"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

[arnray]

And who produces "terrorist propaganda"? Terrorists. And who is responsible for producing those photos? The Bush administration. Ipso facto - they are admitting that the Bush administration was run by terrorists.

[dzymzlzy]

Was thinking the exact same thing. But Republicans are not exactly known for being logical, and their followers are not exactly known for their attention to facts, details and nuance.

[Michael Valentine]

That will make everything much better because if you can reelable a thing that offends people then that thing will no longer offend. A renamed rose smells not.

[confidance government]

So the terrorists were behind this photo op? Oh, ok well I guess then we can all forget about.....­.

[jimbeaux1961]

Well, if they're "Terrorist Propaganda Tools", whose policies PRODUCED them?

[We-Are-The-Ones]

Call it what you want. It shows torture.

And, doesn't the GOP have anything else to do besides come up with new words for turtore?

[hrholmes]

Sounds familiar like Clean Air Act or Patriot Act, acts that were neither clean nor patriotic. This evidence would have been out years ago if it were saying German on Jew torture or Commie on citizen torture with no complaints except of course for the guilty parties like in this case the Republicans and our military. Why is this issue of war crimes even being debated, let's get on with a special prosecutor and open trials if we really are Americans anymore.

[DullKnife]

What keeps geing lost in this debate (intentionally or not) is that Gitmo and Abu Ghraib are two totally different things. Even if you subscribe to the fallacy of Gitmo being for the "worst of the worst", why is it acceptable to do this to the Iraqi population? Abu Ghraib was Saddam's torture palace, and then we made it ours. We are not at war with the Iraqi people, we "liberated" them. Then we arrested them and tortured them and then we set them free.
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This just exposes the true thought process of the Neo-confederates: All brown people are bad, and brown muslims want to kill us all so we need to set them straight as to our superiority or we will slaughter them. Equating the two is intellectually dishonest and inflammatory.
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These people are disgusting.

[olmossy]

It just gives easily digested ' WinSpeak' to their base. Rush will use it ,and thousands of GOPrs will be using in to " win " a discussion at the water cooler tommorrow.

Some GOPrs Senator will use it on Faux News and a thousand sheep will bleet, Yeah! what he said!

Truth and Justice may be produced in DC. But that was never the intent.

[Scent]

- They also name themselves the ones who defended us when we were attacked under their rule and many say by some of them.
- They name electrovution a physical treatment to cure bad back.
- They name waterboarding taking a swim.
- They name people asking uncomfortable questions supporters of terrorists.
- They name THEIR terrorists heroes
- They name Iraq a success.
- They name lying to the people politics.
- They name killing giving freedom.

What else is new?

[FightTheLies]

And all this time I thought pictures of the Republican party were the "Terrorist Propaganda Photos". Oh nevermind. That's their base that they keep feeding lies fear and hate into.

[serialcoma]

There is no place in a civilized society for republicans.

[ProfessorDuh]

An awful lot of people are just terrified of the truth coming out. Why is that?
If you have nothing to hide. you have nothing to worry about, right? Isn't that what Republicans always say when they're busy justifying police-state spying on American citizens, while they're taking a break from justifying torture, invasion and rape?

[serialcoma]

Repubs are the enemies of a free, prosperous, healthy and educated USA.... never doubt that.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

My faher told me something like that 36 yeras ago and he never graduated high school.

[murly]

So...it wasn't doing it that puts us in danger, it was taking pictures of it? That does not resemble our earth logic. The world already knows what we did. Releasing the pictures, acknowledging the wrongdoing, and punishing the wrongdoers would go a long way in making us safe because it would show that we are no longer the arrogant, hypocritical bullies that the Bush administration would have us be. That cowboy mentality is what made even our allies dislike us. If we did the right thing, we would regain the respect that we lost during those years.

[hrholmes]

The right thing would end up with them all in prison and they can't go for that.

[shanester]

Repugs have nothing to offer except hate and fear mongering!