September 29, 2006:

Congress gave the President what he wanted, the right to torture, to suspend habeas corpus, and to protect CIA agents and Administration officials from being prosecuted for war crimes. It should be noted that several Republicans who voted for it were originally against it... yet I don't hear any chants of "flip-flop" form the media.

Our "War on Terror" should be renamed our "War on Freedom" because everything this administration has enacted since 9-11 has moved us farther away from the country we used to be. We used to be seen as a shining example of Democracy for the whole world to envy. Now, as was painfully evident at the last session of the U.N., the rest of the world either hates us or simply tolerates us.

We Americans are supposed to be better than all the thugs, dictators and terrorists out there. But with each passing day, we are simply stooping lower to their level. You know, for as much as I dislike our President and feel ashamed at what our country has become, I always warned people of crossing that line and calling Bush or Republicans "Nazis" or "evil". It only cheapens the discourse makes the accuser sound like a wingnut. However, with these steps that make torture and indefinite detentions legal, we are becoming more and more like those despotic regimes we claim to try and liberate the "other" from. This is not the America that fought WWII or stood up to the Soviet Union.

Now, what makes us better than the Taliba, or North Korea, or bin Ladin?

We were a country of laws and moral values. Now we are changing those laws once we find ourselves unable to meet those standards. Our government and our leaders decry anyone who doesn't comply with their agenda as "with the terrorists."

At this point, with your current actions and rhetoric, one could easily say that it is you, Mr. President, who is more with the terrorists.