I know what the anti-war/anti-Bush Left is thinking. They're thinking that this President has stolen two elections ---and is now intent upon stealing the average American's privacy on the pretext of his powers as Commander-in-Chief.
But what sort of a dictator fails to get his way? Bush often fails to get his way. He couldn't get Social Security reforms enacted. He couldn't get his personal attorney onto the Supreme Court. He could keep neither the Republican Majority Leader of the House nor his own Vice President's chief of staff from indictment. He cannot keep his critics inside or out of the government from leaking and harping and doing their worst to undermine him.
This is a dictator?
But let us imagine that all of these things are just part of the kabuki theater of national politics. All these failures are just window dressing for a far vaster operation just below the surface. It's there where we are all being duped and spied upon by an enormous apparatus of Halliburton-like super-corporations. Bush and his controllers (or are they minions?) are stealing our civil liberties in the name of national security. Bush is committing impeachable crimes under the cover of "war time measures."
The war must be made permanent to preserve Bush's extraordinary powers.
I recall that Michael Moore, who is a traitor, said that the atrocities of 11 September 2001 only affected a few thousand people. It was, in other words, not so big a deal as to require that we assume the posture of a nation at war. But making the argument that 3,000 dead is proportionately very small relative to the rest of the country is to say that those atrocities were just a pop in the face and that we are too big to let that bother us so much. Of course, this attitude is the limit of disrespect and stupidity.
The events of that day did change everything. A lot of people whose opinions I read make light of that notion, but that's their fault. If there is to be permanent war between us and Islamofascism, then I say we keep on winning it. And the evidence of that victory, despite the degeneracy of those who resist it, will continue to manifest itself in the cultural changes in the Muslim Middle East. It will be George W. Bush who claims credit for those achievements.
That is where his interests lie, not in spying on Americans.