Something Bush and I agree on

[mburbank]

"I don't think you can win it."

That's what he said about the war on terror. And I totally agree, since terror is a technique and not a state or single defined group.

That's my problem with W and the whole idea that our relationship with terror is a war.

W has made the argument that a president needs and deserves extraordinary, even extraconstitutional powers during war time and then announced we are in a war that can't be won.

No unless he's suggesting we surrender, that means we are at war from now on. He's defined our country as permanently at war, and our commander in chief as being deserving of permanent war time powers. That's the welcome matt at the door of fascism, and it's very reason he's called this a war from the go.