IOKIYAR

--> I was more than a little outraged at the hypocritical, self-righteously indignant outrage the voiced by the wingnuts about the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee' use of images of our fallen but not forgotten soldiers coming home in a box covered by Old Glory, especially when they had proudly used pictures of dead victims from 9/11 to promote the President's reelection two years ago.

Especially grating is that since the last election season we have fresh memories of the Coultergeist's vile slap at the Jersey Girls who supposedly relished in the death of their husbands, or the dismissive and unsympathetic attacks against Michael Berg, the father of civilian Nicholas Berg who was beheaded in Iraq, egged on by the likes of Fox News' hatemonger-in-chief, Sean Hannity.

Now, Via KOS, our illustrious representative from Southwestern Ohio's 8th Congressional District, Minority Leader John Boehner, has tried to explain through the Cincinnati Enquirer just why IOKIYAR.

Questioned by reporters on what the difference was, Boehner seemed tongue-tied. "These were American citizens killed by terrorists. That is a very different policy issue than American soldiers dying on the battlefield protecting the rights and freedoms of American people."

"How so?" a reporter asked.

"How so? You want me to describe the difference between men and women of the military out there defending the American people, and victims - victims - of terrorist activities?" Boehner asked.

"They were both killed by opponents, right? Terrorists or Islamic insurgents?" a reporter pressed.

An exasperated Boehner said: "The World Trade Center victims were victims of a terrorist act here on our shore and I think all Americans were appalled that this did in fact happen. But I think the differences, in terms of the images, are as clear as night and day."

Clear as mud is more like it.  The GOP line is saying that it's ok to remind us in stark imagery what the cost of the War on Terra is:

• A: as long as we're only showing civilian casualties?
  
• B: as long as we're only showing civilian casualties killed here?
• C: as long as we're only showing bona fide American civilians killed here? 

ANSWER:  None of the above.  It's only okay to show flag draped coffins to support the Republican Party.  All other deaths are to be catalogued, indexed, and flushed down the memory hole.

UPDATE:  Somehow I missed, but should have guessed, that Mike DeWine has been hammering Sherrod Brown with similar 9//11 images, which the little whimp has already pulled (H/T=Tapped).