So, you hate and fear Jews (I won't argue with you there), and you are impervious to facts.

That combination makes you irrational and obsessed about Jews.

That makes you antisemitic.

Got it?

Indeed. Which makes his obsession with a single opening sentence quite bizarre really. If mildly entertaining.

The political and upper classes protect their own, so you can bet that Bush and Co. will never see the inside of a court room. All that Congress and the Obama Justice Department will do is maybe hold some toothless fact-finding special committees that will issue reports that no one will use for anything.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

--Adolf Hitler

My, that sounds an awful lot like a poster here who keeps talking about how might makes right. Not surprising, really. Those who admire totalitarianism and the worship or power -- and their concomitant torture and lawlessness -- always sound alike. Across centuries and continents, they are all pretty much the same.

The phrase, "You're full of shit" doesn't carry much weight when it is written by someone who has posted 4,300 LETTERS ON SALON.COM.

Just sayin'.

"Justice is subjective in the US, as it is in the rest of the world. Which of the two Presidents mentioned above deserves to be behind bars most? It's hard to say. Bush had the decency to have his attorney general say that torture was legal. Then again, Clinton had the decency to commit the rape himself, rather than delegating it to others".

Bush can have the Pope declare torture legal but it doesn't matter. The problem with that is explained pretty well in Glenn's column.

Clinton left office with a 60+ percent popularity rating. Compare that to Bush. The American public has made its decision as to what is more important - Thousands killed and wounded in an unecessary war or an unproven rape rumor.

do you gals and guys know that America elected a new President?

Can you imagine?!

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Okay now as PDA (I really dig this dude) would say: Carry on!!

We can see the overwhelming representation of Jews in our media today. We can see the overwhelming influence of Jews in our financial industry today. We can see the overwheling influence of Jews in our foreign policy and defense establishment today.

I can knock your whole fershluggener theory into a cocked hat with one question, Steeleowitz! If Jews are so high-and-mighty how come I only ever got one (1) day off school for Hannukah?, if that? And for High Holy Days, the Yom Kippur, the Rosh HaSha'na we got bupkis!!! (That means "nothing", Steele)

Jews, you say were running everything, and they can't get me a lousy couple of days off school? Feh!

"Japan was already defeated and dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary."

These are neither the words of a Japanese, nor of a self-loathing lefty Californian revisionist terrorist-supporter, nor of a man unschooled in the realities of war (and particularly THAT war).

These are the words of 5-Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and future president of the United States.

Because Eisenhower knew, as did the entire senior U.S. officer corps, that by the middle of 1945 Japan was utterly defenseless. The afore-mentioned firebombings of Tokyo and Osaka are substantial evidence of this proposition, as is the same complete lack of any capability to prevent the nuke attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air [space]."

--Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces.

"The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan."

--Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

"The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender."

--Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to President Truman.

Ironically, it was largely Truman who was cheerleader for the revisionist cause, inventing the "saving a million american lives" meme (lie) which you so thoughtlessly alluded to. Just another example of your President worshipping idiocy.

You are an ignorant asshole, but it is not your being an asshole that offends me, it is that your ignorance could be so easily cured if you wanted to cure it. But you prefer to remain in your state of belligerent stupidity because you think it affords you the opportunity to feel superior to people you have never met, who live on the other side of the world, and who dress and talk funny. Well, idiot, you are wrong about that, too. You are not superior to them in any way.

RE: 60% approval rating?

So you're saying that justice is based on approval rating?

Dude, you're making my point about subjectivity and selective enforcement. Bush had 90% approval rating while the Patriot act was being crafted.

And, Obama wants to maintain his popularity, which is why there will be no serious follow-up.

"I suspect that I forgot more military and political history"

If these symptoms continue, make an appointment with your doctor. There are pharmaceuticals that can forestall the complete loss of your faculties, but it seems like time is running out.

Just sayin'.

-- steveindallas

It would depend on what one was "just sayin". Now wouldn't it? You've written about a dozen pages on "Salon.com". You haven't said shit. I've written quite a bit on Glenn Greenwald's blog. Very little on anywhere else on "Salon.com". Some of what I have said was worth "sayin'". Some of it is up for grabs. Either way, you've, again, said nothing.

Elephantman

Have you ever heard of the Geneva Conventions?

You keep making the same point every day in this giggly self-satisfied way: Hey, how can it be OK to kill people but not torture them?

Do you understand that under the Geneva Conventions and every other convention of war, it's OK to kill combatants but, once you capture them, it's not OK to torture them?

What you think is this hilarious contradiction -- "hey, they think it's OK to kill someone but not torture them! LOL!!" -- happens to be the core of Western precepts of justice governing war. Do you understand that?

As for what KSM did, are you able to read the following provision in the treaty signed by Ronald Reagan and comprehend any of it:

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

In your own words, go ahead and say what you understand that to mean?

-- GlennGreenwald

Good. We're getting somewhere.

KSM is a matter of war-fighting and not law enforcement.

KSM, an illegal combatant, is also outside the Geneva Convention.

Further, Eric Holder's scripted P.R. song-and-dance with Pat Leahy in the course of a committe hearing hardly has the force of law.