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"); document.write(" Janet Evans wrote:"); document.write("

");document.write("It must be sad to live in Tom Sears little world of under-educated, uninformed right-wing Neo-con militancy.

He relentlessly cheer-leaded the administration and GOP Congress that brought this country to the brink of ruin and decimated our worldwide standing with a breathtakingly inane foreign policy.

Now that we have new leadership this all-knowing one has the gall to comment negatively on the newly-installed President who inherited a global mess exacerbated by the very heores he continues to worship in his pathetic state of denial.

Its all good though, its nice to have a face and name to put with this woeful ignorance. Keep up the column Mr. Sears, and whatever you do, keep tuned to Fox News and rabid right-wing radio.

It's obvious you've never had another source of current events or political news in your adulthood, which is portrayed by your sadly-limited knowledge in each column.

Bravo! Denial must help you assuage that gnawing sub-conscious under-current wherein you know you've been wrong, the proof is in the current state of affairs in this country, but are too ashamed to admit it.

Its because of people like you that Sarah Palin actually has a stage to spew her nonsense.");document.write("

"); document.write(" June 11, 2009, 4:41 PM"); document.write("
"); document.write(" Tom Sears wrote:"); document.write("

");document.write("Hi, I'm Tom Sears. And I'm upset. At least my anger can be assuaged by watching libtards squirm when confronted about lying. It reinforces my stereotypes that liberals are all liars. Nevermind that the program she's lying about was formulated and carried out at the request of Bush and Cheney and has discredited our commitment to defending human rights, or increased possible recruiting for terrorists, or hardened the resolve of terrorists who would rather fight to the death or commit suicide rather than be captured by US forces who may torture them, all I care about is whether this liberal lied... and how outstanding a citizen Cheney is. But only liberal score-settlers would want an investigation. This isn't some banana republic like colombia or guatemala, where you can try to prosecute human rights violators. This is the US of A, where war criminals and the like can get away with atrocities because us tough guys in the media think that the US is above the law.");document.write("

"); document.write(" June 10, 2009, 1:26 PM"); document.write("
"); document.write(" Jeremy wrote:"); document.write("

");document.write("That you feel more comfortable attacking Pelosi than those who actually approved the techniques demonstrates the degree to which you are entrenched in right vs left, rather than morally acceptable and morally reprehensible mindset. You'd rather watch some uncomfortable scapegoat lie because it fulfills some sort of conservative shadenfreude than see the people who planned and bullied in order to have the techniques implemented brought before a truth commission? Because you don't think waterboarding or sleep deprivation is torture?

I disagree, as does anyone who respects the Geneva Conventions or the Convention Against Torture, but even if you don't believe that those techniques are torture, what do you have to say about the detainees who have been tortured to death in abu ghraib and other facilities?

Also, Cheney signed off on the use of enhanced interrogation on Zubaydah. Soufan (FBI), who interrogated Zubaydah using standard interrogation practices said they recovered the actionable intelligence BEFORE enhanced interrogation techniques were used.

Kariakou stated that Zubaydah caved after roughly 30 seconds of waterboarding. We now know that it was not one session but over 90 over the duration of a month. We also know that the CIA destroyed 92 video tapes depicting the interrogations of Zubaydah because they were unsure of the legal implications.

We also know that there was intense pressure from Bush and Cheney to get the techniques accepted and that deputy attorney general James Comey referred to one of the destroyed video tapes as proof of the barbarity of the techniques. Too bad they were destroyed, right?

Considering that evidence is now overwhelming that we were lied into the Iraq war, and by extension disregarded our commitment to the constitution and the treaties we have signed, how is it that you can whine your ass off about left and right when it is clear that both are complicit to some degree and the only way to resolve this clusterf*ck is to investigate everyone involved?

Why are you so afraid of the truth?");document.write("

"); document.write(" June 10, 2009, 1:07 PM"); document.write("
"); document.write("Anonymous");document.write("

");document.write("Everyone wants their team to win, but honest republicans, like Colin Powell and Tom Ridge, have long ago come to terms with the fact that the neoconservatives led by George Bush and Dick Cheney are not republicans in any meaningful way. The neoconservatives have served no political philosophy but the advancement of their own personal power, without regard for the cost to anyone but themselves.

When China is able to lecture America on civil rights, personal privacy and international justice, something has gone badly wrong in America. And so men of integrity have reluctantly stepped forward to say 'enough,'.

Tom Sears isn't one of those republicans of integrity. He's still in there cheering for his team, making up ever more convoluted excuses to excuse their behaviour. To do otherwise would be to admit he was wrong to support them in the first place. Perhaps we can expect no better from a small-school accountant, but unfortunately there are a lot like him. It's sad really.");document.write("

"); document.write(" June 9, 2009, 9:55 PM"); document.write("
"); document.write(" Jimmy wrote:"); document.write("

");document.write("Here's a simple solution I know Mr. Sears won't agree with but will make sense to anyone else: prosecute those who authorized torture, then investigate who else was briefed about torture and did nothing. If Pelosi knew about torture and could have done something about it without breaking the law, prosecute her. Mr. Sears somehow attacks Pelosi for possibly being briefed about torture while letting Cheney off the hook for possibly authorizing the torture in the first place. That's some incredible logic. I can't say that I've watched Jay Leno or Jimmy Fallon's shows recently, but if they're doing Pelosi jokes they must really be scraping the bottom of the barrel for material. In any case, I think Mr. Sears should lay off the late night television. If you've got to use those shows to justify your views, maybe you should take a long hard look at what you really believe in.");document.write("

"); document.write(" June 9, 2009, 3:14 PM"); document.write("
"); document.write(" Geo wrote:"); document.write("

");document.write("Dick Cheney has been consistently wrong; wrong about Iraq, wrong about energy, wrong about WMDs, wrong about the efacacy and morality or torture, and pretty much everything else he has come out of his hole to comment on. To believe that he is now correct is ludicrous. Also, to believe the CIA lied to congree isn't much of a stretch. This back to Iran-Contra. The CIA routinely misled congress about sales of arms to Iran and funneling of money to the Contras. The republicans lost the election. Dick Cheney should be off somewhere fishing or shooting his friends in the face.");document.write("

"); document.write(" June 9, 2009, 10:05 AM"); document.write("

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