"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

[NedroidPrime]

So if these are "Terrorist Propaganda Photos", doesn't that make the people who took them terrorists?

HOW DARE THEY INSULT OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES!!!
/FakeOutrage

Do they even think before calling the press!?

[TeeLolly]

Why should they think? By this afternoon, Wolf Blitzer of CNN will undoubtedly be using the new terminology as if there were never any doubt ...

[awibod]

Next thing you know they will change the name of the Iraq Invasion to......
"PLAYING IN A SANDBOX"

[IbeHappy]

Why don't we call them "Bush Vacation Photos" because it shows all those detainees enjoying the sun and sand and tropical breezes at GITMO. Or the "Cheney Health Spa Treatment Photos".

[lornejl]

They got to eat lemon chicken also too.

[Icantbelieveher]

GOP claim that such photos help terrorist recruitment

Tell me why they would help recruitment if they aren't toture? The GOP keeps saying that nothing that was done to detainees was wrong because it worked. If there's nothing wrong with what was done to them, why can't the pictures come out?

You can't have it both ways!

[TeeLolly]

When one has two faces, each face expects to get its own way.

[J-Rome]

The Republican Party is a joke. A pathetic joke at that.

[hollybork]

Stupid yes, but also guilty of turning a blind eye to cruelty, manipulation and venal self interest. They are in it together, and that is not funny. I find them pathetic, but not a joke. Their party is done, but the idiots who populate the far right will be with us forever.

[hapiday]

Not one tv station is going to bring to their attention what the phrase "Terrorist Propaganda Photos" means. The republicans will go on State of the Union and spout this nonsense and King won't dare question them.

[CardboardBox]

Is this a tacit admission by republicans that Cheney's torture program has served to embolden/ recruit terrorists around the world? Sounds like it.

The pressure is getting to them. Watch them squirm.

[digdeeper]

TORTURE TORTURE TORTURE TORTURE

No other name for it.

[CML96]

So there you have it folks, the republican "leadership" has finally admitted -- they are the party of Terrorists.

Way to go, John!!!!!!

[LemonMeringue]

Hmmmm, renaming something with an inflammatory, suggestive label.

Isn't that propaganda?

[breakingnews3]

So now the GOP is admitting that the Bush Administration was a Terrorist Organization? WTG!!

[kappa08]

SHOW THEM AND MARINATE IN YOUR SHAME AMERICAN ENABLERS OF STUPIDITY.­..

[auntiecairo]

I agree with Boehner - Republicans are terrorists!

[whocan]

Its about time you guys

[bygollymissmolly]

This is proof positive that everyone in the GOP lost at least 30 percentage IQ points when President Obama was elected. They really didn't think this one through. They are saying that our US military are terrorists since they are the ones who did the deed and took the pictures.

That is one thing I will never understand. Why in the hell did they photograph the ugly things they were doing to the detainees? I do realize that those who are responsible for the policies should be held accountable, but I also want all the grunts who performed these acts and took the pictures to also be held accountable. We know for a fact that they could have said "no, I won't participate in something like that", because several soldiers have said that they refused to participate.