On torture: (It's God, stupid) the current stink wouldn't be happening if our techniques "worked" and had saved a thousand American lives and five thousand Iraqi lives. The confusion about interrogating prisoners comes from the atheism of most of our legislators who are a million miles away from what it is like to be a person of total faith in a God. There are very few people left in this country who believe with a passion. Opus Dei in the Catholic Church and a few Christian fundalmentalists, both banned from any position in government, would let us know that there are people who Believe and they can't be tortured into revealing anything. Joan of Arc, anyone?

And the hearings? Everything but hoods and white robes as these despicable political reptiles slither from one non-subject to the next. I cannot stand the Democrats.