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This week's Economist has a cover on Bush and they give him I think entirely too much credit.

This is the letter to the editor that I wrote:

SIR - On Inauguration Day Mr. Bush swore an oath before God and his nation. He did not pledge to protect the American people from harm, but to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States".

The concept of "illegal enemy combatants", in which by the stroke of a pen an American citizen or a foreign national can be made a non-person, beyond the protections of national and international law, is a gross violation of this sacred oath.

If only for this policy, Mr. Bush and his administration deserve to fall.

That's the end of the letter. For more information on the Inauguration (more of an unauguration which did not augur well for the future of America) you can see

BBC News: Guide to the Inauguration Ceremony
PBS NewsHour - Inauguration 2001:The Beginning Of A New Presidency

The video quality is kinda crummy, but nevertheless, you can watch Mr. Bush, with his hand on a Bible, swear the oath, including the "so help me God" part at the end added by George Washington.

George W Bush takes the oath of office [2001] (RealVideo)

Here's some of my previous rantage on this topic:
2004-06-30
2004-06-09
2003-02-25 posted by Richard at 19:27 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)