ya buy into that one, Bubba?