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Bush  did <br>not have the moral courage to do that, being more concerned with I suppose  <br>with those flower-pilers/candle-holders.<br> <br>I wonder, in passing, whether your self-professed \"liberal\" views and  <br>obvious tender-hearted and genuine concern for \"innocents\" has made you a  <br>staunch anti-abortionist?  <br> <br> <br> <br>In a message dated 7/2/2009 8:38:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>darrelplant wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>Actually, you're  the one who doesn't seem to know your history. <br><br><br><br>We dropped more  bombs on Vietnam than were dropped during all of World War <br>II. We killed and  maimed hundreds of thousands of people and spent untold <br>billions of dollars,  for no particular reason. What did that get us? I take <br>it that you think we  should have just nuked Hanoi or something. What <br>exactly would that have  accomplished apart from killing even more people?<br><br><br><br>And what is  Iraq, chopped liver? Fallujah? You seem to think that was some <br>sort of  panty-waist operation. Shock and Awe sounds like it was <br>tailor-made for your  tastes. A million dead, four million refugees, and Michael <br>Scheuer still  thinks that's not enough. Of course, you're still avoiding the <br>question of why  anyone in their right mind would invade a country that had <br>nothing to do with  al Qaeda or 9/11 but then I guess in Scheuer-world once <br>you've dug a hole the  only way out is to keep digging.<br><br><br><br>And Afghanistan. Well, I  certainly remember my recent history about <br>Afghanistan. Especially the part  about the Soviet Union collapsing after spending <br>a decade trying to grind out  a CIA-sponsored fundamentalist Muslim <br>insurgency. Does that sound familiar to  you? What I can't understand is why anyone <br>would advocate for invading and  occupying (and killing) the entire country <br>instead of targeting al Qaeda  camps. But I'm sure you can once again avoid <br>that question as  well.<br><br>Link to comment:  <br><a href=\"http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12053974\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href=\"http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the <br>grill. (<a href=\"http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood0...</a>)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_21:00:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12053974, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But bin Laden did attack us, did he not? Did that attack make US defenses against such attacks better? It would seem not from your argument that there are at least as many problems with the defenses as there were before, so the sole rationale about your wishing for another attack would be mostly to prove that you were right. I mean, aside from all the dead people, of course.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:28:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "deba2a8e8c5c1ac711b40a061f6370a3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11992671, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12050113": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is your point to discuss or abuse?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_18:00:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12049760, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12044119": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scheuer, whatever the value of your positions may or may not be, you have to at least accept the fact that putting those positions forward on a platform like Beck's Surreal Circus of Insanity makes them immediately suspect.<br><br>Maybe you were not aware of or didn't know Beck's lack of any relationship with reality, but your continuing to use the frames and language you chose on Colmes' show merits you the types of responses you've received here.<br><br>And if you see no difference in the Obama approach to the Muslim world and the GOP's, maybe you do belong in the dimly-lit, violent Bizarro world of Glenn Beck, Dick Cheney, and Frank Gaffeney after all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_15:44:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Wellstone", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12027916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I have a lot of respect for Michael Scheuer.\"<br><br>Read the 9/11 report have ya ? The Looming Tower ? Any book about 9/11 ? <br>I know if Microsoft had been identified by everyone as the biggest reason 9/11 was allowed to happen because of BS inter-software company rivalries, I wouldn't open a post about Bill Gates with the sentence \"I have a lot of respect for Bill when it comes to CT efforts\".<br><br>Scheuer wouldn't be able to publish a book or be booked on a single talk show anywhere if 9/11 didn't happen. That whole Bin Laden Unit withholding identities of known al Qaeda planners entering the US from the FBI really turned out a treat for his media career, didn't it now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_08:26:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "0cf347742d88444d8a6ca83bd62fc16c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12069137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "riiiiigt.. and the first 9/11 happened... why?  We have only had two major terrorist attacks on US soil in my time.  One was on a Republicans administrations \"watch\" and the other was actually carried out by a Republican.  Right wingers are dangerous.  You should be far more concerned about them than about Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-03_09:06:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "9815cbf0e3707f8707bd516662b91f11", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11983772, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12035475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I did read \"Audacity\" and found it both well written and moving.  I  guess <br>I just believe that America should always come first, and that until we  <br>have everybody, fed, employed, and educated here at home we should not be going <br> adventuring overseas -- either militarily or foreign-aid wise.  The  point <br>I tried to make is we need to be better defended here at home if we are to  <br>be able to achieve those things the president writes about.  Security has  <br>to proceed social and economic progress, as we have seen proven in spades in <br> Afghanistan and Iraq. What I see is not just an Obama failure, but a  <br>prolonged bipartisan governing elite failure from which all Americans of  all <br>parties and no parties suffer. <br> <br> <br>In a message dated 7/2/2009 12:46:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>lolana  wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>I like that you came on the blog here  and are replying to this. This <br>conversation is important.<br><br><br><br>What  I can't understand is the idea that violence is the only real way to <br>change  things. <br><br><br><br>At the heart of it all, I find people who believe  this, are people who <br>haven't looked around and seen how much good there is  around us all; you can <br>look and pick out the bad and harp on it all day long;  or you can start to <br>look at the world in a more nuanced way, and appreciate  the riches in it, <br>and let imagination flow into ideas for fixing things--not  deterioriate into <br>which cave-man has the bigger and better toys.    <br><br><br><br>Also, without reading Obama's book, all these people including  yourself, I <br>guess, are really rushing to judgement on this one man who is now  our <br>President. Have you read The Audacity of Hope?  Or his other one?  <br><br><br><br>People who go on TV to be talking heads, who hurl verbal turds  at Obama <br>without having read all the things he's taken time to write down  about this <br>country----it seems really weak to me.  Mr. Scheuer, if you  love your <br>country, please read at least one of those books.  \"Audacity\"  reads like a love <br>letter to America and anyone who considers himself a patriot  would do well <br>to engage in dialogue that involves listening and not just  talking.<br><br>Link to comment:  <br><a href=\"http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12014913\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href=\"http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the <br>grill. (<a href=\"http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood0...</a>)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_12:03:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12014913, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11995015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you don't have to wait for fascism, terrorism, or a war on the American constitution. We have it already in the white house and congress.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:44:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "134499dd805b275ad84df2f18d90a150", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11985502, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12056686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Via a dictionary:<br><br>terrorist<br><br>\u2013noun<br>1. \ta person, usually a member of a group, who uses or ADVOCATES TERRORISM.<br>2. \ta person who terrorizes or frightens others.<br><br>By definition, Michael Scheuer is a terrorist. Michael Scheuer is a traitor. Arrest him!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_21:59:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "pinealocytic", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11997463": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am not wishing for an attack.  If your pessimism is right, our republic is pretty much doomed.  I guess I am a bit of a romantic, but I want to believe most Americans will find a political way out of this mess if they can finally see the problem clearly and then act by voting to clean out the stables.<br><br>Mike Scheuer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:38:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11997304, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11991579": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I never apologize for something I did not say.  But there is little point in arguing with someone who believes war never settles anything.  Think about slavery -- war ended that.  Scheuer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:05:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 29, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11991379, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11983772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Spencer, What I tried to say on FOX last night is what I said in my last two books. I believe that our governing elite has a single foreign policy vis. the Muslim World and that it has no contact points with reality. Americans are therefore very inadequately protected. I increasingly believe that our leaders' perception of the threat and attempts to defeat it are verging on the feckless, and that most Americans -- concerned with the economy, raising families, and quite insular in any event -- do not recognize the poor job leaders in both parties are doing in defending their country, homes, and family. I am afraid that another, greater-than-9/11 attack will occur -- because our leaders see the world that they want to be and not the one on offer -- and that only then will Americans starkly see what I believe is unconscionable failure of the federal goverment to put their safety first. My bottom line is that there will be another attack because the Republicans and Democrats are abject incompetents and because our current economic state is too good a chance for bin Laden not to try to push forward al-Qaeda's \"bleed America to bankruptcy\" strategey . Far from wishing for another attack, I trust that Churchill's judgment that God looks out for drunks and the United States of America still holds good and and we remain safe. God better do the job, because no one in our elite is doing it.<br><br>Respectfully, Mike Scheuer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_12:40:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 36, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12050589": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And actually, I think I would have made a good CIA analyst. I remember reading recruiting announcements in the computer science department I was attending back in the very early 1980s and thinking that it sounded interesting but that I probably wouldn't get anywhere because of my liberal views, even though I wasn't politically active at the time. Right wingers only need apply was the impression. Too bad, because it seems as if they could have used some diversity of thought.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_18:15:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12050113, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11998624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Enough said, I guess.