[mburbank]

While I do not support that act, it was presented as being for the duration of a speciffic war that one could define the end of.

The 'War n Terror' is a conceit less defined than even the cold war. There is no way of even describing a realistic 'end' to it. W is proposing vast extensions of Presidential power and neither he nor anyone else seems to be willing to arguwe over the fact that they are intended to be permanent.