CNN is currently running this article: Bush vetoes bill banning waterboarding.

President Bush has vetoed a bill that would ban interrogation techniques that Congress feels are torture, inhumane, cruel, or otherwise inappropriate for our nation to be participating in. To quote:
"The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror," Bush said in his weekly radio address taped for broadcast Saturday. "So today I vetoed it," Bush said.

Apparently giving the CIA the power to torture detainees is a vital requirement to keeping terrorists from blowing us up. How can this man be so delusional as to claim that we're bringing a better way of life to the countries we're occupying when we have stooped to the same level as the "terrorists" we're supposedly fighting? Apparently Bush has long since abandoned any of the ideals of modern Christianity (of which he is a supposedly practicing member) and has regressed to the Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth; all transgressions against the law will be met with death.

This is even more ridiculous because the Army recognizes that these "interrogation techniques" are inappropriate: . . . the Army field manual contends that harsh interrogation is a "poor technique that yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say what he thinks the (interrogator) wants to hear."

If you'd listen to Bush, torture is the only thing keeping our country safe from terrorists attacks at this point. If that's the case one needs to seriously consider where that means we're heading as a nation. We've abandoned the principles that this country was founded on in the name of security. Unless the next administration works hard to reverse the perversions of our Constitution we will quickly find ourselves in a police state; no privacy, no freedom.

How can so many people in this country still be so blind to the disturbing destruction of our civil liberties that the Bush administration has led? How can so many people be so naive to think that these things "only affect the bad guys"? Have we completely forgotten how Hitler's Germany came to be? Little by little, piece by piece. He started by getting power by convincing the people that he could make them safe and provide for their well being. Then he turned them against an "enemy", and once he had control he slowly expanded who the "enemy" was. How long will it take before the definition of "terrorist" includes people that participate in "secret religious rituals" such as those performed in every LDS Temple in the world? Or even simply, "anyone that refuses a random search of their person/belongings"? Our government is already ignoring the Constitution, so I don't imagine it would take much longer to remove certain amendments as "outdated".

Why has Bush not been impeached yet?!

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