They don't call it their 'silver bullet' for nothing.
They will dig dirt on the and anything related as long as they can.
Remember, they vetted GWB's National Guard service in 2000, and they've done it twice in 2004, each time getting a good week or more of negative PR.
As long as they can keep any negative PR going on the Iraqi prison abuse scandal, tney will. And why not, the other side is staying quiet and letting them.
Excerpt:
Senate wants Gitmo 'torture' videos, too
By Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
Published 5/19/2004 8:01 PM
Videotapes that ex-inmates say show guards beating prisoners at the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been reviewed by the inspector general of the Navy and will be provided to senate investigators, a military spokesman told United Press International.
U.S. officials insist that detainees are treated and interrogated humanely at Guantanamo and that any abuse is immediately reported and punished. Nonetheless, news of the existence of the tapes raises the prospect of more images of alleged U.S. brutality emerging, broadening and deepening the scandal over what Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called the "radioactive" pictures of detainees being abused at the now twice-notorious Abu Ghraib prison complex in Iraq.
One set of the Guantanamo allegations centers on the actions of the Immediate Response Force, a special team of guards tasked to deal with detainee misconduct and violence. In recent media interviews and letters to U.S. senators, three Britons who were held at the camp until their release in March 2004 described several incidents in which they say the team savagely assaulted inmates.
I wonder if they might not have overplayed their hand. We shall see. I think the fact that the "abuse scandal" did not have the legs they imagined it would nor the seemingly small damage it caused Bush may bear my notion out.
But you are right - the GOP needs to understand what Nancy boys they look like in their inability to react in a united and rigorous counter attack.