by James Glaser
June 16, 2004

It took a mad man by the name of Adolph Hitler to get the whole world into the last World War and today we have a mad man right here at home that might have started the next one.

George Bush has warned the American people that the so called War on Terrorism could last for decades. Remember we claim that we won World War II even though we had over 400.000 of our troops killed and over 650.000 of them wounded.

We might have had fewer casualties than Germany or Japan, but with the loss of over 400.000 men and women, it is hard to claim victory. We did defeat our enemy, but did we "win" with losses like that?

Right now, George Bush, like Adolph Hitler, is trying to take more control over our lives and freedom every day. No President has ever decided that he could throw American citizens into prison without a trial or even a charge, but George Bush has done just that.

George Bush has decided that American homes can now be secretly searched with warrants from Secret Courts and those Americans affected don't even have to be notified of that search.

Hospital records, business records, even library records are now open to the federal government with their new power of secret searches.

George Bush claims that the terrorists hate our freedom and at the same time he is taking our freedom away from us. I guess that would make George a terrorist too.

When George Bush was asked if torture is ever justified, Bush replied, "Look, I'm going to say it one more time....the instructions went out to our people to adhere to law. That ought to comfort you."

It might comfort me if I thought this President was honest or I knew what law he was talking about. Craig Gordon, of Newsday, writes, "Memos Spark Concerns That Bush Trying to Skirt Torture Laws."

Gordon goes on with, "Justice Department and Pentagon lawyers had crafted detailed arguments for getting around world anti-torture treaties and stated that President George W. Bush legally could authorize torture against some detainees." So now George tells us that he has ordered our troops to follow the law, as we learn that his people are telling him he can make up new laws for them to follow.

Is President Bush being dishonest again? Is this another statement like Iraq is buying uranium from Africa? Or the one about Mushroom shaped clouds over American cities if we don't attack Iraq? How about his speech about the proof of Iraq's WMD program when we found the weather balloon trailers? How about the talk of the Hussein- bin Laden connection that was later disowned by Bush, but is still given by Dick Cheney, even this last week.

George Bush plays word games with us so that he can sound honest. Remember he didn't say that he thought torture was wrong or that we would not torture people, he said, "the instructions went out to our people to adhere to law." They probably did, but what law is he talking about. We know that his people have told him, he can make up new laws in time of war. Yes, that is scary!

Here is the problem, George Bush and his administration now say, "A US President at war is no longer bound by those torture conventions, or even bound by federal law, the legal memos contend." I think with a nut case like Bush reaching for every bit of power he can get, it will not be long before our own government starts torturing American citizens. In fact they already do. By placing American citizens in solitary confinement for years with no right to see a lawyer or even a Judge, I would have to call that torture.

Right now George Bush is trying his hardest to keep the PATRIOT ACT in law as the Congress passed it with a "sunset clause." Over three hundred cities, counties, and States have passed resolutions against part or all of this law, which assaults our Bill of Rights.

Nate Hentoff, in the Village Voice, wrote that "To just trust federal prosecutors—with a blind eye to the Constitution—frightens me." He goes on with, "As I've reported in this column, a growing number of members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats are insistently filing bills to roll back particularly dangerous sections of the Patriot Act and subsequent attempts by the administration to further bypass the Constitution."

George is going to cost us thousands of American lives. Our best friends in this world are no longer willing to help us as long as Bush is President. Our closest neighbors, Mexico and Canada have both washed their hands of Bush's War in Iraq.

George Bush, President of the United States repeatedly lies to the American people. His administration has now been caught "fixing" the report on terrorism in 2003, to make their policies look like they are working. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, had to get on the Sunday morning news programs and tell the nation that this report was false.

Other nations have decided that the United States under George Bush cannot be trusted. America, the land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is now torturing people that we detain. The Red Cross has report that 70 to 90 percent of the people detained in Iraq had no charges against them.

George Bush is creating a whole new group of terrorists the world over and he is giving them the pictures and videos needed for recruitment. Everything Osama bin laden has said about America is coming to pass under George Bush.

Let us face it, we have an insanely religious fanatic as President and he thinks that he can decide for the American people, that our nation can now do truly evil things to protect our freedom. Yes, with George in charge, we are going to lose this one, he has already cost us our good name and reputation.