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what, if any, limits you believe there are or should be on the powers of a president during a war, at wartime? And if the global war on terror is going to last for decades, as has been forecast, does that mean that we're going to see, therefore, a more or less permanent expansion of the unchecked power of the executive in American society?
This is the whole issue in a nutshell. Someone asked Bush this to his face and he couldn't or wouldn't give a straight answer. This scares me. We have to keep asking this question again and again until we get some real answers.
