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"author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1789286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There is a good reason for treating prisoners humanely. A man facing the choice of fighting to the death or surrendering will tend to fight to the death if he fears harsh treatment if he surrenders.  A man who chooses to fight to the death will often take out one or more of his enemies (our guys) before he is killed.  thus decent treatment of POWs tends to reduce our casualties.<br><br><br><br>W.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-29_05:56:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bcf9e4a25817a6b0312fea8edb65c2d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789287": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Everyone needs a little torture now and then. Personally, I prefer a bit of electrical shock...<br><br><br><br>Find a better economi=y based plan than John McCain's 3R's...<br><br>I dare you.<br><br><br><br>Progressive Candidate John McCain comes through for America with his 3R economic plan. In the aura of Theodore Roosevelt, McCain", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-15_12:10:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "7a7bcbc6907530837a3cfdabdc01eddb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If they can do it, we can do it.  Sounds like the justification from the Court of King George IV and entourage.  The Constitution is just a piece of paper too.<br><br><br><br>There's something not quite right about a nation that threaten to torture and murder those who don't accept its offer of peace and freedom; did I mention also dangerously juvenile.<br><br><br><br>But stop, wait - for the past 8 years this nation has been in the control of a bizarre dangerous little twerp with a major father hang-up.  An alcoholic drug addict who's found J-E-S-U-S.  I've got a big New Flash so has everyone on death row.  I agree with Bill Maher George W. Bush should have to walk home.  And then he should be tried for war crimes against humanity and hanged in effigy in the Court of Public Opinion.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Just because the Nazi didn't win WWII doesn't mean the President's name isn't Schikelgrubber.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-11_21:14:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4365db4688e45c259d8173575263a1e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If we are no longer a nation of laws, WTF have we become? Torture and secret rendition of uncountable innocents does not move us forward toward civilization but away from it toward madness and degenerate, less evolved forms of life.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_14:43:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "1c599a67ec024a942c60f554423d17c0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789290": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well well, sunnyjim, I know a little about the Geneva Conventions myself, and I've forgotten a whole lot more about American History than you have ever learned -- obviously.  I could attempt to educate you and the other horribly misguided, &quot;March to the Gas Chambers With Dignity&quot; types on this and other boards, but what's the point?<br><br><br><br>You are blinded by Bush Derangement Syndrome and no amount of clear, concise proof or evidence that collides with your world view will help alleviate your &quot;tortured&quot; conclusions and those of the other angry &quot;hot-button issue&quot; types to which you cling.<br><br><br><br>Is it possible that the Khalid Sheik Mohammeds of the world aren't built like your father or other gentlemen of Western-World fame?  Is it possible that those who know how to extract information don't start with water-boarding, but with techniques that more resemble Cpl. Hanns Scharff of WWII Luftwaffe fame?<br><br><br><br>What I know hasn't occurred to you is that 3,000 American lives are worth immeasurably more than the life or opinion of 1 jihadist.  You don't get that, and you and your ilk never will.  You are incapable of making a moral judgment.  You are incapable of judging for in that, you might have to live up to said judgment.  The neo-liberal will not or can not take a moral stand against anything other than his or her country, because everything is morally relative.  It is an illness, and I know, because I once suffered greatly under it.<br><br><br><br>Wake up.  We are better than jihadists.  Not because we would treat them better, but because we would at least give them a chance, unlike what they would do for you and your father or mother or child.<br><br><br><br>The fact is that waterboarding -- not torture -- worked to save lives.  Please go on record that you would rather watch innocent children die than have your &quot;image&quot; damaged in some Marxist cafe' in Paris.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-22_11:22:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "9ef60e7aeaca18c896b0377fc5ee86d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789291": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The terrorist state par excellence putting its own torturers and terrorists on trial is obviously not going to happen. But as Philippe Sands has recently said, these crimninals had better remain within their own borders for the rest of their lives, for there is a whole army of us out here who will be making sure that if any of these criminals takes one step outside the terrorist state's borders they will be arrested under international torture and genocide legislation, as their own country will not bring them to justice: &quot;The judge and prosecutor were particularly struck by the immunity from prosecution provided by the Military Commissions Act.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-21_05:55:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "2a303eb05b93aa3808ce46c3c4d9ce8d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789292": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Can we not have comments here accusing John McCain of selling out the country while he was a POW? That's disgusting. Stick to the issue please.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-21_03:58:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "64742a1aaab6d5013401acd5e405d644", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789293": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This sordid chapter started back at yale when pledges hides were branded by cigarett burns. Also with exploding frogs by way of firecrackers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_02:52:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "19156fdec3fad10ef1e3650acc7e6946", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789294": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Think back to the 9/11 attacks:<br><br>On the morning of 9/11 when the president was notified of the attacks while talking with children in a classroom in Florida, he completely froze for a full 5 minutes before the Secret Service led a still obviously stunned president out of the room. (The scene was shown on network TV several times that morning, but I've never seen it since.) Our fearless leader then made a mad dash to Air Force One and flew off quickly, not to New York or Washington DC, but to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana! I'm sure the whole nation was relieved in those desperately uncertain hours to know that at least our commander-in-chief was somewhere safe.<br><br>Meanwhile, Our courageous Veep rapidly got himself to a secure bunker in an &quot;undisclosed location&quot; where he hid out for several days until it was evident that any danger was past.<br><br>Such examples of courage and leadership are truly an inspiration for the generations!<br><br>But, the two most astonishing things are:<br>1. These goons got reelected in 2004, and<br>2. No Republican politician since 9/11 seems to have asked the question, &quot;Where's Bin Laden?&quot;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_19:49:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "eb997b779ad2f2a24dd2dbfb575fc91b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789295": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope that we can all agree that no matter what our opinion is on this issue that we all recognize how important it is for our country to know exactly what our government officials did or did not do in our names. As President Reagan once said, &quot;Trust but verify&quot;. Having a full, fair investigation into the torture question is not only prudent but the only way to ensure government accountability to the people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_17:28:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "5ef3a512ddab315125d99437f3803837", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789296": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No doubt about it torture does work.<br><br>Just ask John McKKKain.<br><br>When he was a POW he was known as &quot;Songbird&quot;<br><br>POWs who were incarcerrated with him say he gave up bomber routes which got a bunch of our pilots and crew killed.<br><br>Just Google John McCain Songbird and see for yourself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_17:25:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "3d69f7be28cac12cd9a92b82fe703dbe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789297": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Magi91711 said:<br><br>I lost a friend in the towers. If waterboarding or anything short of pulling out some guys fingernails could have stopped he and 3000 other guitless individuals from being incinerated, I would have gladly walked to the spicket.