John Birch Society on President Bush
"Using the pretext of responding to terrorist threats, President Bush proposed changes that, in reality, have long been planned to consolidate police-state powers at the federal level."
And plenty more paranoia where this came from. It is not only Putin that is responding to terrorism with an attempt to takeover, but Bush as well.
That should settle this issue for most freepers.
There is no place here on FR for this kind of distorted and irrational thinking.
Like I said, I'm not a Bircher, so I count vouch for every single thing they put out. But when it comes to Putin: Ally or Terrorist, I have thoroghly researched the Golitsyn angle, and can therefore vouch for what Golitsyn has to say on the subject.