American forces were already involved in Vietnam when Lyndon Johnson drafted the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, and George Bush Sr. agreed during a two-day debate in Senate on U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf, but George W. Bush has surpassed his predecessors in achieving imperial powers — most obviously, perhaps, in his tendency to confuse the U.S. war on terror with his own existential destiny . “I will not forget this wound to our country,” he told the nation shortly after 9/11. "I will not give in; I will not rest; I will not give in in this fight for the freedom and security of the American people." In assuming this central role, Bush further made clear that he would allow no limits, even in the exercise of national power. The president made the arbitrary decision to designate as foreign “enemy combatants” Some Americans are being held incommunicado in a military cell without legal process and without charge... suspected of being linked to Al-Qaeda and possessing a dirty bomb. [2]. These people are being denied their