<br><br>- - - end quote - - -<br><br>I would have run, no, sprinted - to beat you to the spicket, IF &quot;..waterboarding or anything short of pulling out some guys fingernails could have stopped..&quot; 9/11 and saved those lives who were not only guitless, but also included way too many of those who were Americas best heroes.   I don't think that there is a sentient being on this continent that would disagree with you on that.  But that is a very big IF.<br><br>But the point (to me) is that it is only in the movies that torture-obtained information does any good and save the day.<br><br>In real life, if we the people demand an accountable and transparent government, then maybe we would find out what, if any, response happened to the memo to the POTUS titled &quot;OBL Determined to fly planes into US buildings this summer&quot; one month before 9/11 . Was it really just ignored?  Really?  It bothers me that I don't know more about that.  I don't like secretive government.<br><br>How about the Colorado FBI agent who was onto the &quot;terrorists are in flight school&quot; plot and got shut down by the FBI uber-dudes in Washington D.C..  Just office politics, or what?  I wish I knew.<br><br>How about decades of neglect of our immigration policies allowing (how many? - more than half) the 9/11 nineteen terrorists to remain in the US past the end of their visas?  I read that 10 of them had been pulled over by local law enforcement on traffic issues in the six months before 9/11 - what if their illegal visa status had come up on the screen for the officer?  And what if he had authority to detain them for ICE?<br><br>What if there were an armed air marshall on every flight.  Some flights, two armed air marshalls.<br><br>But the issue in front of us involves our loss of the best part of the idea of America.  If our leaders conspired to take away my valued legacy of living in a humane country, then I want them held accountable by the same law that they would apply to you or me.<br><br>&quot;Give in to your hatred and your journey to the dark side will be complete.  ~ Emporer Palpatine&quot; ...IS just a line from a movie, but the idea might have some application here in the real world.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:44:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "57d65ffb925c7a0ac1d21e88fc333899", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&quot;Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. [Applause] When independent- thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the &quot;Nation,&quot; it's time for all of us to sit up and worry.<br><br><br><br>To call someone &quot;anti-American&quot;, indeed to be anti-American, (or for that matter, anti-Indian or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those the establishment has set out for you. If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good, you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.&quot;<br><br><br><br>-Arundhati Roy", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_15:49:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "d2e733b4187e93323e0d1c263f78e728", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789299": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The supreme arrogance and ignorance of the people of America is that they erroneously believe that they should be the ones bringing freedom and democracy to the people and nations of this world.<br><br>I'll always continue believing that this natural ignorance comes from an inherent ultra-patriotism/ultra-nationalism. This is the belief instilled in every American, from birth to death, that there can be no greater citizen, no greater country, and no greater way of life than America.<br><br>This criminal Bush &quot;administration&quot; has deviously and immorally used patriotic propaganda to manipulate public perception into supporting its illegal aggressions, to strip away the civil liberties and rights of Americans. When someone speaks against these fascist policies, they're labeled unpatriotic.<br><br>You want to end this war? Start by consistently showing the American public the daily effects of it on the Iraqi population. Without censure. Show the blown-up bodies. Show the dead and wounded children. Show the grieving families. Anyone who criticizes this as blatantly indecent, should question the decency of what America has forced upon Iraq.<br><br>If the American public was truly exposed to the realities of what their government and politicians subject the peoples of other nations to, they would not be so quick to send their sons and daughters off to war, and they would think twice about the decency of their own morals and &quot;Christian values&quot;.<br><br>The American mainstream media is complicit to this unnecessary war. They have failed both the innocent citizens of America and Iraq. Shame on them forever.<br><br>Bush and Cheney won't be impeached and they will suffer no repercussions after leaving office because they are Americans leading their country in a time of so-called &quot;war&quot;. Simply put, American ultra-patriotism will save them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:43:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "21217251eb4b771f12aabbc6956fa8e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry, I just realized that posted twice. I hit the button twice. How do I delete one copy?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:22:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "754e0474a861dd23094a5e7d0ec82228", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789301": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh man oh man. mclaren, magi91711, and all who agree with them: here's a couple points to consider. Aside from Sunnyjim's excellent point about how our behavior puts our troops in danger, consider these things before you argue in favor of torture:<br><br><br><br>1 - torture DOES NOT WORK. I think this has been pointed out before but it's worth repeating, since most of the defenses of torture I've come across rest on the idea that info gained through torture can save lives or some such BS. This is completely false as any competent interrogator - or even psychologist or historian - could tell you. (Also, the usual ticking-bomb scenario usually cited as rationale is extremely unrealistic outside of Hollywood.) The victim will say anything to make the pain stop, a fact which makes any 'information' gained by such methods highly unreliable. This is one of many reasons 'evidence' gained by torture is usually inadmissible in civilized courts. Arguing that torture is ok if it's for 'good purposes' also BTW is an argument for the end justifying the means, which history has shown to be a dangerous and usually vile notion.<br><br><br><br>2 - torture is so widely condemned because it denies the humanity of the victim and their inalienable rights not to be subjected to excruciating, dehumanizing treatment. Take a look at the work of a respected scholar on the subject of pain, say Elaine Scarry, and tell me torture is not dehumanizing. There are also arguments to be made that it dehumanizes the torturer, and things like the Winter Soldier testimony (though not specifically about just torture) I think gives credence to this. Torture is immoral and nauseating. Period.<br><br><br><br>3 - arguing for torture is also arguing in favor of violating both US and international law. And claiming &quot;enhanced interrogation&quot; techniques aren't torture is exactly the kind of BS this administration is using to shield itself from the very real threat of legal consequences. It is EUPHEMISM, nothing more. Waterboarding - one of the techniques is question - is certainly to be considered torture just on the basis of past cases in US law. The US has executed people for using it - it is certainly illegal under the terms of normal US law. Experts have also made clear that many of the techniques in question do constitute torture, whether physical or psychological. Ask Jose Padilla if being locked in a bare cell and subjected to sensory deprivation isn't torture - except he can't really answer you. He's been driven insane by said techniques. (And no, I'm making no claims as to his guilt/innocence or justifying any possible crimes; I'm using him as an example of the REAL EFFECTS of these methods only.) Ask Vietnam POWs what constitutes torture. Does rape count? How about threats of rape and death in a situation where clearly they could happen? Threats of violence to one's family? Being chained and hit until you lose consciousness? Hung by the wrists for hours? Not torture? Even if you die? Being doused in freezing water and left in below-0 temperatures so that your legs have to be amputated? (It's been done.) How about having your children tortured in front of you? That's something the Yoo-Bybee memos specifically mention. I could go on but you get the idea. Also consider the fact that the techniques in question with &quot;enhanced interrogation&quot; are not permitted under the US Army Field Manual - THE guide to operating procedure for the treatment of prisoners. Consider why Bush had to create a separate &quot;enemy combatant&quot; status for &quot;detainees&quot; specifically exempting them from legal protections like the Geneva Conventions - if such techniques weren't torture they would be admissible under the GC and hence no special status would be necessary. Don't play with words: we are talking about TORTURE.