It's Bush who has taken us back into the Dark Ages, specifically to a time
before Runnymede and the Magna Carta. 900 years was a pretty good run for
the right of Habeus Corpus, the foundation of liberty, but now it's
quaint--like the Geneva Conventions.

I'm working toward a day I can show my daughter the America I once
knew--y'know the one with a Constitution, a Bill of Rights. Those "just a
god damned piece of paper" things as George put it.

Bush. The small man who thinks he's fighting a war and is too damnably
stupid to realize he lost the war when he started taking the rights of
citizens. He lost to his own fears. He has taken from us what no foreign
invader ever could. Damn him.

Sorry for this OT post.

October 30, 2006
The Dark Ages
Live from the Middle East
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services

The most frightening aspect of the present war is how
easily our
pre-modern enemies from the Middle East have brought
a stunned
postmodern world back into the Dark Ages.