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If you still wish to argue that the Democratic Party represents anything significantly different from the other party of unrestrained empire and state power, I'd love to hear that argument.

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Amidst Questions About Detainee Abuse Photos, Gibbs Assails the British Press
June 01, 2009 8:22 AM

Last week, the White House was asked about a report in the British press that Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba (Ret.), the lead investigator into the abuse at Abu Ghraib, said he'd seen the detainee abuse photographs that President Obama is fighting to keep from being released. Thursday's Daily Telegraph reported that Taguba said that the "pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency."

Taguba told Salon's Mark Benjamin that the newspaper applied his quote to the wrong photographs. The ones he'd seen showing abuse and rape were not the same ones in the ACLU lawsuit that President Obama is fighting to keep from being released. He had been referring to other ones he'd seen.

"The photographs in that lawsuit, I have not seen," Taguba said.

But before Taguba clarified why there was confusion, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs took the opportunity to go after the entire British press.

The story is totally and irresponsibly false, ladies and gentlemen, and the British media -- those fools! -- are beneath contempt. It is not X set of photographs that shows us raping children and torturing detainees -- it's Y set of photographs that show us raping children and otherwise torturing detainees. Much ado about nothing! Anyway, it's all the fault of the British press.

Robert Gibbs makes Scott McClellan look dignified.