<br><br><br><br>4 - while I'm sure the pain of those who lost friends and relatives in 9/11 is very real and I do not in any way attack them for being angry - I wish I could do more to help them with their grief - arguing in favor of torture merely out of revenge desires, while understandable, does not advance us as a nation or as individuals with moral consciousness. Revenge is the justification of terrorist acts like 9/11. No, I'm not calling anyone a terrorist or denying their RIGHT to be angry and WANT revenge; I have such feelings myself. I'm only saying that ACTING solely out of such feelings rather than from a place of rationality and desire for JUSTICE places us on the same level as those who murdered 3,000+ people on 9/11. Is this what we want? Aren't we called upon as human beings to master ourselves and treat our enemies better than they treat us?<br><br><br><br>Look, if my mother or father or friend died in 9/11, I'd want to roast every damn possible accomplice on a slow spit and law be damned. I'd WANT it. If I were an interrogator or were given access to possible accomplices, I'm not certain I would be able to resist giving them some 'payback.' Especially if I were told I wouldn't face consequences. But even in that situation, even if it was me myself, I would STILL from the standpoint of justice consider my acts immoral and worthy of punishment. I might try to justify it to myself at the time, but I've thought about it and I still believe I'd be guilty. Let that make it clear I'm not attacking people angry about 9/11 or anything; I'm attacking the pernicious beliefs and attitudes that make it seem like torture is in any way &quot;all right.&quot; That is exactly the kind of thinking that we are supposedly fighting against in our struggle against terrorism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:20:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "754e0474a861dd23094a5e7d0ec82228", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789302": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh man oh man. mclaren, magi91711, and all who agree with them: here's a couple points to consider. Aside from Sunnyjim's excellent point about how our behavior puts our troops in danger, consider these things before you argue in favor of torture:<br><br><br><br>1 - torture DOES NOT WORK. I think this has been pointed out before but it's worth repeating, since most of the defenses of torture I've come across rest on the idea that info gained through torture can save lives or some such BS. This is completely false as any competent interrogator - or even psychologist or historian - could tell you. (Also, the usual ticking-bomb scenario usually cited as rationale is extremely unrealistic outside of Hollywood.) The victim will say anything to make the pain stop, a fact which makes any 'information' gained by such methods highly unreliable. This is one of many reasons 'evidence' gained by torture is usually inadmissible in civilized courts. Arguing that torture is ok if it's for 'good purposes' also BTW is an argument for the end justifying the means, which history has shown to be a dangerous and usually vile notion.<br><br><br><br>2 - torture is so widely condemned because it denies the humanity of the victim and their inalienable rights not to be subjected to excruciating, dehumanizing treatment. Take a look at the work of a respected scholar on the subject of pain, say Elaine Scarry, and tell me torture is not dehumanizing. There are also arguments to be made that it dehumanizes the torturer, and things like the Winter Soldier testimony (though not specifically about just torture) I think gives credence to this. Torture is immoral and nauseating. Period.<br><br><br><br>3 - arguing for torture is also arguing in favor of violating both US and international law. And claiming &quot;enhanced interrogation&quot; techniques aren't torture is exactly the kind of BS this administration is using to shield itself from the very real threat of legal consequences. It is EUPHEMISM, nothing more. Waterboarding - one of the techniques is question - is certainly to be considered torture just on the basis of past cases in US law. The US has executed people for using it - it is certainly illegal under the terms of normal US law. Experts have also made clear that many of the techniques in question do constitute torture, whether physical or psychological. Ask Jose Padilla if being locked in a bare cell and subjected to sensory deprivation isn't torture - except he can't really answer you. He's been driven insane by said techniques. (And no, I'm making no claims as to his guilt/innocence or justifying any possible crimes; I'm using him as an example of the REAL EFFECTS of these methods only.) Ask Vietnam POWs what constitutes torture. Does rape count? How about threats of rape and death in a situation where clearly they could happen? Threats of violence to one's family? Being chained and hit until you lose consciousness? Hung by the wrists for hours? Not torture? Even if you die? Being doused in freezing water and left in below-0 temperatures so that your legs have to be amputated? (It's been done.) How about having your children tortured in front of you? That's something the Yoo-Bybee memos specifically mention. I could go on but you get the idea. Also consider the fact that the techniques in question with &quot;enhanced interrogation&quot; are not permitted under the US Army Field Manual - THE guide to operating procedure for the treatment of prisoners. Consider why Bush had to create a separate &quot;enemy combatant&quot; status for &quot;detainees&quot; specifically exempting them from legal protections like the Geneva Conventions - if such techniques weren't torture they would be admissible under the GC and hence no special status would be necessary. Don't play with words: we are talking about TORTURE.<br><br><br><br>4 - while I'm sure the pain of those who lost friends and relatives in 9/11 is very real and I do not in any way attack them for being angry - I wish I could do more to help them with their grief - arguing in favor of torture merely out of revenge desires, while understandable, does not advance us as a nation or as individuals with moral consciousness. Revenge is the justification of terrorist acts like 9/11. No, I'm not calling anyone a terrorist or denying their RIGHT to be angry and WANT revenge; I have such feelings myself. I'm only saying that ACTING solely out of such feelings rather than from a place of rationality and desire for JUSTICE places us on the same level as those who murdered 3,000+ people on 9/11. Is this what we want? Aren't we called upon as human beings to master ourselves and treat our enemies better than they treat us?<br><br><br><br>Look, if my mother or father or friend died in 9/11, I'd want to roast every damn possible accomplice on a slow spit and law be damned. I'd WANT it. If I were an interrogator or were given access to possible accomplices, I'm not certain I would be able to resist giving them some 'payback.' Especially if I were told I wouldn't face consequences. But even in that situation, even if it was me myself, I would STILL from the standpoint of justice consider my acts immoral and worthy of punishment. I might try to justify it to myself at the time, but I've thought about it and I still believe I'd be guilty. Let that make it clear I'm not attacking people angry about 9/11 or anything; I'm attacking the pernicious beliefs and attitudes that make it seem like torture is in any way &quot;all right.&quot; That is exactly the kind of thinking that we are supposedly fighting against in our struggle against terrorism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:20:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "754e0474a861dd23094a5e7d0ec82228", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Magi91711, I just have two questions for you. 1)Where is Osama Bin Laden? 2) Who would Jesus Torture?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:13:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "c371ead99a4ae3dab4b1229db8dac49f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789304": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We can allow the cancer from this war-without-end to eat away at eveything we value about our country: truth, justice, honor, integrity and the value of each human life.  Or, we can quietly say to ourselves: &quot;No.  I will not be deterred any longer by phrases such as 'lack of political will,' 'special kind of enemy,' 'one person cannot change things,' etc., etc.  Whatever another person is content to ignore makes no difference.  I need to be able to look myself in the mirror.  So I have committed to do at least one thing every day since the president issued his &quot;So WHAT?&quot; retort.  Read another article on torture or watch a video about it that I would rather shy away from.  E-mail my congressman and both senators each week.  Contact friends and e-mail them on this topic.  I keep voter registration forms in my bag to sign up people who say they care, but have not even registered.  I joined the A.C.L.U. and signed the petition they are sponsoring for a special prosecutor on this topic.  I realize that I could do these little things until doomsday and still not make a nickel's worth of difference.  But, at long last, I cannot sit still, and I cannot look away.  Even the thought of doing nothing at all makes me feel I am aiding and abetting the people who tortured in our name, and that makes me sick at heart.