For the person who noted that we haven't declared war, sheesh, when's the last time we declared war? Wasn't it World War II?

Exactly the fucking problem. Since the last time we have "declared war", we have engaged in a police action in Korea, overthrown the lawful government of Iran, sent the Marines into the Dominican Republic, lost 58,000 troops in Vietnam, invaded Laos and Cambodia, invaded Panama and killed between 2,000 and 20,000 civilians in order to arrest Manuel Noriega (Bush's cocaine smuggling sidekick), illegally mined the harbors of Nicaragua and supported the Contras, shipped arms to Iran, waged proxy war with Iran via Saddam Hussein, invaded Grenada, put Marines in Lebanon, invaded Iraq twice and Afghanistan once ALL without benefit of any declaration of war, cause God knows we don't want to make politicians accountable.

Your dismissal of the obligation to declare war before waging war reeks of calling the Geneva Conventions quaint. The US is a vast lawless empire, repleat with torture chambers, Blackwater mercenaries and lame excuses of exigency. And Obama appears to be going along to get along.

told the world he loved me . . . it would make my skin crawl. Jindal . . . probably not so much.

like a pretty goddam good compliment!

Crawl back in yer holes, ye Republican scum, the hour of reckoning is upon ye!!!

He was down to the low 200's not that long ago . . . now he's clearly over 300 and picking up speed.

Is he aware that gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins?

I strongly urge them to support Toomey in his primary run against Arlen Specter. Every moderate Republican an/or independent voter who has supported Specter for years will run . . . NOT WALK! ... to the Democratic Party standard.

thanks to a infected boil on his massive rear end.

Fladad, I've had my 401(k) and my Roth IRA in cash earning 3% for the last year, so I'm just waiting for the bottom to buy back in.

As for the property values on my house - a stone prairie style home in Kansas City - it was never overvalued, so the minor drop in valuation we've experienced here in the Midwest means if I sell it, I still make a profit.

As for blaming Obama, knock yourself out, lap up that Limbaugh flavored Kool-Aid and and join the 20% deadenders who still think George Bush doesn't deserve life at hard labor in Leavenworth.

Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with, with geometric logic, that, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist.

we already have a system set up to investigate, indict, try and convict the torturers and their enablers. It's called the criminal justice system. It's managed to put 2,000,000 Americans behind bars, many of them for committing such heinous acts as selling marijuana.

How many torturers are there . . . coupla of dozen?? No problem finding room for those bastards.

And, better yet, unlike with the truth commission which the Republicans can obstruct, delay and harrass, the asshole Republicans in Congress can't interfere with the criminal justice system, or they get charged with a felony!!

availble through the Departmenht of Justice: you know, grand jury investigations, indictments issued by the grand jury, followed by public arrests of the alleged perpetrators (including but not limited to Bush, Cheney, Addington, Yoo, Rumsfeld, Feith, et alii), trial by jury, sentencing, and imprisonment at hard labor in Leavenworth.

Truth commissions are for wimps; I want blood from these assholes.

Rove, a Pillsbury doughboy if I've ever seen one, has these manly credentials:

Hired by George Bush senior aged just 22, he started a lifelong association with the family. One of his menial jobs was to hand over the Bush car keys whenever George junior went to Washington. Mr Rove's description sounds like the start of a love affair. "I can literally remember what he was wearing," he said of an occasion in 1973: "an Air National Guard flight jacket, cowboy boots, blue jeans. He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have."

When he is finally incarcerated for his crimes, we can only hope he has as big a man-crush on his future cell-mate from the Aryan Nation.

some elementary estate planning could have avoided the tax. Could not Sonntag have created an irrevocable trust, placed the properties in the trust, and made Leibowitz the successor trustee and/or beneficiary of the trust upon Sonntag's death?

Yeah, the boys and girls staffing the barricades for Obama may not PERSONALLY order torture, ala Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush . . . but they sure as shit aren't doing much about correcting the problems.

The most irritating thing about the sleazoid Mr. Yoo is he ignores 400 years of history in his preposterous assertions regarding the power of the unitary executive. In 1648, Charles I made the very same claim: the King Can Do No Wrong.

Parliament disabused Charles I of this notion by lopping off his head in 1649. The Framers of the Constitution were well aware of the history of the English kings, and having just deposed a monarch, were in no fucking hurry to enthrone another.

The second most irritaitng thing about the disingenuous authoritarian pipsqueak is his invoking of exigent circumstances to justify executive power grabs.

Think again, Yoo: in 1988, Ronald Reagan signed the Convention Against TOrture. In 1994, Congress ratified the treaty, making it the law of the land. The Convention states clearly, with NO ROOM FOR MISUNDERSTANDING:

the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person . . .

No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.

What is it about no exceptional circumstances whatsoever does this asshole not understand?