"Terrorist Propaganda Photos:" GOP Unveils New Phrase For Detainee Torture Photos

The Plumline:

Get ready to hear Republicans and conservative opinion-makers using a new phrase to describe the unreleased photos of detainees that are at the center of a white-hot political war right now: "Terrorist propaganda photos."

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Comments

[DrJulienArbor]

You've been pulling this crap since at least Pearl Harbor!

ENOUGH.

[neocon666]

Typical conservospeak: the US tortured prisoners, but since the photos make the US look bad, they'e no longer EVIDENCE proving that we violated our own constitution and international law, they're suddenly "terrorist propaganda", as if Al Qaeda snuck into the facilties and took the photos themselves.

BTW: if we love torture so much, what can we charge anyone who torutures our military personel (or civilians for that matter) with?

[tmc553]

Pathetic how the conservatives are trying to make the photos instead of the actions they condoned the issue. The real terrorist propaganda is not the photos but the fact that the United States did these things with the support and blessing of the Bush administration and the Republican party that supported them.
If it hadn't happened there would be no photos. If you want to create terrorists the most effective way is to give them something to hate. In this, the neocons have succeeded wildly. It is sad that it is their only success. May they reap the fruits of their actions.

[sansainte]

Were these photos taken by the TERRORISTS or by our military? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that Boehner just call our troop TERRORISTS­..This guy should learn to keep his mouth shut. Every time he flaps his gums he sets the Republican party back another 50 years... But then again..kee­p those gums flapping John..

[LarBear]

So instead of standing up and saying to the World and to the Radical who accuse of of acting two faced, we continue to act two faced?

How does NOT putting those in Government who VIOLATED Treaties we signed and Laws we helped write, strengthen our position against the Terrorist who hate us??? We're putting our Nation, our Military, and our People in jeopardy by proving to the Terrorist they were correct... WE LIE!

WE had our Government run Rogue and Invade/Occupy another Nation... OUR Nation abused and Tortured People... OUR Nation behaved in ways we claim we're against...

Those Photos were taken in connection with USA Government Sponsored Terrorism.­.. OUR Nation Terrorized Prisoners under our care as a matter of Policy...

President Obama saying OUR Nation does NOT Torture is just words until WE actually Prosecute some of the high ups who authorized the Torture... Bringing the Photos into the Light of Day says WE OWN our mistakes and punish those who violate the Law... The Photos exist... The hiding of the Photos actually serves to show the Terrorists they are correct... WE say one thing and do another...­.

[johnr49]

Mr Boehner,

Are you implying that the terrorists took these photos with hidden cameras, or did they pay people on our side to take them?

[marye13]

I always thought that these people have not shame - this just confirms it.

[Appleton]

If Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, had complied with their oaths of office and their oversight responsibilities, the Bush administration would have been unable to adopt torture as a national policy. Rep. Boehner continues to amaze me with his dim-witted statements. The "terrorist propoganda photographs" would not even exist had he been doing something other than warming a seat for the past eight years. Once again he is showing a preference for creating new euphemisms rather than risk public condemnation for his complicity in the actions the photographs display.

[expired]

Cons make me sick.

[sviolette]

Now they are calling our troops terrorists?

[helonias]

Great!!!

New speak

Orwell would be impressed

[mredder4]

So the GOP is now saying that American troops starred in "terrorist propaganda photos"?? Am I hearing that correctly?

[sviolette]

These people are idiots and they think that we are as stupid as they are.

[ThermoChemist]

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservati­ves."
--John Stuart Mill

[FernandoRuiz]

Isnt is sad that what the last administration did is so gross and disgusting that it cant be released because our troops and diplomats abroad would be targeted? Way to "protect" American lives Republicans

[Gidster]

The GOP renames waterboarding as "Freedom Showers"..­....

By any other name, it still is what it is.......

Pictures of POWs being abused by AMERICAN soldiers!