...if you put a frog into cool water, and raise the temperature slooowly.....

I am VERY worried about dozens of variables in this new equation. I don't doubt for a minute that GW wants to 'protect' us and stop terrorism....but neither do I doubt that he see it as an opportunity to add powers under that umbrella that he would have NEVER gotten in normal times..and we shall see how those powers are used in the next few years, hmmmm?

(Defining what has happened, loosely, as 'war' gives him much leverage, whether it is 'really' war or not!)