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_13:02:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "8d287cc4cfdacb116a377f8cbf5f41ab", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789305": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As Marine Corps Naval Aviator Viet Vet I agree with Sunnyjim.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_12:45:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "e0993711a0231da2825e194af8f1c425", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I lost a friend in the towers. If waterboarding or anything short of pulling out some guys fingernails could have stopped he and 3000 other guitless individuals from being incinerated, I would have gladly walked to the spicket.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_12:38:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "abb8f5bb6e0594590595c9263c493db2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789307": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "mclaren -  and all of you other ignorant posters who think you are &quot;experts&quot; on torture.<br><br>The use of torture has nothing to do with the person being tortured and how evil you think they are - it is all about who we are as Americans.<br><br>George Washington in the Revolutionary War secured better conditions for American POWs by letting the British know that if they didn't treat US captives better, things would get worse for British POWs.  Besides, intelligence professionals will tell you that torture does not work to secure reliable intelligence - the tortured will say anything to make the pain stop.<br><br>Anyone who went through boot camp in any branch of the US military had at least a day of training on the Geneva Convention, and should understand that the treatment of US prisoners of war may depend on how we treat our captives.  There is a long tradition in the USA for the humane treatment of prisoners of war, and the few times that the US departed from this tradition (i.e. Andersonville in the civil war) were truly dark times for our country.  Nothing good came of it.<br><br>The current regime in Washington never had training on the Geneva convention or its importance, or they weren't paying attention.  For me, being as my dad was in the Phillipines in 1942 and subsequently a Japanese POW who suffered WITHOUT the benefit of the Geneva convention (the Japanese followed the doctrine of Shinto in WW II), this debate has specifal importance to me.  For the first ten years of my life, I was awakened to the screams of my fathers nightmares resulting from his POW treatment.<br><br>If you try to tell me that these new terrorists are a special kind of evil that don't deserve humane treatment, I would suggest that you read a bit of history about what you are talking about.  It is not about being worked up into a lather over your personal &quot;hot-button issue of the day&quot; - it is about our standards as a nation and how the world will view and judge our actions.  Believe it or not, America USED to have the respect and admiration of the world, prior to the actions of the last 7 years, that is.<br><br>Everybody was saddened, angered and even furious at the carnage of 9/11, but if we lose the moral high ground that the USA has worked for over a century to build, we as a nation are worse off, regardless of how many ignorant posters write miles of nonsense on the blogs because it makes them feel good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_11:55:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "57d65ffb925c7a0ac1d21e88fc333899", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, absolutely...Debt of gratitude courtesy of the world's biggest lapdog (Insert any British PM)...World is sooo much safer now, country is in such great shape and we're sooo safe now (Save the erosion of civil liberties, privacy &amp; environment).<br><br>You have to first buy into the argument that Osama or anyone else is the root of 'our' problems before any 'praise' can be directed anywhere...That or you have to consider the irony of the ying &amp; yang of money allocation under Georgie...Oil industries, defense industries and corporate America are curiously showing great bottom lines while the rest of America is suffering in every way imaginable not to mention the wonderful court of world opinion (Outside our puppet governments, i.e. UK) that sees us as the most dangerous country on the planet...But, sure, debt of gratitude...for setting America back a millenium.<br><br>And the next time we see Americans who are captured by foreign governments and organizations being paraded around in blindfolds or tortured by 'enhanced and persuasive' techniques, I'm sure we'll simply have to all again seek out Georgie for our gratitude.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_11:37:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "d2e733b4187e93323e0d1c263f78e728", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey nice objective cartoon up there to objectively illustrate waterboarding.. Only you guys are using the words torture and even brutal.....Sorry ,but harsh and enhanced and persuasive interogation do not equal torture.Hey , no terrorist acts in the USA since Sept11(and no ,the anthrax and global warming scares don't count)As Prime minister Brown of Britain saiys, the world owes a debt of gratitude to Pres Bush", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_11:00:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "9270063e71460d429a9d46fa61c3b5db", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789310": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And why isn't George mentioned in this as someone to be indicted on war crimes as well?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_10:44:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "d2e733b4187e93323e0d1c263f78e728", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1789311": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, AQI, the Abu Sayyef, etc., sign onto the Geneva articles, let me know.  Until then, these un-uniformed, undeclared soldiers and slaughterers of innocent women and children can count on a lot more compassionate treatment than they give.  Ask Danny Pearl about whether he would prefer the most extreme American interrogation or the typical Khalid Sheik Mohammed treatment.<br><br><br><br>3 times waterboarding was approved and used.  If it saved the life of the Obama family, would you support it, or allow the Obamas to be killed by al Qaeda?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_10:44:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "9ef60e7aeaca18c896b0377fc5ee86d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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": "3618878", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "34441", "hash": 2075445571725965052}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "torture_and_the_law", "paginate": true, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 27, "per_page": 50, "total_posts": 27, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3618878, "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.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
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Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, 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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 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
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Dsq.Urls = new function() {
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Dsq.Validators = new function() {
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		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			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">27</span> of <span id="dsq-total-posts">27</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/torture_and_the_law/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" >Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" selected="selected">Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/torture_and_the_law/">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/torture_and_the_law/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:3618878" 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'				: 'torture_and_the_law',
			// 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/torture_and_the_law/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='	+ 'torture_and_the_law'
			+ '&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='	+ 'torture_and_the_law'
			+ '&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='		+ 'torture_and_the_law'
				+ '&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);
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			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/3618878/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
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	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
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		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
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						new_posts.push(post_id);
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			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
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		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
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		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
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		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/washingtonindependent/queueurl.js');