<br><br>Scheuer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:22:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11998502, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11992610": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AS to Longstreet the question still remains: how do we defeat the spectre of terrorist tactics without profoundly damaging our open society and remaining civil rights?  The Bush option was totalitarian authoritarianism with clear aspirations to fascism in the sense that corporations would be combined with religious and civil authorities to \"streamline government.\"  Obama is not really opposing that shift.  <br>If we aren't going to attack Al Qaeda at its Saudi roots but are committed to piddling around attacking and occupying targets of economic value like Iraq and Afghanistan, we aren't fighting Islamic extremism at all-we are supporting and encouraging it.  The War on Terror has simply been a war on American citizens, our civil rights, and our ability to oversee corporate and government activities and regulate them in the interests of the public good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:32:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Swami_Binkinanda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12042404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Watch the whole video not just the you tube clip. Violence always should be <br> the last resort, as it was during the American Revolution, the Civil War, <br>and  that little fracas with Adolph Hitler.  What should we have done after  <br>9/11, hold hands, sing, pile up flowers, and hope that bad guys go away?  <br>All three occasions of violence I mentioned above brought very good  things.  <br>I am afraid you are of a generation that has been taught by what  passes <br>for American education that all things are negotiable and that compromise  can <br>always be reached.  This is fatal nonsense, and laughable in  terms of <br>history and all we know about human nature over the ages. Human beings  are <br>hard-wired for war and the best you can do is to contain it.<br> <br>Mike Scheuer<br> <br> <br> <br>In a message dated 7/2/2009 1:13:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>Barbara  Talbott (unregistered) wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>First you  claim you didn't say what you said... can you say 'youtube'?  <br>Then you  answer something I didn't say which you can read directly above.  I <br>never  said 'war never settles anything'.  But lets look at your example, <br>how  much better off would the country be even now if the parties involved <br>could  have reached the point of ending slavery without resorting to war?   <br>Violence should be the absolute last choice, not the first.  Our violent  <br>response to 9/11 has been the best recruiting tool Osama ever had.<br><br>Link  to comment:  <br><a href=\"http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12038888\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href=\"http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the <br>grill. (<a href=\"http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood0...</a>)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_14:43:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12038888, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11998502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"My\" pessimism? I'm not the one who thinks a nuclear attack by terrorists is the only way Americans can be persuaded to pursue a more rational path toward defense and international policy.<br><br>In fact, I think it's pretty clear from history that another attack would provide the kind of people you're railing against yet another opportunity to muddy the waters and screw things up even further than they already have since the last attack.<br><br>Not that that matters to people like Glenn Beck, who thinks the black helicopters of the UN and the One World Government are coming to put him and like-minded \"patriots\" in internment camps.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:17:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11997463, "depth": 11, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12074780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I had hunch you would avoid the question.\"<br><br>Did you ask a question about foreign policy or national security? Did you ever answer any of my questions or did you just make up more loony assertions? And seriously, why should I answer the questions of some anonymous crazy posting under Michael Scheuer's name?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-03_12:12:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12055559, "depth": 17, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12055559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Mr Scheuer, it's wonderful that this debate has ranged into history and whatnot, but for those of us who were below 14th on the morning of September 11th, please try to feel for a second how terrible it is to hear someone on a news program say that our only hope as a nation is to have a repeat of that morning. Sure, you studied Bin Laden and history, but many of us lived that morning not as scholars or analyists, but as targets. I realize it's advantageous for you to take this discussion away from your comments on Beck's show, but some of us would love to hear a direct response to your quote. <br><br>Although, I suppose at the end of the day, you don't need to have an iota of feeling for those of us who were in NY, or for the thousands who died, or for their families. This wasn't a news story ripe for punditry for us. It was a nightmare.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_21:49:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "5bec8449eb5c70e26c72aa12928dd72b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12055214, "depth": 16, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12024455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>\"...no matter the cost to the folks they are charged with protecting?\"</i><br><br>So the costs that you are proposing are acceptable? Countless thousands of deaths of innocent Americans? Let me remind you of your words:<br><br><i>\"...the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.\"</i><br><br>If you regard this as our only chance, then you must be praying for it. Because the alternative, in your view, is no chance at all, and I assume that you aren't advocating that. So which is it?<br><br>Why can't you just admit that it was a stupid thing to say? Or do you stand by it as that idiot Beck did?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_04:20:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "NewsCorpse", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11995254, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11995949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But your point is falsified by the fact that two al Qaeda attacks on New York City -- on the same target -- have left us with the system you claim leaves us \"completely undefended.\" What makes you think another attack would do anything otherwise? What's far more likely is that your wish for an attack would distract from any actual effort toward security, with governmental leaders pushing for, say, a war somewhere on the other side of the world.<br><br>You know, sort of like the last time we were attacked. <br><br>And frankly, if you can't tell that someone like Glenn Beck is so crazy that you shouldn't be going on his show, that's just further proof that your judgment is impaired.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:15:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11995469, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12055214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"You of course have to hit the target, or hit it approximately. Bush did not have the moral courage to do that...\"<br><br>He managed to hit the civilian population of two different countries -- which you seem to endorse -- without doing anything. I don't think it was his lack of moral courage that was behind that. More like sheer stupidity. Probably listening to people like you.<br><br>\"I wonder, in passing, whether your self-professed \"liberal\" views and <br>obvious tender-hearted and genuine concern for \"innocents\" ...\"<br><br>What make you think I object to killing people? What I don't think is a good plan is killing people indiscriminately for no particular reason. If the US had gone into Afghanistan specifically to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives and leaders after 9/11 (or before) that would have been one thing. Occupying the whole country eight years after letting the same people escape? Invading and occupying a country that had nothing to do with it for six years (and counting)? That just seems like an idiot's plan for the destruction of the US military and the economy.<br><br>Sort of like hoping for an American city to be wiped off the face of the globe, like you do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_21:31:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12054403, "depth": 15, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12050611": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No my comment was simple reality.  Kill all of  those who intend to kill you and yours.  The 9/11 response was correct, but too weak to kill all who merited annihilation. <br><br>Mike Scheuer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_18:16:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12050361, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12250552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry for the late response, I missed the incoming.  I think that the  most <br>dangerous thing Americans face is the leadership elite of both  parties.  <br>Think for a moment what has not been done in the last 35 years  and see if <br>you think either party has the best interests of Americans at  heart.<br> <br>--Continued dependence on foreign oil<br>--Bankrupting social security and Medicare<br>--No border controls/11 million-plus undocumented aliens<br>--Failure (since 1991) to make sure all Soviet nuclear devices are  under <br>control<br>--Failing to win a single war in which America has been involved<br>--Starting unnecessary wars (Iraq, Somalia, Serbia, etc.) without the  <br>constitution's required declaration of war<br>--Enormous numbers of billions of dollars in wasted foreign aid ($28  <br>billion in '08) while Americans are unfed<br>--A depth of debt that is almost unimaginable, much of it held by our foes, <br> China and Saudi Arabia<br>--The continuing purchase of weapons systems irrelevant to America's  <br>defense needs<br>--Sending our soldiers and marines overseas with rules of engagement that  <br>makes them targets not killers<br>--A relationship with Israel that has involved us in the Israeli-Arab  <br>religious war in which we have no stake<br> <br>While there are many dangers in and to America, there is no greater danger  <br>to our republic than our bipartisan governing class.<br> <br>Mike Scheuer <br> <br> <br>In a message dated 7/3/2009 9:07:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>nobody  (unregistered) wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>riiiiigt.. and the  first 9/11 happened... why?  We have only had two major <br>terrorist attacks  on US soil in my time.  One was on a Republicans <br>administrations \"watch\"  and the other was actually carried out by a Republican.  <br>Right wingers  are dangerous.  You should be far more concerned about them <br>than about  Obama.<br><br>Link to comment:  <br><a href=\"http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12069137\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href=\"http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Looking for love this summer? Find it now on AOL Personals. <br>(<a href=\"http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove00000003\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove0000...</a>)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-07_08:18:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12069137, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12050361": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'd say I was operating in the same vein as someone who'd claim that the only other option after 9/11 was to \"hold hands, sing, pile up flowers, and hope that bad guys go away.\" Was your comment discussion or abuse?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_18:08:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12050113, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11996090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "May hope would be that Americans are not stupid but inattentive and far too trusting of people in power, and that, if we are attacked, they would see the unacceptable price of interventionism and vote to stop it. <br><br>Mike Scheuer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:20:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11995949, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12050890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Socialists around Obama\"? Spencer, get you a new hero. This guy is a dangerous, fearmongering lunatic. That he receives national media attention is the truly fearsome thing.