An update of a different sort

I see down in a comment thread that some questions have been raised about my (and my friends') opposition to Alberto Gonzalez appointment as Attorney General and how Abu Ghraib factors into these considerations.

Hoping to explain, I quote one paragraph from Newsweek:

The story begins in the months after September 11, when a small band of conservative lawyers within the Bush administration staked out a forward-leaning legal position. The attacks by Al Qaeda on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, these lawyers said, had plunged the country into a new kind of war. It was a conflict against a vast, outlaw, international enemy in which the rules of war, international treaties and even the Geneva Conventions did not apply. These positions were laid out in secret legal opinions drafted by lawyers from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, and then endorsed by the Department of Defense and ultimately by White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, according to copies of the opinions and other internal legal memos obtained by NEWSWEEK.

And remember, kids, with Iraq's elections coming up, Israel-Palestine relations at a crucial juncture, rather obvious evidence of government funded propaganda, and a few econmic problems worth considering, social security is what must be overhauled and privatized now! Fun times, these.