Someone needs to tell Bush about ... checks and balances

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It is time that George W. Bush had a civics education. Someone needs to teach him the sagacity of the system of checks and balances put in place 200 years before his swagger was born.
Maybe it is because our president has never been a curious and engaged student of history or of the world, or maybe he has drawn all the wrong lessons from that Bible he clings to, but somewhere along the way Bush decided that his leadership would be marked by a blind righteousness that has led to a rejection of the rule of law.
Any means, in Bush's view, is justified to promote his cause, even if that means sidestepping the strictures of the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions. The result has been tragically predictable. The atrocities at the Abu Ghraib prison are not the aberrations of a few rogue GIs but the logical extension of a Bush hubris whereby normal rules may be dispensed with when they get in the way.
The pictures of sexually humiliated prisoners are shocking, indeed. But what has sparked Bush to action, including a direct appeal to the Arab media, is the pictures themselves. Had there just been eyewitness accounts, they would have been dismissed as unreliable, as were similar accounts from detainees in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05142004/commenta/commenta.asp

sorry, it is far, FAR too late for that.

could absorb a civics lesson if he tried.

it basically said Bush knew less than a bunch of school kids.