In Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire, former Reagan aide Doug Bandow makes the conservative case against the disaster known as the Bush foreign policy. He pulls apart the Bush program rotten plank by rotten plank. After reading Foreign Follies, it is obvious why the American people repudiated the Republican Party on November 7.
Although regularly assaulted by the left, until recently President George W. Bush was handled gently by conservative critics. Even now most complaints focus on the president's extravagant spending. Virtually all conservatives have marched lock-step behind his war in Iraq.
Bandow forthrightly challenges the Bush foreign policy of promiscuous war-making. In a book featuring a foreward by Rep. John Duncan (R-Tenn.)--one of four Republican congressmen who voted against the Iraq war--Bandow points out that Iraq never posed a serious danger to America and could have been deterred, as were Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's China. Bandow also cites the uncertain aftermath of any invasion--and the likely increase in terrorism that a war would spark.

U.S.Law makes U.S. allies designated terrorists

If I had the ability to change your charter, I would make it more aligned with the Declaration of Independence, which clearly states that government is instituted in order to protect our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not say that concerns about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be considered as the government goes about its business. “Protection,” not “consideration” is what is mandated. That is what I consider the major problem we in America face today. It is a government which has forgotten what its true purpose is and that its powers, as limited as they ought to be, is only given to it by the consent of the governed.

TIDE has also created concerns about secrecy, errors and privacy. The list marks the first time foreigners and U.S. citizens are combined in an intelligence database. The bar for inclusion is low, and once someone is on the list, it is virtually impossible to get off it. At any stage, the process can lead to "horror stories" of mixed-up names and unconfirmed information, Travers acknowledged.

The first point in the American Freedom Agenda’s 10-point legislative program to restore the Constitution’s checks and balances and protections against government abuses would prohibit the President from establishing military commissions for the trial of alleged war crimes except on the battlefield when necessary to preserve fresh evidence or to prevent local anarchy.

The Bush administration made more than 200 revisions to the first report of a civilian board that oversees government protection of personal privacy, including the deletion of a passage on anti-terrorism programs that intelligence officials deemed "potentially problematic" intrusions on civil liberties, according to a draft of the report obtained by The Washington Post.

 One of the panel's five members, Democrat Lanny J. Davis, resigned in protest Monday over deletions ordered by White House lawyers and aides. The changes came after the congressionally created Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board had unanimously approved the final draft of its first report to lawmakers, renewing an internal debate over the board's independence and investigative power.