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And after that touchy-feely moment, let’s bring us back to an answer to the “why.”

Military officials have released a “torture manual” that was discovered in an Al-Qaeda torture room alongside a man who had been tortured.  Call me crazy, but “blowtorch to the skin,” “drilling hands,” and “eye removal” seems a far cry from “put underwear on head and make listen to Eminem” or “act like you are flushing the Koran” or “give new prayer rug, new Koran, and three squares a day.”

Warning: graphic.

They will not let up.  Perhaps this is the reason that the troops on the ground want to keep fighting, and the folks at home who are starting to get bored of American Idol don’t see the point.