JP merits nothing more than being ignored, Merlin. It will only encourage him.

Well, tom, sometimes when the troll hangs around and says really silly things, the urge to have fun overwhems my sense of reason. Having fun with trolls is their only redeeming feature, after all.
And BTW, your responses #77 and #78 said some important things that the general readership of lookie loos can benefit from. That audience is many times greater than the number of those of us who post here.

So, in retrospect, it depends on the type of response one gives. It is not always a bad thing to respond to a troll. The caviat is that you need to be aware of what you are doing. For instance, I will not respond to the trolls #74. To do so would be non productive.

FTA: Former CIA officer John Kiriakou led the raid, which captured the al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, told CBS News he and at least one other CIA officer refused to use the harsh interrogation techniques.

That job, he said, was turned over to retired commandos under contract to the CIA.

Who are these “retired commandos”? Blackwater, hmmm?

No wonder Rice won’t comment.

’tis to laugh.

tombaker…can’t handle defending your positions??? Amusing.

CIA torturer incriminates self during interview with ABC
by calipygian
Mon Dec 10, 2007 at 02:32:34 PM PST

No wonder Condi is backing away from the torture deal. The whole mess is unravelling rapidly. This guy was the “head dude” in charge of waterboarding “the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah”.

There are only so many word combinations to say “I don’t recall”, after awhile they just become more absurd and cumbersome.

There is that smell of desperation I was talking about in #61. The really neat thing is that they really know how bad it is, all the while keeping “the upper lip stiff” as the British would say. What they don’t yet realize is how bad they really look while doing their deniability trip.

Now that we have got that settled, lets have some truthful debate!

There is no point in debating with conservatives, neocons, or BushCo enablers. They all spout talking points that are not democratic. Their intent is to push for an aristocracy which comes in hyerarchical form, with them at the top and all the rest of us at the bottom, to be used and abused by them.

And regarding “truthful”. You, a BushCo enabler???

BwaaaaHaaaaHaaaa

You enablers don’t know the meaning of the word.

But do come back after the blowout election of 2008, and provide some comic relief by repeating the crap you spew today.

Give me a break. All the Bush Crime Family knew what was going on. They were the ones who ordered the destruction of the tapes. They have ordered the destruction of any record that would end up putting them in jail.

What I don’t understand is why the public isn’t howling about all this. First they can’t find the logs of visitors to the Whitehouse, then they destroy them and then they stop keeping them. Next they “lost” millions of e-mails that undoubtedly contained their misdeeds. And now they destroy tapes of torture. How much more are the sheeple going to take before they storm the bastions of the Whitehouse and take back our country?