<br><br>The Constant Weader at <a href=\"http://www.RealityChex.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.RealityChex.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_18:27:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "marieburns", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Poppycock, Mr. Scheuer. You're doing CYA now, but your words were crystal clear. Your crowd spent 8 years calling liberals traitors, but this brief snippet told the true story: When you don't get your way, you call for the destruction of the village to \"save it.\"<br><br>You are DESPICABLE. You, and your enablers, Messrs. Beck and Murdoch.<br><br>SHAME on you all. Traitors, indeed. Calling for the destruction of America because you're not getting what you want when you want it.<br><br>Disgusting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:35:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "MaryscottOConnor", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11983772, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12014913": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I like that you came on the blog here and are replying to this. This conversation is important.<br><br>What I can't understand is the idea that violence is the only real way to change things. <br><br>At the heart of it all, I find people who believe this, are people who haven't looked around and seen how much good there is around us all; you can look and pick out the bad and harp on it all day long; or you can start to look at the world in a more nuanced way, and appreciate the riches in it, and let imagination flow into ideas for fixing things--not deterioriate into which cave-man has the bigger and better toys.   <br><br>Also, without reading Obama's book, all these people including yourself, I guess, are really rushing to judgement on this one man who is now our President. Have you read The Audacity of Hope?  Or his other one? <br><br>People who go on TV to be talking heads, who hurl verbal turds at Obama without having read all the things he's taken time to write down about this country----it seems really weak to me.  Mr. Scheuer, if you love your country, please read at least one of those books.  \"Audacity\" reads like a love letter to America and anyone who considers himself a patriot would do well to engage in dialogue that involves listening and not just talking.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:42:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "lolana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11998624, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11991747": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Mike,<br><br>I put your comments here up as <a href=\"http://washingtonindependent.com/49412/mike-scheuer-explains-his-attack-comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">a separate post</a> and reacted to them. I hope I have not constructed any straw men. Still, don't you think you could have phrased this all a lot better? <br><br>Respectfully,<br>Spencer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:11:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "spencerackerman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11991579, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11990474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "With any luck he and Mr Beck will be at ground zero when Mr Scheuer's wish comes true.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_14:34:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "94c88483999775f188655cf963a141d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11995469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You make my point well.  We are completely undefended, and I fear that only when we are attacked again will Americans see that reality and seek substantive change by electing men and women who will stop the overseas interventionism that our bipartisan governing elite loves and which will be the motivation behind the next attack.<br><br>Mike Scheuer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:00:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11994500, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12043985": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Quoth Michael Scheuer:<br><br>I guess I just believe that America should always come first, and that until we <br>have everybody, fed, employed, and educated here at home we should not be going <br>adventuring overseas -- either militarily or foreign-aid wise.<br>-----------------------<br><br>You had me agreeing with you until here.  Are you really suggesting that there is no role or even room for (and I detest this term) \"soft power?\"  That the United States should retreat into some isolationist shell and then rejoin the world in a few hundred years once we've worked out every little internal problem?<br><br>I don't think that's even possible in an interconnected, globalized economy, let alone advisable.  Poverty, hunger, unemployment, undereducation - these domestic problems are inextricably linked to the world problems of poverty, hunger, unemployment, and undereducation.  The old \"USA First, Screw The Rest of the World\" mentality is, I believe, just as damaging as the interventionist mentality we've had since the 1950s.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_15:40:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "toasterhead", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11991379": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm sorry, that just doesn't cut it.  I have watched the video several times and what you are saying in this half-assed apology is NOT what you said on the Glenn Beck show.  Further you should be well aware of the audience you were reaching and the likely reaction to encouragement of violence.  Further I strongly dissagree that become ever more violent will in any way keep us safer.  There is a reason for the adages \"Violence begets violence\" and \"Live by the sword, die by the sword\"!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:00:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "06d673f899701fab2b07f5b78a481a09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 30, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11983772, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12053974": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actually, you're the one who doesn't seem to know your history. <br><br>We dropped more bombs on Vietnam than were dropped during all of World War II. We killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people and spent untold billions of dollars, for no particular reason. What did that get us? I take it that you think we should have just nuked Hanoi or something. What exactly would that have accomplished apart from killing even more people?<br><br>And what is Iraq, chopped liver? Fallujah? You seem to think that was some sort of panty-waist operation. Shock and Awe sounds like it was tailor-made for your tastes. A million dead, four million refugees, and Michael Scheuer still thinks that's not enough. Of course, you're still avoiding the question of why anyone in their right mind would invade a country that had nothing to do with al Qaeda or 9/11 but then I guess in Scheuer-world once you've dug a hole the only way out is to keep digging.<br><br>And Afghanistan. Well, I certainly remember my recent history about Afghanistan. Especially the part about the Soviet Union collapsing after spending a decade trying to grind out a CIA-sponsored fundamentalist Muslim insurgency. Does that sound familiar to you? What I can't understand is why anyone would advocate for invading and occupying (and killing) the entire country instead of targeting al Qaeda camps. But I'm sure you can once again avoid that question as well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_20:37:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12053353, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12051031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But we killed a bunch of people who had nothing to do with \"killing you and yours.\" We didn't get the people who were actually behind the attacks. And part of the legacy of the response to 9/11 is that the US attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.<br><br>How was any of that -- particularly the last point -- possibly a \"correct\" response? Do you at all understand why you're coming off as out of touch with reality?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_18:33:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12050611, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11985502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Beck and Scheuer are now adding their voices to those of <a href=\"http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Republican Advance Team For Terrorism.</a> This is a group led by Dick Cheney who has been busily promoting the notion that America is <em>\u201cless safe\u201d</em> under the Obama administration so it would be a good time to attack. With Beck\u2019s participation, it is now not only a good time to attack, it is also good policy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_13:25:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "NewsCorpse", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11992671": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sure, Spencer, everything I say off the cuff could be said better.  Still, what I said on Beck was said in the context of \"absurd\" situations that Americans confront when thinking about their security: unarmed national guard troops to stop narco violence but not bother about illegal immigrants; armed civilian minutemen perhaps having to come to the rescue of unarmed guardsmen; Osama having to attack us to make Americans see how poorly thet are defended -- if all these things are not lethally absurd I do not know what would be absurd.   Mike Scheuer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:33:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11991747, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12049760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"What should we have done after 9/11, hold hands, sing, pile up flowers, and hope that bad guys go away?\"<br><br>So simultaneously with arguing that we should have done exactly what we did after the 9/11 attack (i.e. invade Afghanistan rather than directly target al Qaeda and invade Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11)you're arguing that 9/11 wasn't enough to make the government take the defense of the US seriously enough? <br><br>That's where your argument runs off the rails. Because if the government's responses after the 1993 bombing of the WTC and 9/11 attacks made us less safe -- and I'll give you that point, because I agree with you -- what makes you think that their response after an even more serious attack would be better? Back when Cheney and Bush were pushing Saddam Hussein as USA Enemy #1, people were advocating nuking Iraq, which was about as blameless as could be on the 9/11 front. Do you seriously think those same people would hesitate to advocate dropping the bomb on Pakistan or Iran? I don't.<br><br>So how do I get a job as a CIA analyst? I can do research. And I think my judgment's better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_17:48:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12042404, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12038888": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "First you claim you didn't say what you said... can you say 'youtube'?  Then you answer something I didn't say which you can read directly above.  I never said 'war never settles anything'.  But lets look at your example, how much better off would the country be even now if the parties involved could have reached the point of ending slavery without resorting to war?  Violence should be the absolute last choice, not the first.  Our violent response to 9/11 has been the best recruiting tool Osama ever had.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_13:12:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "06d673f899701fab2b07f5b78a481a09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11991579, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12053353": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And, for what it's worth, it strikes me you have read little history.   <br>Destroying human and material infrastructure networks always assist in the  <br>destruction of the enemy they support.  US-UK bomber strikes in WWII pin  <br>downed more than a million German soldiers who otherwise would have fought us or  <br>the Red Army.  There is no way to conduct war and win without civilian  <br>casualties, and that's why it essential to kill widely and quickly, end the <br>war,  and then come home.  