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Why do Feinstein and Wyden sound much different on the torture issue now?

The two Senators spent the year emphatically insisting that the CIA's interrogators comply with the Army Field Manual. With Democrats in control, they're not so emphatic any longer

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  • Friday, December 5, 2008 02:28 PM

    one last one on this thread

    It is the idea that is king. It is the idea that lost. It is educating the masses to what has happened to them that will bring real change.

    All I have seen out of the left for years is support of abortion, support of the global warming myth, and asking for more wealth redistribution. That is certainly better than the fear-mongering on the right, but it does not sell to the broad middle of 'normal' people.

    The horrors that this government has done over the last 50 years is amazing to those who really study history. And yet, the general population only knows the myths learned as children for the most part.

    My friends, until the masses awaken to the truth (god knows who will tell them) we will see change --- but it will not be for the better.

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