Please consider creating a special mini site that serves the entire batch of media. It is necessary to disseminate this information on the internet as quickly as possible. Some would criticize the opening of old wounds here, but it is necessary for the American public to realize that they have been lied to about the extent of the abuse and also the higher officials' roles in all of this. The more you show the better. I have seen the Australian dateline report. It says it has received images via the ACLU's successful freedom of information act request. If all the U.S. media sources have these, why are they not printing them?

In the past I had helped to deliver donated foods to the poor people of the Appalachian hollers. They are America's poorest people and their plight and the plight of the land is a black spot on America's conscience. I would like to see a day in which we are not always on a defensive when it comes to "saving" or "conserving" America's green, America's nature. Why aren't we putting those who would strip the top of a mountain on the defensive. They are just a corporation with some employees. I say reclaim the land and the land their corporate offices are on. Start to take back, reclaim, undo. Make them spend all their time trying to defend their land against our encroachment. Everyone always talks of saving a species, or a plot of land, or cleaning up after these destroyers and polluters. Why wait until the damage is done? Why so defensive? Put them on defense.

Thank you very much for this well written article.

The magazine is called "Vanity" Fair. Please...get over it. Please, no more dumb articles about dumb magazines spewing dumb pop culture issues. You can't have it both ways Salon. This can't be both a smart political site and also concern yourself with vapid issues like the ones in this article. Spin this kind of crap off to another site and let it stand on it's own. I liken this junk to having a subscription to cable television, then having to support by proxy all the religious cannels like the 700 club. The vice president shoot someone, Paul Hacket drops out of the Ohio senate race, and your cover articles are nudes in Vanity Fair, and what stuff to buy on Valentines day. I understand you are in a 24 hour cycle, but it has been that long since Chenney smoked that lawyer. What do you take your readership for? A bunch of consumerist pop culture followers? You are mistaken. I will not support this with my dollars come time to renew if these trends continue.

p.s. I never received one issue of Wired with my subscription. Has anyone else? It didn't affect my decision to subscribe (I didn't even know it was a perk until after I signed up), but I thought nice...I'd like to get Wired in the mailbox. Never one issue. I went through the proper channels to correct this. Nothing. No response. Why offer something then not deliver? I would have rather you didn't offer in the first place.

Oh that's right. I don't even have health insurance. Not only that, but I imagine if I had shot my hunting partner...I would be subjected to a toxicology test, and would probably be arrested until the details are sorted out. The separation between the rulers and the ruled is very wide.

The "evil" despots, who are the bane to U.S. national security, are dictators whose governments are barely hanging on by a thread. Saddam stated his reason for all the empty rhetoric and threats were to disguise his own weakness. If we look at the threats of North Korea, Iran, and others as those of a fearful and terminal regime, we find strength in our own position. Kim Jong Ill's days as leader in North Korea are numbered. Iran's people are slowly awakening to the change that is inevitable in their country and do not desire to be ruled by a fundamentalist theocracy. The time for hawks is when a dangerous ideology is consolidating power and is on the rise in direct threat to our nation. Iran, Al Qaeda, North Korea, oppressive Chinese governments etc... are all waning entities. Saber rattling on our part only strengthens these weak governments as it polarizes the constituents of a nation into a unified self defense. Use the United States as your example.

Democrats, like the Republicans, are not reflective of the American people, but are reflective of the entity which compels them. Business. The military industrial complex. When hopeful candidates for office are compelled to address the issues of this complex, this is of it's design. Eisenhower coined the term "military industrial complex" in his speech of 1961. He also said, "The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

These aggressive war posturing policies are costing us in American lives and in our economy. When we spend money on "star wars" missile defense, preemptive strikes, and "regime changes" this is money that would be spent on the American public. It is why you don't have health care. Corporate backed, military industry tied, conservative think tanks like the Project for the New American Century are setting the agenda and democrat candidates are falling in line lock step. When the question is "how hawkish?" and there isn't a dove in sight, who profits? When both parties are saber rattling, who profits? Exactly. Now you are starting to peek behind the curtain.

Within your interpretation of the broad expansion of Presidential power, does the president have the right to dissolve Congress? Not does he want to, simply can he?

And anyone else who has the courage to speak his or her mind and to stand up to the oppresive fascists of this world. Print the cartoons you cowards.