Interesting read at the Plum Line ...
Greg Sargent asked Boehner's office to comment on the news that House Dems have decided to support allowing Gitmo detainees to be tried in U.S. courts. This was the response:
“We still have not seen a comprehensive plan for how the Administration plans to deal with the detainees in Cuba. That’s what the American people expect and deserve. They don’t want politicians cutting deals behind closed doors to proceed in a slapdash, ad hoc fashion. Certainly not on important issues like bringing these detainees to the United States, or releasing terrorist propaganda photos.”
It would be interesting to track the use of the phrase "terrorist propaganda photos" over the next few weeks as this drama unfolds. My guess is that it's part of a fairly well-organized effort to quash the photos, call their content into question and associate anyone wishing to have them released with terrorist sympathizers.
You know, par for the course.
But it isn't the "terrorists" taking these photos, it's members of the U.S. armed forces.
Whose side are they on, anyway?
Among the graphic statements, which were later released under US freedom of information laws, is that of Kasim Mehaddi Hilas in which he says: “I saw [name of a translator] ******* a kid, his age would be about 15 to 18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn’t covered and I saw [name] who was wearing the military uniform, putting his **** in the little kid’s ***…. and the female soldier was taking pictures.”
Note the last part of the last sentence.
Now we're supposed to want to protect these monsters from justice because opinion of them might become inflamed and put them at risk?
They deserve to be at risk, because they're immoral cowards.
Terrorist propaganda photos? Tell Boehner what you think about his cute new lie.