None of those things have been done by our political <br> leaders since 1945 and that's why we've lost every war we have fought <br>since  then.  The only mercy in war is the fast and complete defeat of the <br>enemy,  otherwise you get prolonged, inhuman, unwinnable adventures like Iraq and <br> Afghanistan, wars that are conducted in the name of brutally imposing  <br>secular democracy and women's rights on Muslim societies who want no part  of <br>them. <br> <br>Mike Scheuer <br> <br> <br> a message dated 7/2/2009 7:46:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  <br> writes:<br> <br>darrelplant wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>If you use any  amount of force on the wrong people it won't do you a whit <br>of good, Mr.  Scheuer. If you attack the Iraqi and Afghan civilians and let <br>the guys from al  Qaeda get away, then you could use all the force the US <br>could bring to bear  and it would not change a damn thing.<br><br><br><br>I think your comments  here go a great way toward showing why the US was <br>attacked on 9/11 in the  first place. With the kind of judgment you've been <br>showing, even if your  superiors had listened to your warnings about bin <br>Laden, you probably would  have advocated a course of action that would only have <br>screwed things up even  more.<br><br><br><br>I wouldn't be surprised if before 9/11 you were hoping  for just something <br>of the sort to \"wake America up.\" Now, since we haven't  been woken to your <br>satisfaction, you want only a bigger and bloodier attack on  the US to take <br>place. To paraphrase you, al Qaeda \"did not use enough  force.\"<br><br>Link to comment:  <br><a href=\"http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12052852\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href=\"http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the <br>grill. (<a href=\"http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood0...</a>)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_20:07:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12052852, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11987566": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wake up America - sounds like more false-flag terrorism heading your way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_13:51:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "d122b661eec8324cf19ac62c3ad8ac17", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12051312": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Where you have lost touch with reality is to think an insurgency can be fought and won without killing civilians.  If you think that's possible you better pile the flowers, light the candles, and cry the tears.  The only problem with the 9/11 response is that we did not use enough force to win.<br><br>Mike Scheuer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_18:43:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12051031, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12052852": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If you use any amount of force on the wrong people it won't do you a whit of good, Mr. Scheuer. If you attack the Iraqi and Afghan civilians and let the guys from al Qaeda (who weren't in Iraq, by the way) get away, then you could use all the force the US could bring to bear and it would not change a damn thing.<br><br>I think your comments here go a great way toward showing why the US was attacked on 9/11 in the first place. With the kind of judgment you've been showing, even if your superiors had listened to your warnings about bin Laden, you probably would have advocated a course of action that would only have screwed things up even more.<br><br>I wouldn't be surprised if before 9/11 you were hoping for just something of the sort to \"wake America up.\" Now, since we haven't been woken to your satisfaction, you want only a bigger and bloodier attack on the US to take place. To paraphrase you, al Qaeda \"did not use enough force.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_19:45:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12051312, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12014325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mr. Scheuer is a CIA terrorist. Yes, he should be investigated.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:26:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "femacamper", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11995254": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Mary:  If you ever read anything I wrote you would know I don't have a crowd -- both parties are manned by incompetent moral cowards and ideologues, fascists around Bush, socialists around Obama.  Neither group cares for anything but keeping their grip on power no matter the cost to the folks they are charged with protecting.<br><br>Mike Scheuer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:53:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Longstreet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11994686, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11997304": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That didn't happen the last time we were attacked. Wishing for another attack in the hope that the people who are in charge -- on both sides of the aisles of power -- would do something different than they've done for the past twenty, thirty, or forty years when they viewed something as a threat is...oh, whaddya call it when someone expects a different result when the same thing happens over and over?<br><br>Plus, the guy you were talking to on TV would be one of the first people calling for indiscriminately dropping the bomb if there was another attack.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:31:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "darrelplant", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11996090, "depth": 9, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12008315": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Spencer:  <br><br>This is not the first time that Mike Scheuer has boarded the Glen Beck crazy train on the neocon Fox network, probably because he hates Obama.  When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.<br><br>It's too bad Scheuer is ruining his reputation on his core competency like this and is blowing away any intellectual consistency he might have previously possessed.  I know he used to be anti-neocon but now he just sounds like a shill for Israel.  His 2004 book, Imperial Hubris, was terrific and was the first thing I read that lead me to seek a deeper understanding of what 9/11 was about and, believe me, Scheuer was not about \"protecting us with as much violence as necessary.\"  He was about disentangling from the Middle East and pursuing a more even-handed policy with respect to Israel.<br><br>He should apologize for selling out his principles and attempt to recover his reputation.  You don't see Richard Clarke making a fool of himself like this.  But you do see Larry Johnson and Michael Scheuer making utter fools of themselves.  It's plain to see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:58:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "625168c2650ad9d13d20c1dd4253dcc4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12067715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I had  hunch you would avoid the question.<br> <br>Mike Scheuer<br> <br> <br>In a message dated 7/2/2009 9:32:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>darrelplant wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>\"You of course  have to hit the target, or hit it approximately. Bush did <br>not have the moral  courage to do that...\"<br><br><br><br>He managed to hit the civilian  population of two different countries -- <br>which you seem to endorse -- without  doing anything. I don't think it was his <br>lack of moral courage that was behind  that. More like sheer stupidity. <br>Probably listening to people like  you.<br><br><br><br>\"I wonder, in passing, whether your self-professed  \"liberal\" views and <br><br>obvious tender-hearted and genuine concern for  \"innocents\" ...\"<br><br><br><br>What make you think I object to killing  people? What I don't think is a <br>good plan is killing people indiscriminately  for no particular reason. If the <br>US had gone into Afghanistan specifically to  capture or kill al Qaeda <br>operatives and leaders after 9/11 (or before) that  would have been one thing. <br>Occupying the whole country eight years after  letting the same people <br>escape? Invading and occupying a country that had  nothing to do with it for six <br>years (and counting)? That just seems like an  idiot's plan for the <br>destruction of the US military and the  economy.<br><br><br><br>Sort of like hoping for an American city to be wiped  off the face of the <br>globe, like you do.<br><br>Link to comment:  <br><a href=\"http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12055214\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href=\"http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the <br>grill. 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That's not the case he.<br><br>Michael Scheuer, go away forever you moron.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_12:52:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "0da0dac1037e34c1cbda59feda3c6072", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 1, "reply_position": false, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "23772151", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "34441", "hash": -4992977106927801968}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "is_michael_scheuer_actually_urging_an_attack_on_america", "paginate": true, "num_pages": 2, "num_posts": 50, "per_page": 50, "total_posts": 54, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 23772151, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": false, "forum_facebook_key": "", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": false, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
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Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
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Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
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Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


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			return true;
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			return true;
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			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
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				failure_callback(ret);
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		return true;
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};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
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			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 Showing <span id="dsq-num-posts">50</span> of <span id="dsq-total-posts">54</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/is_michael_scheuer_actually_urging_an_attack_on_america/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/is_michael_scheuer_actually_urging_an_attack_on_america/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 </div>\
		';

		
			html = Dsq.Templates.authPost() + html;
		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/is_michael_scheuer_actually_urging_an_attack_on_america/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on The Washington Independent" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:23772151" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'washingtonindependent',
			't'				: 'is_michael_scheuer_actually_urging_an_attack_on_america',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/is_michael_scheuer_actually_urging_an_attack_on_america/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'is_michael_scheuer_actually_urging_an_attack_on_america'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'is_michael_scheuer_actually_urging_an_attack_on_america'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'is_michael_scheuer_actually_urging_an_attack_on_america'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
