The following is my commentary concerning, "UN Official Demands Torture Accountability," (by Edger. Antemedius.com. July 2, 2009) and specifically Edger's comment at the end of that post as follows, "Where is the line between avoiding the issue, and becoming complicit and an accessory?"

Hi Edger,

Yours is an excellently posed question: "Where is the line between avoiding the issue, and becoming complicit and an accessory?" There is definitely an element of "damned if you do, and damned if you don't" in Obama's tightrope walking. His handlers and he are trying to get away with not calling a spade a spade -- not calling waterboarding and other "harsh interrogation techniques" what they are: torture. Due to Obama's approach to life (his severely deficient worldview), he cannot roundly expose and denounce all the lies going back to the beginning of time while at the same time calling for peace and reconciliation without being directly confronted with having to include his stated arch enemies, the Pashtuns, he has conflated with the Taliban, conflated with al Qaeda, ignored as a CIA creation.

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Harry Reid was born (1939) and raised in Searchlight, which is a small mining town in Clark County, Nevada, roughly 58 miles southwest of Las Vegas, which also is a part of Clark County. Reid's home town, where the gold mines have been dormant since the 1950's, had a population of 576 according to the 2000 Census. Overall, Nevada had a population estimated at 1,998,257 in 2000, and Clark County with 68.85% of the total state population, concentrated around Las Vegas, had 1,375,765 residents.

In the 2000 Census the total population of the United States was calculated as 281,421,906 residents. Using these figures, Democrat Harry Reid shares with his Senate colleague Republican John Ensign, a constituency that comprises .007% of the total population of the country, and 68.85% of those constituents live in the greater Las Vegas area. In January of 2009 the Nevada secretary of state reports there were 542,902 registered Democrats (44% of the state electorate), 438,747 registered Republicans (36% of the state electorate) and 252,916 registered Independents or other (20% of the state electorate).

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