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};

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

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}









(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
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		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
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	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
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	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
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	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
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Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789286">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789286" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789286" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789286">walter77777</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789286" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789286" class="dsq-comment-message">There is a good reason for treating prisoners humanely. A man facing the choice of fighting to the death or surrendering will tend to fight to the death if he fears harsh treatment if he surrenders.  A man who chooses to fight to the death will often take out one or more of his enemies (our guys) before he is killed.  thus decent treatment of POWs tends to reduce our casualties.<br><br><br><br>W.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789287">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789287" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789287" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789287">johnlewismealer</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789287" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789287" class="dsq-comment-message">Everyone needs a little torture now and then. Personally, I prefer a bit of electrical shock...<br><br><br><br>Find a better economi=y based plan than John McCain\'s 3R\'s...<br><br>I dare you.<br><br><br><br>Progressive Candidate John McCain comes through for America with his 3R economic plan. In the aura of Theodore Roosevelt, McCain</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789288">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789288" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789288" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789288">polisigh</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789288" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789288" class="dsq-comment-message">If they can do it, we can do it.  Sounds like the justification from the Court of King George IV and entourage.  The Constitution is just a piece of paper too.<br><br><br><br>There\'s something not quite right about a nation that threaten to torture and murder those who don\'t accept its offer of peace and freedom; did I mention also dangerously juvenile.<br><br><br><br>But stop, wait - for the past 8 years this nation has been in the control of a bizarre dangerous little twerp with a major father hang-up.  An alcoholic drug addict who\'s found J-E-S-U-S.  I\'ve got a big New Flash so has everyone on death row.  I agree with Bill Maher George W. Bush should have to walk home.  And then he should be tried for war crimes against humanity and hanged in effigy in the Court of Public Opinion.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Just because the Nazi didn\'t win WWII doesn\'t mean the President\'s name isn\'t Schikelgrubber.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789289">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789289" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789289" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789289">jimbo</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789289" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789289" class="dsq-comment-message">If we are no longer a nation of laws, WTF have we become? Torture and secret rendition of uncountable innocents does not move us forward toward civilization but away from it toward madness and degenerate, less evolved forms of life.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789290">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789290" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789290" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789290">mclaren</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789290" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789290" class="dsq-comment-message">Well well, sunnyjim, I know a little about the Geneva Conventions myself, and I\'ve forgotten a whole lot more about American History than you have ever learned -- obviously.  I could attempt to educate you and the other horribly misguided, &quot;March to the Gas Chambers With Dignity&quot; types on this and other boards, but what\'s the point?<br><br><br><br>You are blinded by Bush Derangement Syndrome and no amount of clear, concise proof or evidence that collides with your world view will help alleviate your &quot;tortured&quot; conclusions and those of the other angry &quot;hot-button issue&quot; types to which you cling.<br><br><br><br>Is it possible that the Khalid Sheik Mohammeds of the world aren\'t built like your father or other gentlemen of Western-World fame?  Is it possible that those who know how to extract information don\'t start with water-boarding, but with techniques that more resemble Cpl. Hanns Scharff of WWII Luftwaffe fame?<br><br><br><br>What I know hasn\'t occurred to you is that 3,000 American lives are worth immeasurably more than the life or opinion of 1 jihadist.  You don\'t get that, and you and your ilk never will.  You are incapable of making a moral judgment.  You are incapable of judging for in that, you might have to live up to said judgment.  The neo-liberal will not or can not take a moral stand against anything other than his or her country, because everything is morally relative.  It is an illness, and I know, because I once suffered greatly under it.<br><br><br><br>Wake up.  We are better than jihadists.  Not because we would treat them better, but because we would at least give them a chance, unlike what they would do for you and your father or mother or child.<br><br><br><br>The fact is that waterboarding -- not torture -- worked to save lives.  Please go on record that you would rather watch innocent children die than have your &quot;image&quot; damaged in some Marxist cafe\' in Paris.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789291">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789291" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789291" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789291">sketchley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789291" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789291" class="dsq-comment-message">The terrorist state par excellence putting its own torturers and terrorists on trial is obviously not going to happen. But as Philippe Sands has recently said, these crimninals had better remain within their own borders for the rest of their lives, for there is a whole army of us out here who will be making sure that if any of these criminals takes one step outside the terrorist state\'s borders they will be arrested under international torture and genocide legislation, as their own country will not bring them to justice: &quot;The judge and prosecutor were particularly struck by the immunity from prosecution provided by the Military Commissions Act.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789292">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789292" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789292" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789292">spencer_ackerman</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789292" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789292" class="dsq-comment-message">Can we not have comments here accusing John McCain of selling out the country while he was a POW? That\'s disgusting. Stick to the issue please.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789293">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789293" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789293" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789293">pimothy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789293" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789293" class="dsq-comment-message">This sordid chapter started back at yale when pledges hides were branded by cigarett burns. Also with exploding frogs by way of firecrackers.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789294">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789294" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789294" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789294">ichabodcrane</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789294" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789294" class="dsq-comment-message">Think back to the 9/11 attacks:<br><br>On the morning of 9/11 when the president was notified of the attacks while talking with children in a classroom in Florida, he completely froze for a full 5 minutes before the Secret Service led a still obviously stunned president out of the room. (The scene was shown on network TV several times that morning, but I\'ve never seen it since.) Our fearless leader then made a mad dash to Air Force One and flew off quickly, not to New York or Washington DC, but to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana! I\'m sure the whole nation was relieved in those desperately uncertain hours to know that at least our commander-in-chief was somewhere safe.