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Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12008315">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12008315" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12008315" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12008315">Mary</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12008315" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12008315" class="dsq-comment-message">Spencer:  <br><br>This is not the first time that Mike Scheuer has boarded the Glen Beck crazy train on the neocon Fox network, probably because he hates Obama.  When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.<br><br>It\'s too bad Scheuer is ruining his reputation on his core competency like this and is blowing away any intellectual consistency he might have previously possessed.  I know he used to be anti-neocon but now he just sounds like a shill for Israel.  His 2004 book, Imperial Hubris, was terrific and was the first thing I read that lead me to seek a deeper understanding of what 9/11 was about and, believe me, Scheuer was not about "protecting us with as much violence as necessary."  He was about disentangling from the Middle East and pursuing a more even-handed policy with respect to Israel.<br><br>He should apologize for selling out his principles and attempt to recover his reputation.  You don\'t see Richard Clarke making a fool of himself like this.  But you do see Larry Johnson and Michael Scheuer making utter fools of themselves.  It\'s plain to see.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11983772">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11983772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11983772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11983772">Longstreet</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11983772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11983772" class="dsq-comment-message">Spencer, What I tried to say on FOX last night is what I said in my last two books. I believe that our governing elite has a single foreign policy vis. the Muslim World and that it has no contact points with reality. Americans are therefore very inadequately protected. I increasingly believe that our leaders\' perception of the threat and attempts to defeat it are verging on the feckless, and that most Americans -- concerned with the economy, raising families, and quite insular in any event -- do not recognize the poor job leaders in both parties are doing in defending their country, homes, and family. I am afraid that another, greater-than-9/11 attack will occur -- because our leaders see the world that they want to be and not the one on offer -- and that only then will Americans starkly see what I believe is unconscionable failure of the federal goverment to put their safety first. My bottom line is that there will be another attack because the Republicans and Democrats are abject incompetents and because our current economic state is too good a chance for bin Laden not to try to push forward al-Qaeda\'s "bleed America to bankruptcy" strategey . Far from wishing for another attack, I trust that Churchill\'s judgment that God looks out for drunks and the United States of America still holds good and and we remain safe. God better do the job, because no one in our elite is doing it.<br><br>Respectfully, Mike Scheuer</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11991379">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11991379" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11991379" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11991379">Barbara Talbott</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11991379" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11991379" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sorry, that just doesn\'t cut it.  I have watched the video several times and what you are saying in this half-assed apology is NOT what you said on the Glenn Beck show.  Further you should be well aware of the audience you were reaching and the likely reaction to encouragement of violence.  Further I strongly dissagree that become ever more violent will in any way keep us safer.  There is a reason for the adages "Violence begets violence" and "Live by the sword, die by the sword"!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11991579">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11991579" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11991579" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11991579">Longstreet</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11991579" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11991579" class="dsq-comment-message">I never apologize for something I did not say.  But there is little point in arguing with someone who believes war never settles anything.  Think about slavery -- war ended that.  Scheuer</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11991747">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11991747" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11991747" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11991747">spencerackerman</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11991747" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11991747" class="dsq-comment-message">Mike,<br><br>I put your comments here up as <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/49412/mike-scheuer-explains-his-attack-comments" rel="nofollow">a separate post</a> and reacted to them. I hope I have not constructed any straw men. Still, don\'t you think you could have phrased this all a lot better? <br><br>Respectfully,<br>Spencer</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11992671">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11992671" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11992671" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11992671">Longstreet</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11992671" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11992671" class="dsq-comment-message">Sure, Spencer, everything I say off the cuff could be said better.  Still, what I said on Beck was said in the context of "absurd" situations that Americans confront when thinking about their security: unarmed national guard troops to stop narco violence but not bother about illegal immigrants; armed civilian minutemen perhaps having to come to the rescue of unarmed guardsmen; Osama having to attack us to make Americans see how poorly thet are defended -- if all these things are not lethally absurd I do not know what would be absurd.   Mike Scheuer</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11994500">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11994500" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11994500" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11994500" href="http://www.darrelplant.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11994500" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994500" class="dsq-comment-message">But bin Laden did attack us, did he not? Did that attack make US defenses against such attacks better? It would seem not from your argument that there are at least as many problems with the defenses as there were before, so the sole rationale about your wishing for another attack would be mostly to prove that you were right. I mean, aside from all the dead people, of course.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11995469">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11995469" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11995469" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11995469">Longstreet</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11995469" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11995469" class="dsq-comment-message">You make my point well.  We are completely undefended, and I fear that only when we are attacked again will Americans see that reality and seek substantive change by electing men and women who will stop the overseas interventionism that our bipartisan governing elite loves and which will be the motivation behind the next attack.<br><br>Mike Scheuer</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11995949">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11995949" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11995949" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11995949" href="http://www.darrelplant.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11995949" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11995949" class="dsq-comment-message">But your point is falsified by the fact that two al Qaeda attacks on New York City -- on the same target -- have left us with the system you claim leaves us "completely undefended." What makes you think another attack would do anything otherwise? What\'s far more likely is that your wish for an attack would distract from any actual effort toward security, with governmental leaders pushing for, say, a war somewhere on the other side of the world.<br><br>You know, sort of like the last time we were attacked. <br><br>And frankly, if you can\'t tell that someone like Glenn Beck is so crazy that you shouldn\'t be going on his show, that\'s just further proof that your judgment is impaired.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11996090">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11996090" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11996090" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11996090">Longstreet</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11996090" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11996090" class="dsq-comment-message">May hope would be that Americans are not stupid but inattentive and far too trusting of people in power, and that, if we are attacked, they would see the unacceptable price of interventionism and vote to stop it. <br><br>Mike Scheuer</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11997304">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11997304" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11997304" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11997304" href="http://www.darrelplant.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11997304" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11997304" class="dsq-comment-message">That didn\'t happen the last time we were attacked. Wishing for another attack in the hope that the people who are in charge -- on both sides of the aisles of power -- would do something different than they\'ve done for the past twenty, thirty, or forty years when they viewed something as a threat is...oh, whaddya call it when someone expects a different result when the same thing happens over and over?<br><br>Plus, the guy you were talking to on TV would be one of the first people calling for indiscriminately dropping the bomb if there was another attack.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11997463">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11997463" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11997463" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11997463">Longstreet</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11997463" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11997463" class="dsq-comment-message">I am not wishing for an attack.  If your pessimism is right, our republic is pretty much doomed.  I guess I am a bit of a romantic, but I want to believe most Americans will find a political way out of this mess if they can finally see the problem clearly and then act by voting to clean out the stables.<br><br>Mike Scheuer</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11998502">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11998502" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11998502" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11998502" href="http://www.darrelplant.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11998502" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11998502" class="dsq-comment-message">"My" pessimism? I\'m not the one who thinks a nuclear attack by terrorists is the only way Americans can be persuaded to pursue a more rational path toward defense and international policy.<br><br>In fact, I think it\'s pretty clear from history that another attack would provide the kind of people you\'re railing against yet another opportunity to muddy the waters and screw things up even further than they already have since the last attack.<br><br>Not that that matters to people like Glenn Beck, who thinks the black helicopters of the UN and the One World Government are coming to put him and like-minded "patriots" in internment camps.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11998624" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11998624">Longstreet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11998624" class="dsq-comment-message">Enough said, I guess.<br><br>Scheuer</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12014913">lolana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12014913" class="dsq-comment-message">I like that you came on the blog here and are replying to this. This conversation is important.<br><br>What I can\'t understand is the idea that violence is the only real way to change things. <br><br>At the heart of it all, I find people who believe this, are people who haven\'t looked around and seen how much good there is around us all; you can look and pick out the bad and harp on it all day long; or you can start to look at the world in a more nuanced way, and appreciate the riches in it, and let imagination flow into ideas for fixing things--not deterioriate into which cave-man has the bigger and better toys.   <br><br>Also, without reading Obama\'s book, all these people including yourself, I guess, are really rushing to judgement on this one man who is now our President. Have you read The Audacity of Hope?  