" ... Also, ... why did he wait almost three full years before disclosing it, and then do so only when compelled by the threat of a subpoena? ... Why did he not invoke the whistleblower channels to report this lawbreaking ..."

The short answer is that going up against a crime family as slimy, vengeful, and strong as the Bush crime family takes a lot of guts. (and he does not have any)

... That Klein and Time continue to churn out shoddy, gullible "journalism" is hardly news. ...

That is true; no augment from me. What I want to know is, what news organization can you say is not doing this? Where could the average fellow go to see or read decent and fair news coverage?

... he GOP debate in South Carolina two weeks ago was something of a watershed moment in American politics. It really was like watching a debate between Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Reynolds and Michael Savage -- with the LGF commenters as the audience, cheering most boisterously for the most extreme warmongering, pro-torture and pro-lawless-detention sentiments. ...

Now how am I to sleep at night with that image in my head? You could have written all day without writing that. :-)

... "I don't support attacks on any civilians", but "I do support attacks on Israeli civilians" unless the word civilian means two different things to them in the two questions? ...

I have the notion that, to an Israeli, Arabs are simply not fully human. Important Israeli Rabbis (and some of my co-workers) attest to the this proposition.

Arabs return the sentiment; odd that, eh?

...After amending that to read "some Israelis" you would have to acknowledge that the converse is probably true to some degree. ...

I would amend it to "most" Israelis until I see polling that shows me otherwise; and, I mentioned that "Arabs return the sentiment; odd that, eh?" in my post.

It would have been much cheaper (and morally correct) to have just purchased the land needed from the humans that owned it. USAians have little room to point fingers given the genocide of the local natives in this country. In some ways the state of Israel is only following in our (USA) footsteps --- kill the bastards that are in your way and blame them for being there. Then play the victim and accuse the downtrodden of scalping your women.

L.W.M.:Good luck sorting that out but IngSoc is correct. I think the absentee landlords would have been Turks from the old Ottoman empire...

I wonder, does buying land stolen by Turks makes one the legal owner? It does in America --- land stolen from the natives can be legally purchased.

That aside, are you saying that Jewish groups purchasing perhaps 5% of Palestine entitled them to take it all? That seems wrong to me. It also seems wrong to many Jewish groups that I read.

For example: http://www.btselem.org/English/Settlements/

Now B'Tselem is not totally unbiased (who is?) but I understand them to not believe that the State of Israel was "purchased" from the people who had lived there for around two millennium. They further seem to be saying that human rights violations are bordering on the extreme as we pontificate here.

You wrote in italics:

"If you are asked if you support attacks against civilians, the assumption is that these are foreign civilians. ... If you are in the USA, though, and asked about al Qaeda, and you say you favor them, ultimately you favor attacks on your own neighbors."

Then you answered yourself.

Fine by me; but why did you address it to me with "@bucky1" as if I had written those words? You were not quoting me, as I am pretty positive that does not sound like anything I have written anywhere on the net. Certainly not in this thread.