<br><br>Meanwhile, Our courageous Veep rapidly got himself to a secure bunker in an &quot;undisclosed location&quot; where he hid out for several days until it was evident that any danger was past.<br><br>Such examples of courage and leadership are truly an inspiration for the generations!<br><br>But, the two most astonishing things are:<br>1. These goons got reelected in 2004, and<br>2. No Republican politician since 9/11 seems to have asked the question, &quot;Where\'s Bin Laden?&quot;</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789295">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789295" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789295" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789295">pmorlan</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789295" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789295" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope that we can all agree that no matter what our opinion is on this issue that we all recognize how important it is for our country to know exactly what our government officials did or did not do in our names. As President Reagan once said, &quot;Trust but verify&quot;. Having a full, fair investigation into the torture question is not only prudent but the only way to ensure government accountability to the people.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789296">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789296" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789296" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789296">staunchdem</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789296" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789296" class="dsq-comment-message">No doubt about it torture does work.<br><br>Just ask John McKKKain.<br><br>When he was a POW he was known as &quot;Songbird&quot;<br><br>POWs who were incarcerrated with him say he gave up bomber routes which got a bunch of our pilots and crew killed.<br><br>Just Google John McCain Songbird and see for yourself.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1789297">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1789297" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1789297" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789297">sunnyjim</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1789297" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789297" class="dsq-comment-message">Magi91711 said:<br><br>I lost a friend in the towers. If waterboarding or anything short of pulling out some guys fingernails could have stopped he and 3000 other guitless individuals from being incinerated, I would have gladly walked to the spicket.<br><br>- - - end quote - - -<br><br>I would have run, no, sprinted - to beat you to the spicket, IF &quot;..waterboarding or anything short of pulling out some guys fingernails could have stopped..&quot; 9/11 and saved those lives who were not only guitless, but also included way too many of those who were Americas best heroes.   I don\'t think that there is a sentient being on this continent that would disagree with you on that.  But that is a very big IF.<br><br>But the point (to me) is that it is only in the movies that torture-obtained information does any good and save the day.<br><br>In real life, if we the people demand an accountable and transparent government, then maybe we would find out what, if any, response happened to the memo to the POTUS titled &quot;OBL Determined to fly planes into US buildings this summer&quot; one month before 9/11 . Was it really just ignored?  Really?  It bothers me that I don\'t know more about that.  I don\'t like secretive government.<br><br>How about the Colorado FBI agent who was onto the &quot;terrorists are in flight school&quot; plot and got shut down by the FBI uber-dudes in Washington D.C..  Just office politics, or what?  I wish I knew.<br><br>How about decades of neglect of our immigration policies allowing (how many? - more than half) the 9/11 nineteen terrorists to remain in the US past the end of their visas?  I read that 10 of them had been pulled over by local law enforcement on traffic issues in the six months before 9/11 - what if their illegal visa status had come up on the screen for the officer?  And what if he had authority to detain them for ICE?<br><br>What if there were an armed air marshall on every flight.  Some flights, two armed air marshalls.<br><br>But the issue in front of us involves our loss of the best part of the idea of America.  If our leaders conspired to take away my valued legacy of living in a humane country, then I want them held accountable by the same law that they would apply to you or me.<br><br>&quot;Give in to your hatred and your journey to the dark side will be complete.  ~ Emporer Palpatine&quot; ...IS just a line from a movie, but the idea might have some application here in the real world.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789298" class="dsq-comment-message">&quot;Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people\'s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. [Applause] When independent- thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the &quot;Nation,&quot; it\'s time for all of us to sit up and worry.<br><br><br><br>To call someone &quot;anti-American&quot;, indeed to be anti-American, (or for that matter, anti-Indian or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it\'s a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those the establishment has set out for you. If you\'re not a Bushie you\'re a Taliban. If you don\'t love us, you hate us. If you\'re not Good, you\'re Evil. If you\'re not with us, you\'re with the terrorists.&quot;<br><br><br><br>-Arundhati Roy</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789299" class="dsq-comment-message">The supreme arrogance and ignorance of the people of America is that they erroneously believe that they should be the ones bringing freedom and democracy to the people and nations of this world.<br><br>I\'ll always continue believing that this natural ignorance comes from an inherent ultra-patriotism/ultra-nationalism. This is the belief instilled in every American, from birth to death, that there can be no greater citizen, no greater country, and no greater way of life than America.<br><br>This criminal Bush &quot;administration&quot; has deviously and immorally used patriotic propaganda to manipulate public perception into supporting its illegal aggressions, to strip away the civil liberties and rights of Americans. When someone speaks against these fascist policies, they\'re labeled unpatriotic.<br><br>You want to end this war? Start by consistently showing the American public the daily effects of it on the Iraqi population. Without censure. Show the blown-up bodies. Show the dead and wounded children. Show the grieving families. Anyone who criticizes this as blatantly indecent, should question the decency of what America has forced upon Iraq.<br><br>If the American public was truly exposed to the realities of what their government and politicians subject the peoples of other nations to, they would not be so quick to send their sons and daughters off to war, and they would think twice about the decency of their own morals and &quot;Christian values&quot;.<br><br>The American mainstream media is complicit to this unnecessary war. They have failed both the innocent citizens of America and Iraq. Shame on them forever.<br><br>Bush and Cheney won\'t be impeached and they will suffer no repercussions after leaving office because they are Americans leading their country in a time of so-called &quot;war&quot;. Simply put, American ultra-patriotism will save them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789300" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry, I just realized that posted twice. I hit the button twice. How do I delete one copy?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789301" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh man oh man. mclaren, magi91711, and all who agree with them: here\'s a couple points to consider. Aside from Sunnyjim\'s excellent point about how our behavior puts our troops in danger, consider these things before you argue in favor of torture:<br><br><br><br>1 - torture DOES NOT WORK. I think this has been pointed out before but it\'s worth repeating, since most of the defenses of torture I\'ve come across rest on the idea that info gained through torture can save lives or some such BS. This is completely false as any competent interrogator - or even psychologist or historian - could tell you. (Also, the usual ticking-bomb scenario usually cited as rationale is extremely unrealistic outside of Hollywood.) The victim will say anything to make the pain stop, a fact which makes any \'information\' gained by such methods highly unreliable. This is one of many reasons \'evidence\' gained by torture is usually inadmissible in civilized courts. Arguing that torture is ok if it\'s for \'good purposes\' also BTW is an argument for the end justifying the means, which history has shown to be a dangerous and usually vile notion.