Or his other one? <br><br>People who go on TV to be talking heads, who hurl verbal turds at Obama without having read all the things he\'s taken time to write down about this country----it seems really weak to me.  Mr. Scheuer, if you love your country, please read at least one of those books.  "Audacity" reads like a love letter to America and anyone who considers himself a patriot would do well to engage in dialogue that involves listening and not just talking.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12035475">Longstreet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12035475" class="dsq-comment-message">I did read "Audacity" and found it both well written and moving.  I  guess <br>I just believe that America should always come first, and that until we  <br>have everybody, fed, employed, and educated here at home we should not be going <br> adventuring overseas -- either militarily or foreign-aid wise.  The  point <br>I tried to make is we need to be better defended here at home if we are to  <br>be able to achieve those things the president writes about.  Security has  <br>to proceed social and economic progress, as we have seen proven in spades in <br> Afghanistan and Iraq. What I see is not just an Obama failure, but a  <br>prolonged bipartisan governing elite failure from which all Americans of  all <br>parties and no parties suffer. <br> <br> <br>In a message dated 7/2/2009 12:46:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>lolana  wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>I like that you came on the blog here  and are replying to this. This <br>conversation is important.<br><br><br><br>What  I can\'t understand is the idea that violence is the only real way to <br>change  things. <br><br><br><br>At the heart of it all, I find people who believe  this, are people who <br>haven\'t looked around and seen how much good there is  around us all; you can <br>look and pick out the bad and harp on it all day long;  or you can start to <br>look at the world in a more nuanced way, and appreciate  the riches in it, <br>and let imagination flow into ideas for fixing things--not  deterioriate into <br>which cave-man has the bigger and better toys.    <br><br><br><br>Also, without reading Obama\'s book, all these people including  yourself, I <br>guess, are really rushing to judgement on this one man who is now  our <br>President. Have you read The Audacity of Hope?  Or his other one?  <br><br><br><br>People who go on TV to be talking heads, who hurl verbal turds  at Obama <br>without having read all the things he\'s taken time to write down  about this <br>country----it seems really weak to me.  Mr. Scheuer, if you  love your <br>country, please read at least one of those books.  "Audacity"  reads like a love <br>letter to America and anyone who considers himself a patriot  would do well <br>to engage in dialogue that involves listening and not just  talking.<br><br>Link to comment:  <br><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12014913" rel="nofollow">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href="http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/" rel="nofollow">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the <br>grill. (<a href="http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005" rel="nofollow">http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood0...</a>)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12038888">Barbara Talbott</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12038888" class="dsq-comment-message">First you claim you didn\'t say what you said... can you say \'youtube\'?  Then you answer something I didn\'t say which you can read directly above.  I never said \'war never settles anything\'.  But lets look at your example, how much better off would the country be even now if the parties involved could have reached the point of ending slavery without resorting to war?  Violence should be the absolute last choice, not the first.  Our violent response to 9/11 has been the best recruiting tool Osama ever had.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12042404">Longstreet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12042404" class="dsq-comment-message">Watch the whole video not just the you tube clip. Violence always should be <br> the last resort, as it was during the American Revolution, the Civil War, <br>and  that little fracas with Adolph Hitler.  What should we have done after  <br>9/11, hold hands, sing, pile up flowers, and hope that bad guys go away?  <br>All three occasions of violence I mentioned above brought very good  things.  <br>I am afraid you are of a generation that has been taught by what  passes <br>for American education that all things are negotiable and that compromise  can <br>always be reached.  This is fatal nonsense, and laughable in  terms of <br>history and all we know about human nature over the ages. Human beings  are <br>hard-wired for war and the best you can do is to contain it.<br> <br>Mike Scheuer<br> <br> <br> <br>In a message dated 7/2/2009 1:13:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>Barbara  Talbott (unregistered) wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>First you  claim you didn\'t say what you said... can you say \'youtube\'?  <br>Then you  answer something I didn\'t say which you can read directly above.  I <br>never  said \'war never settles anything\'.  But lets look at your example, <br>how  much better off would the country be even now if the parties involved <br>could  have reached the point of ending slavery without resorting to war?   <br>Violence should be the absolute last choice, not the first.  Our violent  <br>response to 9/11 has been the best recruiting tool Osama ever had.<br><br>Link  to comment:  <br><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12038888" rel="nofollow">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href="http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/" rel="nofollow">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the <br>grill. (<a href="http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005" rel="nofollow">http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood0...</a>)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12049760" href="http://www.darrelplant.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12049760" class="dsq-comment-message">"What should we have done after 9/11, hold hands, sing, pile up flowers, and hope that bad guys go away?"<br><br>So simultaneously with arguing that we should have done exactly what we did after the 9/11 attack (i.e. invade Afghanistan rather than directly target al Qaeda and invade Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11)you\'re arguing that 9/11 wasn\'t enough to make the government take the defense of the US seriously enough? <br><br>That\'s where your argument runs off the rails. Because if the government\'s responses after the 1993 bombing of the WTC and 9/11 attacks made us less safe -- and I\'ll give you that point, because I agree with you -- what makes you think that their response after an even more serious attack would be better? Back when Cheney and Bush were pushing Saddam Hussein as USA Enemy #1, people were advocating nuking Iraq, which was about as blameless as could be on the 9/11 front. Do you seriously think those same people would hesitate to advocate dropping the bomb on Pakistan or Iran? I don\'t.<br><br>So how do I get a job as a CIA analyst? I can do research. And I think my judgment\'s better.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12050113">Longstreet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12050113" class="dsq-comment-message">Is your point to discuss or abuse?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12050361" href="http://www.darrelplant.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12050361" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d say I was operating in the same vein as someone who\'d claim that the only other option after 9/11 was to "hold hands, sing, pile up flowers, and hope that bad guys go away." Was your comment discussion or abuse?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12050611">Longstreet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12050611" class="dsq-comment-message">No my comment was simple reality.  Kill all of  those who intend to kill you and yours.  The 9/11 response was correct, but too weak to kill all who merited annihilation. <br><br>Mike Scheuer</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12051031" href="http://www.darrelplant.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12051031" class="dsq-comment-message">But we killed a bunch of people who had nothing to do with "killing you and yours." We didn\'t get the people who were actually behind the attacks. And part of the legacy of the response to 9/11 is that the US attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.<br><br>How was any of that -- particularly the last point -- possibly a "correct" response? Do you at all understand why you\'re coming off as out of touch with reality?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12051312">Longstreet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12051312" class="dsq-comment-message">Where you have lost touch with reality is to think an insurgency can be fought and won without killing civilians.  If you think that\'s possible you better pile the flowers, light the candles, and cry the tears.  The only problem with the 9/11 response is that we did not use enough force to win.<br><br>Mike Scheuer</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12052852" href="http://www.darrelplant.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12052852" class="dsq-comment-message">If you use any amount of force on the wrong people it won\'t do you a whit of good, Mr. Scheuer. If you attack the Iraqi and Afghan civilians and let the guys from al Qaeda (who weren\'t in Iraq, by the way) get away, then you could use all the force the US could bring to bear and it would not change a damn thing.<br><br>I think your comments here go a great way toward showing why the US was attacked on 9/11 in the first place. With the kind of judgment you\'ve been showing, even if your superiors had listened to your warnings about bin Laden, you probably would have advocated a course of action that would only have screwed things up even more.<br><br>I wouldn\'t be surprised if before 9/11 you were hoping for just something of the sort to "wake America up." Now, since we haven\'t been woken to your satisfaction, you want only a bigger and bloodier attack on the US to take place. To paraphrase you, al Qaeda "did not use enough force."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12053353">Longstreet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12053353" class="dsq-comment-message">And, for what it\'s worth, it strikes me you have read little history.   <br>Destroying human and material infrastructure networks always assist in the  <br>destruction of the enemy they support.  US-UK bomber strikes in WWII pin  <br>downed more than a million German soldiers who otherwise would have fought us or  <br>the Red Army.  There is no way to conduct war and win without civilian  <br>casualties, and that\'s why it essential to kill widely and quickly, end the <br>war,  and then come home.  None of those things have been done by our political <br> leaders since 1945 and that\'s why we\'ve lost every war we have fought <br>since  then.  The only mercy in war is the fast and complete defeat of the <br>enemy,  otherwise you get prolonged, inhuman, unwinnable adventures like Iraq and <br> Afghanistan, wars that are conducted in the name of brutally imposing  <br>secular democracy and women\'s rights on Muslim societies who want no part  of <br>them. <br> <br>Mike Scheuer <br> <br> <br> a message dated 7/2/2009 7:46:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  <br> writes:<br> <br>darrelplant wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>If you use any  amount of force on the wrong people it won\'t do you a whit <br>of good, Mr.  Scheuer. If you attack the Iraqi and Afghan civilians and let <br>the guys from al  Qaeda get away, then you could use all the force the US <br>could bring to bear  and it would not change a damn thing.<br><br><br><br>I think your comments  here go a great way toward showing why the US was <br>attacked on 9/11 in the  first place. With the kind of judgment you\'ve been <br>showing, even if your  superiors had listened to your warnings about bin <br>Laden, you probably would  have advocated a course of action that would only have <br>screwed things up even  more.<br><br><br><br>I wouldn\'t be surprised if before 9/11 you were hoping  for just something <br>of the sort to "wake America up." Now, since we haven\'t  been woken to your <br>satisfaction, you want only a bigger and bloodier attack on  the US to take <br>place. To paraphrase you, al Qaeda "did not use enough  force."