I took the weekend off from all blogging, and now that I'm back I see that several people are saying that Gary Boatwright is actually me (or vice versa)? He somehow answered a question that was in reply to me, which seems to have started it.

I'd just like to go on the record stating that I am me. No one else.

I don't know how to prove this, but I guess anyone who wants to can go through my posting history here, as well as look at my ID on kos, TPMCafe, Booman, etc.

I don't know any other way to clear the confusion.

I guess I missed a lot this weekend, huh?

(Sorry to waste a diary on this, but I felt I should at least go on the record and try and clear this up.)

Cindy Sheehan has a simple question for the President:

Is Iraq a noble cause?

Moderate Democrats who advocate a "stay the course" plan for Iraq also have a responsibility to answer the same question.

So, is Iraq a noble cause?

DLC:

Democrats should also bring a sense of proportion to the prisoner abuse scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. ... Yet the revelation that some U.S. troops aren't saints should not come as too great a shock, at least to grownups. By dwelling obsessively on U.S. misdeeds while ignoring the far more heinous crimes of what is quite possibly the most barbaric insurgency in modern times, anti-war critics betray an anti-American bias that undercuts their credibility.

Military:

Rear Adm. Michael F. Lohr, the Navy's chief lawyer, wrote on Feb. 6, 2003, that while detainees at Guantánamo Bay might not qualify for international protections, "Will the American people find we have missed the forest for the trees by condoning practices that, while technically legal, are inconsistent with our most fundamental values?"

Brig. Gen. Kevin M. Sandkuhler, a senior Marine lawyer, said in a Feb. 27, 2003, memorandum that all the military lawyers believed the harsh interrogation regime could have adverse consequences for American service members. General Sandkuhler said that the Justice Department "does not represent the services; thus, understandably, concern for service members is not reflected in their opinion."

Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Romig, the Army's top-ranking uniformed lawyer, said in a March 3, 2003, memorandum that the approach recommended by the Justice Department "will open us up to criticism that the U.S. is a law unto itself."

Emphasise mine.

Seems that the Military takes the issue of torture a lot more seriously than the DLC.

I wonder why?