So now torture is okay?

(Click title to link to NY Times article)

President Bush vetoed a bill which would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding as an interrogation technique. His entire Presidency has been devoted to increasing the powers of the executive branch, and this is just one more step. If we elect another Republican to the presidency, in a few years this will not be a representative republic but an empire, with the president as emperor.
If for no other reason this is why we must put a Democrat in the White House.