<br><br>Link to comment:  <br><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12052852" rel="nofollow">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href="http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/" rel="nofollow">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the <br>grill. (<a href="http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005" rel="nofollow">http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood0...</a>)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12053974" href="http://www.darrelplant.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12053974" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, you\'re the one who doesn\'t seem to know your history. <br><br>We dropped more bombs on Vietnam than were dropped during all of World War II. We killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people and spent untold billions of dollars, for no particular reason. What did that get us? I take it that you think we should have just nuked Hanoi or something. What exactly would that have accomplished apart from killing even more people?<br><br>And what is Iraq, chopped liver? Fallujah? You seem to think that was some sort of panty-waist operation. Shock and Awe sounds like it was tailor-made for your tastes. A million dead, four million refugees, and Michael Scheuer still thinks that\'s not enough. Of course, you\'re still avoiding the question of why anyone in their right mind would invade a country that had nothing to do with al Qaeda or 9/11 but then I guess in Scheuer-world once you\'ve dug a hole the only way out is to keep digging.<br><br>And Afghanistan. Well, I certainly remember my recent history about Afghanistan. Especially the part about the Soviet Union collapsing after spending a decade trying to grind out a CIA-sponsored fundamentalist Muslim insurgency. Does that sound familiar to you? What I can\'t understand is why anyone would advocate for invading and occupying (and killing) the entire country instead of targeting al Qaeda camps. But I\'m sure you can once again avoid that question as well.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12054403">Longstreet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12054403" class="dsq-comment-message">You of course have to hit the target, or hit it approximately.  Bush  did <br>not have the moral courage to do that, being more concerned with I suppose  <br>with those flower-pilers/candle-holders.<br> <br>I wonder, in passing, whether your self-professed "liberal" views and  <br>obvious tender-hearted and genuine concern for "innocents" has made you a  <br>staunch anti-abortionist?  <br> <br> <br> <br>In a message dated 7/2/2009 8:38:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>darrelplant wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>Actually, you\'re  the one who doesn\'t seem to know your history. <br><br><br><br>We dropped more  bombs on Vietnam than were dropped during all of World War <br>II. We killed and  maimed hundreds of thousands of people and spent untold <br>billions of dollars,  for no particular reason. What did that get us? I take <br>it that you think we  should have just nuked Hanoi or something. What <br>exactly would that have  accomplished apart from killing even more people?<br><br><br><br>And what is  Iraq, chopped liver? Fallujah? You seem to think that was some <br>sort of  panty-waist operation. Shock and Awe sounds like it was <br>tailor-made for your  tastes. A million dead, four million refugees, and Michael <br>Scheuer still  thinks that\'s not enough. Of course, you\'re still avoiding the <br>question of why  anyone in their right mind would invade a country that had <br>nothing to do with  al Qaeda or 9/11 but then I guess in Scheuer-world once <br>you\'ve dug a hole the  only way out is to keep digging.<br><br><br><br>And Afghanistan. Well, I  certainly remember my recent history about <br>Afghanistan. Especially the part  about the Soviet Union collapsing after spending <br>a decade trying to grind out  a CIA-sponsored fundamentalist Muslim <br>insurgency. Does that sound familiar to  you? What I can\'t understand is why anyone <br>would advocate for invading and  occupying (and killing) the entire country <br>instead of targeting al Qaeda  camps. But I\'m sure you can once again avoid <br>that question as  well.<br><br>Link to comment:  <br><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12053974" rel="nofollow">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href="http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/" rel="nofollow">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the <br>grill. (<a href="http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005" rel="nofollow">http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood0...</a>)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12055214" class="dsq-comment-message">"You of course have to hit the target, or hit it approximately. Bush did not have the moral courage to do that..."<br><br>He managed to hit the civilian population of two different countries -- which you seem to endorse -- without doing anything. I don\'t think it was his lack of moral courage that was behind that. More like sheer stupidity. Probably listening to people like you.<br><br>"I wonder, in passing, whether your self-professed "liberal" views and <br>obvious tender-hearted and genuine concern for "innocents" ..."<br><br>What make you think I object to killing people? What I don\'t think is a good plan is killing people indiscriminately for no particular reason. If the US had gone into Afghanistan specifically to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives and leaders after 9/11 (or before) that would have been one thing. Occupying the whole country eight years after letting the same people escape? Invading and occupying a country that had nothing to do with it for six years (and counting)? That just seems like an idiot\'s plan for the destruction of the US military and the economy.<br><br>Sort of like hoping for an American city to be wiped off the face of the globe, like you do.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12055559">Chris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12055559" class="dsq-comment-message">Mr Scheuer, it\'s wonderful that this debate has ranged into history and whatnot, but for those of us who were below 14th on the morning of September 11th, please try to feel for a second how terrible it is to hear someone on a news program say that our only hope as a nation is to have a repeat of that morning. Sure, you studied Bin Laden and history, but many of us lived that morning not as scholars or analyists, but as targets. I realize it\'s advantageous for you to take this discussion away from your comments on Beck\'s show, but some of us would love to hear a direct response to your quote. <br><br>Although, I suppose at the end of the day, you don\'t need to have an iota of feeling for those of us who were in NY, or for the thousands who died, or for their families. This wasn\'t a news story ripe for punditry for us. It was a nightmare.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12074780" href="http://www.darrelplant.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12074780" class="dsq-comment-message">"I had hunch you would avoid the question."<br><br>Did you ask a question about foreign policy or national security? Did you ever answer any of my questions or did you just make up more loony assertions? And seriously, why should I answer the questions of some anonymous crazy posting under Michael Scheuer\'s name?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12067715">Longstreet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12067715" class="dsq-comment-message">I had  hunch you would avoid the question.<br> <br>Mike Scheuer<br> <br> <br>In a message dated 7/2/2009 9:32:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>darrelplant wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>"You of course  have to hit the target, or hit it approximately. Bush did <br>not have the moral  courage to do that..."<br><br><br><br>He managed to hit the civilian  population of two different countries -- <br>which you seem to endorse -- without  doing anything. I don\'t think it was his <br>lack of moral courage that was behind  that. More like sheer stupidity. <br>Probably listening to people like  you.<br><br><br><br>"I wonder, in passing, whether your self-professed  "liberal" views and <br><br>obvious tender-hearted and genuine concern for  "innocents" ..."<br><br><br><br>What make you think I object to killing  people? What I don\'t think is a <br>good plan is killing people indiscriminately  for no particular reason. If the <br>US had gone into Afghanistan specifically to  capture or kill al Qaeda <br>operatives and leaders after 9/11 (or before) that  would have been one thing. <br>Occupying the whole country eight years after  letting the same people <br>escape? Invading and occupying a country that had  nothing to do with it for six <br>years (and counting)? That just seems like an  idiot\'s plan for the <br>destruction of the US military and the  economy.<br><br><br><br>Sort of like hoping for an American city to be wiped  off the face of the <br>globe, like you do.<br><br>Link to comment:  <br><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12055214" rel="nofollow">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href="http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/" rel="nofollow">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the <br>grill. (<a href="http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005" rel="nofollow">http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood0...</a>)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12050589" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12050589" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12050589" href="http://www.darrelplant.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">darrelplant</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12050589" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12050589" class="dsq-comment-message">And actually, I think I would have made a good CIA analyst. I remember reading recruiting announcements in the computer science department I was attending back in the very early 1980s and thinking that it sounded interesting but that I probably wouldn\'t get anywhere because of my liberal views, even though I wasn\'t politically active at the time. Right wingers only need apply was the impression. Too bad, because it seems as if they could have used some diversity of thought.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11994686" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11994686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11994686">MaryscottOConnor</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11994686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994686" class="dsq-comment-message">Poppycock, Mr. Scheuer. You\'re doing CYA now, but your words were crystal clear. Your crowd spent 8 years calling liberals traitors, but this brief snippet told the true story: When you don\'t get your way, you call for the destruction of the village to "save it."<br><br>You are DESPICABLE. You, and your enablers, Messrs. Beck and Murdoch.<br><br>SHAME on you all. Traitors, indeed. Calling for the destruction of America because you\'re not getting what you want when you want it.<br><br>Disgusting.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11995254" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11995254" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11995254">Longstreet</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11995254" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11995254" class="dsq-comment-message">Mary:  If you ever read anything I wrote you would know I don\'t have a crowd -- both parties are manned by incompetent moral cowards and ideologues, fascists around Bush, socialists around Obama.  Neither group cares for anything but keeping their grip on power no matter the cost to the folks they are charged with protecting.<br><br>Mike Scheuer</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12024455">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12024455" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12024455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12024455" href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">NewsCorpse</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12024455" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12024455" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>"...no matter the cost to the folks they are charged with protecting?"</i><br><br>So the costs that you are proposing are acceptable? Countless thousands of deaths of innocent Americans? Let me remind you of your words:<br><br><i>"...the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States."</i><br><br>If you regard this as our only chance, then you must be praying for it. Because the alternative, in your view, is no chance at all, and I assume that you aren\'t advocating that. So which is it?<br><br>Why can\'t you just admit that it was a stupid thing to say? Or do you stand by it as that idiot Beck did?