<br><br><br><br>2 - torture is so widely condemned because it denies the humanity of the victim and their inalienable rights not to be subjected to excruciating, dehumanizing treatment. Take a look at the work of a respected scholar on the subject of pain, say Elaine Scarry, and tell me torture is not dehumanizing. There are also arguments to be made that it dehumanizes the torturer, and things like the Winter Soldier testimony (though not specifically about just torture) I think gives credence to this. Torture is immoral and nauseating. Period.<br><br><br><br>3 - arguing for torture is also arguing in favor of violating both US and international law. And claiming &quot;enhanced interrogation&quot; techniques aren\'t torture is exactly the kind of BS this administration is using to shield itself from the very real threat of legal consequences. It is EUPHEMISM, nothing more. Waterboarding - one of the techniques is question - is certainly to be considered torture just on the basis of past cases in US law. The US has executed people for using it - it is certainly illegal under the terms of normal US law. Experts have also made clear that many of the techniques in question do constitute torture, whether physical or psychological. Ask Jose Padilla if being locked in a bare cell and subjected to sensory deprivation isn\'t torture - except he can\'t really answer you. He\'s been driven insane by said techniques. (And no, I\'m making no claims as to his guilt/innocence or justifying any possible crimes; I\'m using him as an example of the REAL EFFECTS of these methods only.) Ask Vietnam POWs what constitutes torture. Does rape count? How about threats of rape and death in a situation where clearly they could happen? Threats of violence to one\'s family? Being chained and hit until you lose consciousness? Hung by the wrists for hours? Not torture? Even if you die? Being doused in freezing water and left in below-0 temperatures so that your legs have to be amputated? (It\'s been done.) How about having your children tortured in front of you? That\'s something the Yoo-Bybee memos specifically mention. I could go on but you get the idea. Also consider the fact that the techniques in question with &quot;enhanced interrogation&quot; are not permitted under the US Army Field Manual - THE guide to operating procedure for the treatment of prisoners. Consider why Bush had to create a separate &quot;enemy combatant&quot; status for &quot;detainees&quot; specifically exempting them from legal protections like the Geneva Conventions - if such techniques weren\'t torture they would be admissible under the GC and hence no special status would be necessary. Don\'t play with words: we are talking about TORTURE.<br><br><br><br>4 - while I\'m sure the pain of those who lost friends and relatives in 9/11 is very real and I do not in any way attack them for being angry - I wish I could do more to help them with their grief - arguing in favor of torture merely out of revenge desires, while understandable, does not advance us as a nation or as individuals with moral consciousness. Revenge is the justification of terrorist acts like 9/11. No, I\'m not calling anyone a terrorist or denying their RIGHT to be angry and WANT revenge; I have such feelings myself. I\'m only saying that ACTING solely out of such feelings rather than from a place of rationality and desire for JUSTICE places us on the same level as those who murdered 3,000+ people on 9/11. Is this what we want? Aren\'t we called upon as human beings to master ourselves and treat our enemies better than they treat us?<br><br><br><br>Look, if my mother or father or friend died in 9/11, I\'d want to roast every damn possible accomplice on a slow spit and law be damned. I\'d WANT it. If I were an interrogator or were given access to possible accomplices, I\'m not certain I would be able to resist giving them some \'payback.\' Especially if I were told I wouldn\'t face consequences. But even in that situation, even if it was me myself, I would STILL from the standpoint of justice consider my acts immoral and worthy of punishment. I might try to justify it to myself at the time, but I\'ve thought about it and I still believe I\'d be guilty. Let that make it clear I\'m not attacking people angry about 9/11 or anything; I\'m attacking the pernicious beliefs and attitudes that make it seem like torture is in any way &quot;all right.&quot; That is exactly the kind of thinking that we are supposedly fighting against in our struggle against terrorism.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789302" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh man oh man. mclaren, magi91711, and all who agree with them: here\'s a couple points to consider. Aside from Sunnyjim\'s excellent point about how our behavior puts our troops in danger, consider these things before you argue in favor of torture:<br><br><br><br>1 - torture DOES NOT WORK. I think this has been pointed out before but it\'s worth repeating, since most of the defenses of torture I\'ve come across rest on the idea that info gained through torture can save lives or some such BS. This is completely false as any competent interrogator - or even psychologist or historian - could tell you. (Also, the usual ticking-bomb scenario usually cited as rationale is extremely unrealistic outside of Hollywood.) The victim will say anything to make the pain stop, a fact which makes any \'information\' gained by such methods highly unreliable. This is one of many reasons \'evidence\' gained by torture is usually inadmissible in civilized courts. Arguing that torture is ok if it\'s for \'good purposes\' also BTW is an argument for the end justifying the means, which history has shown to be a dangerous and usually vile notion.<br><br><br><br>2 - torture is so widely condemned because it denies the humanity of the victim and their inalienable rights not to be subjected to excruciating, dehumanizing treatment. Take a look at the work of a respected scholar on the subject of pain, say Elaine Scarry, and tell me torture is not dehumanizing. There are also arguments to be made that it dehumanizes the torturer, and things like the Winter Soldier testimony (though not specifically about just torture) I think gives credence to this. Torture is immoral and nauseating. Period.<br><br><br><br>3 - arguing for torture is also arguing in favor of violating both US and international law. And claiming &quot;enhanced interrogation&quot; techniques aren\'t torture is exactly the kind of BS this administration is using to shield itself from the very real threat of legal consequences. It is EUPHEMISM, nothing more. Waterboarding - one of the techniques is question - is certainly to be considered torture just on the basis of past cases in US law. The US has executed people for using it - it is certainly illegal under the terms of normal US law. Experts have also made clear that many of the techniques in question do constitute torture, whether physical or psychological. Ask Jose Padilla if being locked in a bare cell and subjected to sensory deprivation isn\'t torture - except he can\'t really answer you. He\'s been driven insane by said techniques. (And no, I\'m making no claims as to his guilt/innocence or justifying any possible crimes; I\'m using him as an example of the REAL EFFECTS of these methods only.) Ask Vietnam POWs what constitutes torture. Does rape count? How about threats of rape and death in a situation where clearly they could happen? Threats of violence to one\'s family? Being chained and hit until you lose consciousness? Hung by the wrists for hours? Not torture? Even if you die? Being doused in freezing water and left in below-0 temperatures so that your legs have to be amputated? (It\'s been done.) How about having your children tortured in front of you? That\'s something the Yoo-Bybee memos specifically mention. I could go on but you get the idea. Also consider the fact that the techniques in question with &quot;enhanced interrogation&quot; are not permitted under the US Army Field Manual - THE guide to operating procedure for the treatment of prisoners. Consider why Bush had to create a separate &quot;enemy combatant&quot; status for &quot;detainees&quot; specifically exempting them from legal protections like the Geneva Conventions - if such techniques weren\'t torture they would be admissible under the GC and hence no special status would be necessary. Don\'t play with words: we are talking about TORTURE.<br><br><br><br>4 - while I\'m sure the pain of those who lost friends and relatives in 9/11 is very real and I do not in any way attack them for being angry - I wish I could do more to help them with their grief - arguing in favor of torture merely out of revenge desires, while understandable, does not advance us as a nation or as individuals with moral consciousness. Revenge is the justification of terrorist acts like 9/11. No, I\'m not calling anyone a terrorist or denying their RIGHT to be angry and WANT revenge; I have such feelings myself. I\'m only saying that ACTING solely out of such feelings rather than from a place of rationality and desire for JUSTICE places us on the same level as those who murdered 3,000+ people on 9/11. Is this what we want? Aren\'t we called upon as human beings to master ourselves and treat our enemies better than they treat us?<br><br><br><br>Look, if my mother or father or friend died in 9/11, I\'d want to roast every damn possible accomplice on a slow spit and law be damned. I\'d WANT it. If I were an interrogator or were given access to possible accomplices, I\'m not certain I would be able to resist giving them some \'payback.