Isn't it amazing how quickly torture headlines

[malaise]

have been replaced by swine flu. Reminds me of the avian flu and the West Nile mosquito a few years ago.

And Rumsfeld is counting the cash just when he needs a lawyer.

[tekisui]

1. New torture photos to be released next month.

I think the torture info is going to be steadily and regularly coming down the pike.

[Renew Deal]

21. But if everyone is killed, who will see the photos?

Exactly!

:shrug:

[TwilightZone]

2. Yep, another Bush Administration scam.

I'm sure Rumsfeld made out quite well after his company accepted millions to stockpile an ineffective "cure" to avian flu.

[malaise]

14. He's about to cash in again

:puke:

[midnight]

3. Now that you mention it, it is interesting. I find it almost as

interesting as a military compound announcing, last week, that a strain of virus was missing from their facility. http://nwoobserver.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/army-3-vials-of-virus-samples-missing-from-maryland-facility/

[malaise]

5. Thanks for that link

A friend of ours died from equine encephalitis in four days two decades ago.
Some people used to keep horses in a field before her complex. That was one hell of a shock.

[midnight]

8. That is so sad that something as innocent as horses accross

from your friends residence can cause such a loss.

[DainBramaged]

7. And that got poo pooed here.

[dem629]

4. The flu stories will go away when there's a car chase or a celeb goes into rehab.

[DainBramaged]

6. No one other than a few of us noticed

What a great way to distract America JUST when the heat is getting turned up.

[malaise]

12. Ding ding

The timing was impeccable

[depakid]

9. Not to worry, the torture outrage isn't going away...

On the contrary. More documents and photos will be released,and more and more people will speak out like, like Col. Wilkerson did last night.

[ColbertWatcher]

10. Tell me about it ...

... I posted a poll two days ago to see how everyone's local paper covered the latest crime committed by the GOP and ... well, look for yourself ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5519911&mesg_id=5519911

[MrDave]

11. Check this out:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/yes-inational-reviewi-we_b_191153.html

I hadn't heard about this, apologies if it's been discussed already.

[malaise]

13. PWNED

although I wish Begala and others would use the correct term hanged.
The CNN hacks are really nervous about torture. Candy is showing her striped colors. There is danger all around this - ah fuck off Candy, John King and Blitzer.

[Laelth]

27. Welcome to DU!

:dem:

-Laelth

[DainBramaged]

15. K&R for the panic queens here.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

16. Keep 'em distracted

Man have I got a load of stories about the Avian flu hoax. I kept trying to get my liberal "up in arms" panic stricken friends to wager on the "Avian Pandemic" but none of them would put their money on the table even as they were stocking up for the coming catastrophe.

Ah Bird flu we hardly knew ye'.

[Hanse]

17. I hate how news keeps getting replaced with more news.

It's like you can't just watch a news story sit there for a few days without it getting replaced by some new news.

[nashville_brook]

18. spot on.

some people's brains can't process more than one story at a time.

[The Straight Story]

20. I know, even Susan Boyle has taken a back seat now here over a deadly flu

what the hell is wrong with people being worried over health issues, especially here in the US where we all have health coverage???? :)

[Laelth]

28. Love the irony.

Sign of a mature liberal. You have come a long way.

:)

:dem:

-Laelth

[sufrommich]

26. Only one news story per month should be permitted. It's

only fair.

[Renew Deal]

19. lol

:rofl:

[seabeyond]

22. weekend. they will be back monday or tues with new stuff. n/t

[eleny]

23. People, not in power, can still go this far to change our focus

:scared: They're always out there.

It's why I try to hold my fire when I don't like something is Obama is doing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. I can chew and walk at the same time

can you?

News cycle

Once we get more releases we will get back to it

Oh and by the by, if this scare is the real thing... well I guess some folks will not even admit it

After all Peter (the WHO) has been warming us since at least 1996 about the Wolf (pandemic) mostly because we are overdue

We have one about every two generations... the last one was in 1968

[northernlights]

25. if it fizzles out, torture will return shortly

but if it turns into a pandemic, then a lot of people will be too sick to care about anything.

Most of what goes on happens behind the scenes anyway. The torture ball is rolling.

[L. Coyote]

29. No. It is surprisng the torture story was suppresed for so long though.

The outbreak of deadly flu is huge news, and important.

[Initech]

30. Yup. Swine flu is just the latest media distraction to keep us misinformed of what's really going on

[cliffordu]

31. Yep, Dial a Pandemic on the job.

[jules4truth]

32. "And Rumsfeld is counting the cash just when he needs a lawyer."

Considering how often the Republicans raised the terror threat level in order to cover bad press -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfJv6i5ih5k

- I don't consider it all that paranoid to suggest that it's suspicious that Rumsfeld is both getting a break from bad press while simultaneously making a profit due to this very overhyped swine flu.