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12069137" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12069137" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12069137">nobody</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12069137" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12069137" class="dsq-comment-message">riiiiigt.. and the first 9/11 happened... why?  We have only had two major terrorist attacks on US soil in my time.  One was on a Republicans administrations "watch" and the other was actually carried out by a Republican.  Right wingers are dangerous.  You should be far more concerned about them than about Obama.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12250552" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12250552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12250552">Longstreet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12250552" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry for the late response, I missed the incoming.  I think that the  most <br>dangerous thing Americans face is the leadership elite of both  parties.  <br>Think for a moment what has not been done in the last 35 years  and see if <br>you think either party has the best interests of Americans at  heart.<br> <br>--Continued dependence on foreign oil<br>--Bankrupting social security and Medicare<br>--No border controls/11 million-plus undocumented aliens<br>--Failure (since 1991) to make sure all Soviet nuclear devices are  under <br>control<br>--Failing to win a single war in which America has been involved<br>--Starting unnecessary wars (Iraq, Somalia, Serbia, etc.) without the  <br>constitution\'s required declaration of war<br>--Enormous numbers of billions of dollars in wasted foreign aid ($28  <br>billion in \'08) while Americans are unfed<br>--A depth of debt that is almost unimaginable, much of it held by our foes, <br> China and Saudi Arabia<br>--The continuing purchase of weapons systems irrelevant to America\'s  <br>defense needs<br>--Sending our soldiers and marines overseas with rules of engagement that  <br>makes them targets not killers<br>--A relationship with Israel that has involved us in the Israeli-Arab  <br>religious war in which we have no stake<br> <br>While there are many dangers in and to America, there is no greater danger  <br>to our republic than our bipartisan governing class.<br> <br>Mike Scheuer <br> <br> <br>In a message dated 7/3/2009 9:07:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>nobody  (unregistered) wrote, in response to Longstreet:<br><br>riiiiigt.. and the  first 9/11 happened... why?  We have only had two major <br>terrorist attacks  on US soil in my time.  One was on a Republicans <br>administrations "watch"  and the other was actually carried out by a Republican.  <br>Right wingers  are dangerous.  You should be far more concerned about them <br>than about  Obama.<br><br>Link to comment:  <br><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-michael-scheuer-actually-urging-an-attack-on-america#comment-12069137" rel="nofollow">http://washingtonindependent.com/49373/is-micha...</a><br><br>--<br>You  may reply to this email to post your response. To turn off <br>notifications, go  to your Disqus settings at:  <br><a href="http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/" rel="nofollow">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br><br>**************Looking for love this summer? Find it now on AOL Personals. <br>(<a href="http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove00000003" rel="nofollow">http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove0000...</a>)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11984254" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11984254" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11984254">Peter K</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11984254" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11984254" class="dsq-comment-message">Normally, I try to use reasonable words in public.  That\'s not the case he.<br><br>Michael Scheuer, go away forever you moron.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11985502" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11985502" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11985502" href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">NewsCorpse</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11985502" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11985502" class="dsq-comment-message">Beck and Scheuer are now adding their voices to those of <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1278" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Republican Advance Team For Terrorism.</a> This is a group led by Dick Cheney who has been busily promoting the notion that America is <em>“less safe”</em> under the Obama administration so it would be a good time to attack. With Beck’s participation, it is now not only a good time to attack, it is also good policy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11995015" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11995015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11995015">mike</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11995015" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11995015" class="dsq-comment-message">you don\'t have to wait for fascism, terrorism, or a war on the American constitution. We have it already in the white house and congress.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11987566" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11987566" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11987566" href="http://globalresearch.ca/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Cedric Burgundy</a>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11987566" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11987566" class="dsq-comment-message">Wake up America - sounds like more false-flag terrorism heading your way.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11990474" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11990474" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11990474">don</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11990474" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11990474" class="dsq-comment-message">With any luck he and Mr Beck will be at ground zero when Mr Scheuer\'s wish comes true.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11992610" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11992610" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11992610">Swami_Binkinanda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11992610" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11992610" class="dsq-comment-message">AS to Longstreet the question still remains: how do we defeat the spectre of terrorist tactics without profoundly damaging our open society and remaining civil rights?  The Bush option was totalitarian authoritarianism with clear aspirations to fascism in the sense that corporations would be combined with religious and civil authorities to "streamline government."  Obama is not really opposing that shift.  <br>If we aren\'t going to attack Al Qaeda at its Saudi roots but are committed to piddling around attacking and occupying targets of economic value like Iraq and Afghanistan, we aren\'t fighting Islamic extremism at all-we are supporting and encouraging it.  The War on Terror has simply been a war on American citizens, our civil rights, and our ability to oversee corporate and government activities and regulate them in the interests of the public good.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12014325" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12014325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12014325">femacamper</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12014325" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12014325" class="dsq-comment-message">Mr. Scheuer is a CIA terrorist. Yes, he should be investigated.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12027916" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12027916" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12027916">Kilo</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12027916" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12027916" class="dsq-comment-message">"I have a lot of respect for Michael Scheuer."<br><br>Read the 9/11 report have ya ? The Looming Tower ? Any book about 9/11 ? <br>I know if Microsoft had been identified by everyone as the biggest reason 9/11 was allowed to happen because of BS inter-software company rivalries, I wouldn\'t open a post about Bill Gates with the sentence "I have a lot of respect for Bill when it comes to CT efforts".<br><br>Scheuer wouldn\'t be able to publish a book or be booked on a single talk show anywhere if 9/11 didn\'t happen. That whole Bin Laden Unit withholding identities of known al Qaeda planners entering the US from the FBI really turned out a treat for his media career, didn\'t it now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12043985" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12043985" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12043985">toasterhead</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12043985" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12043985" class="dsq-comment-message">Quoth Michael Scheuer:<br><br>I guess I just believe that America should always come first, and that until we <br>have everybody, fed, employed, and educated here at home we should not be going <br>adventuring overseas -- either militarily or foreign-aid wise.<br>-----------------------<br><br>You had me agreeing with you until here.  Are you really suggesting that there is no role or even room for (and I detest this term) "soft power?"  That the United States should retreat into some isolationist shell and then rejoin the world in a few hundred years once we\'ve worked out every little internal problem?<br><br>I don\'t think that\'s even possible in an interconnected, globalized economy, let alone advisable.  Poverty, hunger, unemployment, undereducation - these domestic problems are inextricably linked to the world problems of poverty, hunger, unemployment, and undereducation.  The old "USA First, Screw The Rest of the World" mentality is, I believe, just as damaging as the interventionist mentality we\'ve had since the 1950s.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12044119" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12044119" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12044119">Wellstone</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12044119" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12044119" class="dsq-comment-message">Scheuer, whatever the value of your positions may or may not be, you have to at least accept the fact that putting those positions forward on a platform like Beck\'s Surreal Circus of Insanity makes them immediately suspect.<br><br>Maybe you were not aware of or didn\'t know Beck\'s lack of any relationship with reality, but your continuing to use the frames and language you chose on Colmes\' show merits you the types of responses you\'ve received here.<br><br>And if you see no difference in the Obama approach to the Muslim world and the GOP\'s, maybe you do belong in the dimly-lit, violent Bizarro world of Glenn Beck, Dick Cheney, and Frank Gaffeney after all.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12050890" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12050890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12050890">marieburns</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12050890" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12050890" class="dsq-comment-message">"Socialists around Obama"? Spencer, get you a new hero. This guy is a dangerous, fearmongering lunatic. That he receives national media attention is the truly fearsome thing.<br><br>The Constant Weader at <a href="http://www.RealityChex.com" rel="nofollow">www.RealityChex.com</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12056686" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12056686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12056686">pinealocytic</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12056686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12056686" class="dsq-comment-message">Via a dictionary:<br><br>terrorist<br><br>–noun<br>1. 	a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or ADVOCATES TERRORISM.<br>2. 	a person who terrorizes or frightens others.<br><br>By definition, Michael Scheuer is a terrorist. Michael Scheuer is a traitor. Arrest him!</div>\
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				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=washingtonindependent&t=is_michael_scheuer_actually_urging_an_attack_on_america&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
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		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	




if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




