It's long been my impression that sexual morality is the only morality for Republicans; the adultery commandment is apparently the sole directive that Moses brought down from the mountain or that God felt strongly about.

...the issue is not that someone committed a crime by leaking classified information; the issue is that criminal acts were classified by those who committed them. We can't let the administration obfuscate the issue with circuitous logic (anti-logic, really) that deflects blame on the leakers. It is the criminal acts themselves that must be investigated and brought to light.

If we must repeat this message using the same single-minded, moronic, stay-on-message methods that the administration uses to ignore facts and principles and morality, we should do so. The person sworn to uphold our Constitution cannot be allowed to subvert it under cover of classification... and we cannot remain silent.

...shouldn't we extend the same principles to our government, which is "of the people, for the people, and by the people?"

I am truly speechless. This is the army that our Commander-in-Chief says is spreading our self-righteous American democracy to the Middle East; the army that is making people "free". Imagine the atrocities that we have not and may never hear about. If George Bush were a private citizen, I think we could present enough evidence to have him confined as a danger to himself and others. Since he is not a private citizen, I say "impeach, impeach, impeach!"

I suggest we all read (or re-read) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and I wonder if Card's story was the inspiration for this instance of our government's cynical exploitation of children. To me, Ender's Game paints (in fiction) an accurate picture of our society's long-standing willingness to exploit, subvert, and defile children. As individuals, most of us have accepted the sacrifice as long as it is not our personal sacrifice; as one example, we have been willing to draft the children of others as we protect our own (a la George H. W. Bush). We have long been willing to tolerate the abuse and hunger of children other than ours so long as we can keep it out of our sight and consciousness and away from our own children.

The thought that it might have been my child who learned to disregard human suffering and dignity at Abu Ghraib is abhorrent to me; that it was anyone's child grieves me; and that our military fostered the subversion of these young people in my name disgusts and repels me. This "game" also disgusts and repels me. It is nothing more than the subtlest of propaganda, designed to come in under the radar of those who might object to it or wish to protect their children from its influence and to ensnare those who have the most to lose.

I believe that each of us has been complicit in the abuse that we suffered, which is not to say that we caused it or deserved it, simply that we must collaborate with the abuser for the abuse to continue. Facing my collaboration with those who abused me has freed me to move on; identifying with those who abused me has allowed me to feel compassion for them and for myself; acknowledging my participation in my own abuse has given me the wherewithal to stop perpetuating it, to stop abusing myself, and to let my abusers know that I will no longer collaborate -- only they will suffer the consequences of further attempts to abuse me because I have stopped playing.

""Insert this artificial hymen into your vagina carefully" – which is odd, because the hymen isn't inside the vagina..." has me baffled. Where else would it be?

See what Helen Philpott (age 82), has to say on the subject. . .