\' Especially if I were told I wouldn\'t face consequences. But even in that situation, even if it was me myself, I would STILL from the standpoint of justice consider my acts immoral and worthy of punishment. I might try to justify it to myself at the time, but I\'ve thought about it and I still believe I\'d be guilty. Let that make it clear I\'m not attacking people angry about 9/11 or anything; I\'m attacking the pernicious beliefs and attitudes that make it seem like torture is in any way &quot;all right.&quot; That is exactly the kind of thinking that we are supposedly fighting against in our struggle against terrorism.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789303" class="dsq-comment-message">Magi91711, I just have two questions for you. 1)Where is Osama Bin Laden? 2) Who would Jesus Torture?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789304" class="dsq-comment-message">We can allow the cancer from this war-without-end to eat away at eveything we value about our country: truth, justice, honor, integrity and the value of each human life.  Or, we can quietly say to ourselves: &quot;No.  I will not be deterred any longer by phrases such as \'lack of political will,\' \'special kind of enemy,\' \'one person cannot change things,\' etc., etc.  Whatever another person is content to ignore makes no difference.  I need to be able to look myself in the mirror.  So I have committed to do at least one thing every day since the president issued his &quot;So WHAT?&quot; retort.  Read another article on torture or watch a video about it that I would rather shy away from.  E-mail my congressman and both senators each week.  Contact friends and e-mail them on this topic.  I keep voter registration forms in my bag to sign up people who say they care, but have not even registered.  I joined the A.C.L.U. and signed the petition they are sponsoring for a special prosecutor on this topic.  I realize that I could do these little things until doomsday and still not make a nickel\'s worth of difference.  But, at long last, I cannot sit still, and I cannot look away.  Even the thought of doing nothing at all makes me feel I am aiding and abetting the people who tortured in our name, and that makes me sick at heart.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789305" class="dsq-comment-message">As Marine Corps Naval Aviator Viet Vet I agree with Sunnyjim.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789306" class="dsq-comment-message">I lost a friend in the towers. If waterboarding or anything short of pulling out some guys fingernails could have stopped he and 3000 other guitless individuals from being incinerated, I would have gladly walked to the spicket.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789307" class="dsq-comment-message">mclaren -  and all of you other ignorant posters who think you are &quot;experts&quot; on torture.<br><br>The use of torture has nothing to do with the person being tortured and how evil you think they are - it is all about who we are as Americans.<br><br>George Washington in the Revolutionary War secured better conditions for American POWs by letting the British know that if they didn\'t treat US captives better, things would get worse for British POWs.  Besides, intelligence professionals will tell you that torture does not work to secure reliable intelligence - the tortured will say anything to make the pain stop.<br><br>Anyone who went through boot camp in any branch of the US military had at least a day of training on the Geneva Convention, and should understand that the treatment of US prisoners of war may depend on how we treat our captives.  There is a long tradition in the USA for the humane treatment of prisoners of war, and the few times that the US departed from this tradition (i.e. Andersonville in the civil war) were truly dark times for our country.  Nothing good came of it.<br><br>The current regime in Washington never had training on the Geneva convention or its importance, or they weren\'t paying attention.  For me, being as my dad was in the Phillipines in 1942 and subsequently a Japanese POW who suffered WITHOUT the benefit of the Geneva convention (the Japanese followed the doctrine of Shinto in WW II), this debate has specifal importance to me.  For the first ten years of my life, I was awakened to the screams of my fathers nightmares resulting from his POW treatment.<br><br>If you try to tell me that these new terrorists are a special kind of evil that don\'t deserve humane treatment, I would suggest that you read a bit of history about what you are talking about.  It is not about being worked up into a lather over your personal &quot;hot-button issue of the day&quot; - it is about our standards as a nation and how the world will view and judge our actions.  Believe it or not, America USED to have the respect and admiration of the world, prior to the actions of the last 7 years, that is.<br><br>Everybody was saddened, angered and even furious at the carnage of 9/11, but if we lose the moral high ground that the USA has worked for over a century to build, we as a nation are worse off, regardless of how many ignorant posters write miles of nonsense on the blogs because it makes them feel good.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789308">fcukbsuh</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789308" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, absolutely...Debt of gratitude courtesy of the world\'s biggest lapdog (Insert any British PM)...World is sooo much safer now, country is in such great shape and we\'re sooo safe now (Save the erosion of civil liberties, privacy &amp; environment).<br><br>You have to first buy into the argument that Osama or anyone else is the root of \'our\' problems before any \'praise\' can be directed anywhere...That or you have to consider the irony of the ying &amp; yang of money allocation under Georgie...Oil industries, defense industries and corporate America are curiously showing great bottom lines while the rest of America is suffering in every way imaginable not to mention the wonderful court of world opinion (Outside our puppet governments, i.e. UK) that sees us as the most dangerous country on the planet...But, sure, debt of gratitude...for setting America back a millenium.<br><br>And the next time we see Americans who are captured by foreign governments and organizations being paraded around in blindfolds or tortured by \'enhanced and persuasive\' techniques, I\'m sure we\'ll simply have to all again seek out Georgie for our gratitude.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789309">jackfish</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789309" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey nice objective cartoon up there to objectively illustrate waterboarding.. Only you guys are using the words torture and even brutal.....Sorry ,but harsh and enhanced and persuasive interogation do not equal torture.Hey , no terrorist acts in the USA since Sept11(and no ,the anthrax and global warming scares don\'t count)As Prime minister Brown of Britain saiys, the world owes a debt of gratitude to Pres Bush</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789310">fcukbsuh</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789310" class="dsq-comment-message">And why isn\'t George mentioned in this as someone to be indicted on war crimes as well?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789311">mclaren</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789311" class="dsq-comment-message">When al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, AQI, the Abu Sayyef, etc., sign onto the Geneva articles, let me know.  Until then, these un-uniformed, undeclared soldiers and slaughterers of innocent women and children can count on a lot more compassionate treatment than they give.  Ask Danny Pearl about whether he would prefer the most extreme American interrogation or the typical Khalid Sheik Mohammed treatment.<br><br><br><br>3 times waterboarding was approved and used.  If it saved the life of the Obama family, would you support it, or allow the Obamas to be killed by al Qaeda?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1789312">stonepier</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1789312" class="dsq-comment-message">But.....but.....can people be tried &amp; convicted &amp; thrown in jail if they\'re wearing flag lapel pins???</div>\
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Dsq.Debug.profile(function() {
	if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page == 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.is_initial_load) {
		Dsq.container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.header() + Dsq.container.innerHTML + Dsq.Templates.footer();
	}
	Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML = Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
}); // Dsq.Debug.Profile

// HACK: Resetting cache because we're done with.
Dsq.Utils.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = null;


	
	
	var dsq_styleEl = document.getElementById(disqus_container_id);
	var dsq_anchorEl = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
	
	Dsq.Thread.fc = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, 'color');
	if(dsq_anchorEl) { Dsq.Thread.ac = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_anchorEl, 'color'); }
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, (Dsq.Utils.ie || window.opera ? 'fontFamily' : 'font-family'));
	// For Safari / Opera: strip quotes.
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Thread.ff.replace(/['"]/g, '');
	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=washingtonindependent&t=torture_and_the_law&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	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');
}

})();




