p>Enjoyed your article and concur with your comments. br> -- Kathryn /p> p> IDENTITY POLITICS br> Re: Quin Hillyer's Please Torture Me : /p> Current interrogation techniques are less tough than the methods the U.S. military uses to train its own personnel. No interrogator wants a long stay in Fort Leavenworth and an interview by Larry King. If I had to chose, I would p>BTW, I have been unimpressed by Sen. Lindsey Graham ever since the Clinton impeachment hearings in 1998, when then Representative Graham played it just a bit too cool. br> -- Name Withheld br> Former U.S. Army interrogator in Iraq /p> Mr. Hillyer, you have been waist deep in politics at various levels long enough to know how people like Sen. Graham get their minds changed. I am perfectly prepared to take you word for the "real" issue that is stuck in the Senator's craw. I certainly do not know. I would suggest, however, that the solution to the problem of getting Sen. Graham to at least quit fighting the Haynes nomination has been available for more than enough time to have accomplished the task. Unfortunately, we currently have a president that refuses to use common political practices accepted on both sides of the aisle to confront his opponents. Lindsey Graham has had numerous things that he has wanted the White House to accommodate him on. I would ask you, Quin, how many of those things has he lost White House co-operation on due to his intransigence? It has long been obvious that Sen. Graham is little more than an obedient puppy dog to Sen. McCain. Is it really McCain that is behind the denial of a judgeship for Mr. Haynes? If not, then why hasn't the President used the many pressures available to him to cause McCain to rein in Graham? p>I find it simply incredible that the President of the United States cannot perform a successful "come to Jesus" intervention on an ambitious Senator of his own party. I could list for you a whole plethora of political leaders in both parties, starting with FDR and coming forward, that would have long since dispensed with this problem. I am sincerely hoping that the good people of South Carolina will solve this problem for our country at the very next possible occasion. br> -- Ken Shreve /p> p> Miss Lindsey Graham, handmaiden to Senator McCain, has set her sights on the position of Attorney General in a McCain Administration. Poor ol' Lindsey has fallen far since her days on the House Impeachment Committee. She used to be a good Conservative. That went by the way when she became a Prancing, Preening Senator with a very large ego. I mourn our loss. br> -- Judy Beumler James, Jimmy, the Jimster, Jimbolaya...lighten up! I think the problem with "you critics" (I'm lumping you all together), is you lose sight of some of the simple pleasures in life. Any Average Joe, watching a commercial for Deck the Halls, can surmise that they are not going to see an epic motion picture, should they decide to view Deck the Halls. They are going to see a Christmas-time-of-year, slapstick comedy. Once the Average Joe sees the commercial, he is either content with that notion and will consider going to see said movie...or, he will not, perhaps looking for more substance, as you obviously were. p> Deck the Halls is a goofy, run of the mill comedy, and they make that pretty obvious in their commercials. I can picture you copiously taking notes in a dark theater and noting things like "number of Xmas lights unrealistic," "power source not sufficient for number of lights," "sleigh scene would never happen in real life," "Danny Devito's wife way too hot for Danny Devito, unless she married for money...and he appears to have no money," "valuable vase would Never be sitting in the open such as it is," br> "note to self: check to see if any real trees were harmed in the making of this motion picture," etc. /p> I don't believe Deck the Halls camouflages itself to be something that it is not. However, "you critics" (there I go again) have a way of constantly dishing out this "if ONLY I had made this movie, I WOULD HAVE," type attitude. If you had made it, it I'm sure it would have been a much deeper and much more boring affair. I imagine you "don't get" the Three Stooges, either. Perhaps you should stick to critiquing European art house flicks... p>I saw Deck the Halls with my son and it was fun --not rocket science, just fun. br> -- RR br> Wisconsin /p> Hollywood, running short of sizzling ideas for Christmas movies?