President Bush - Threat to Democracy

It has become increasingly clear that the Bush administration is a threat to democracy. From warrantless wiretaps to claims that some forms of torture are legal, from secret prisons and imprisonments without trial, from using only supportive data to start a war to refusing to release important information to a public, this presidency has constantly undermined American democracy. This has been helped by a Republican Congress that has willingly surrendered power to a strong executive, an executive that is perhaps the strongest in the democractic world. And I would like to agree with David Ignatius when he writes about an "arrogance of power", and this power corrupts! From strong executive power to dictatorship is only a small distance.

If the terrorists' goal has been to destroy American democracy, they have succeeded, despite all the claims to the contrary after September 11.