Some people are just plain thick.

-- Jebbie

And some people, while relishing the role of mother hen, fail to realize that they don't actually rule the roost. Bwak bwak!

This regime is nothing if not supremely incompetent.

-- Jeffrey P. Harrison

While true, I believe it is dangerous to leave it at that. Most Americans can and will forgive incompetence simply because many of them are equally as stupid and incompetent.

BushCo is evil. That is a fact. Perhaps if we point that out consistently, people will be less forgiving.

Americans want, by large margins, to set a timetable to withdraw from Iraq unconditionally -- not if we're winning, not if things are improved, not if we've created a stable democracy, but regardless of those issues.

SO?

How does it feel UT readers? How does it feel to know that politicians (of both parties btw) and the establishment media are laughing at you? They can hardly contain themselves. Cokie Roberts attempts to suppress a giggle at the thought that the American people's opinion matters. Kristol's constant smirk. These two assholes that Glenn writes about today, in effect telling us that what the media wants to report on is what we actually want to see and here.

They are laughing at us and rightfully so. It's not as though we have given them any reason not to.

Please note that I'm not criticizing Diaz. I think he's a champion of the human spirit, a paragon of moral courage and a shining example of true patriotism. But what criteria are we going to use to determine which laws should be upheld and which should be ignored? And why is our side allowed to decide when it's okay to break the law when theirs isn't? -- Ufansius

What? Our side? Who is saying Diaz shouldn't have had to suffer some form of punishment for "breaking the law?" I have no idea if Diaz actually broke the law. I simply don't know the law, but if exposing the King's crimes is, in and of itself, a crime then I suppose he did. One thing is for certain though - he paid (is paying) the price for his actions. Just like MLK knowingly broke laws specifically set up to keep certain segments of humanity from their inalienable rights, Diaz broke the law for a just reason. Because of his actions we may eventually decide to change an atrocious "law" that seemingly has evolved to serve no other purpose than to protect power.

Do you think we will ever see criminals like the BushCo cabal pay the price for their crimes? As I see it, that is the important distinction here. Sometimes you have to knowingly sacrifice, which Diaz did. He knew if he was caught he would potentially be subject to punishment and yet he still did the correct thing. If Bush and his murderous torturing cohorts truly thought they were doing what was the just and correct thing then why spend all that energy trying to subvert precedent and change the law in their favor? Did Diaz try to change the law before he took action? Probably not, but then he really didn't have the time or the power to either. To bad folks like you and me and Diaz can't issue our own signing statements - to bad we can't make it up as we go along. To bad Diaz couldn't just say, "Hey I am the king, I am the law" like BushCo does eh? Then he wouldn't have had to suffer any consequences, much like Bush and his minions never will.

I don't know about everyone else here, but I am and always have been on the side of the wedding party and the shoppers at the Apple Store. And I would say that the people who set up that clusterf*ck ought to be put in jail for the rest of their lives. -- peterbgillis

Amen to that.

For the record, since it seems important to some of you, I am Rex Guinn, a Commander and judge advocate in the Navy.

Very interesting.

Commander,

The term Hero is overused no doubt but, just to give you the opinion of a fellow American (me), I would call Diaz a hero. I have the feeling you will disagree but I do believe that anyone who attempts to shed light on the unAmerican, illegal and immoral actions and policies of the festering evil that is BushCo, is an hero. Classified info/"state secrets" be damned. If those secrets are aiding and abetting an evil imperial enterprise then I say it is a good thing they are exposed. This is a greater issue that is not often discussed. If our government's secrets help maintain the system and methods we use to torture, "dissapear," murder, overthrow, meddle or otherwise oppress, then why should those secrets be protected? We are not exceptional. We are not better. We prove it every day.