Many people are still too naive to imagine the true motives of our current leaders. It wasn't a Bush throwaway line that it would be nice if this were a dictatorship.
Please read on.
They want a dictatorship. It doesn't stop with the idea that we aren't supposed to criticize the leadership in a time of war (which legally it is not), they wish to create an economic crisis and exploit that chaos as well. That is the reason for the debt explosion. At a minimum, they can default on or make an adjustment to Social Security and Medicare. That will happen before the T-Bill and foreign investors are punished with default. There will be emergency adjustments to every domestic spending program on the Federal level. That is the reason for it.
Do not think that this means domestic safety or education or various other infrastructure spending will be spared. It will not. If it isn't part of a no-bid Halliburton contract, you are out of luck.
We are now suffering under the most corrupt and destructive administration in the history of the country. Thank you Florida (and JEB!), Thank you Ohio, and thank you Supreme Court traitors.
This is the first time an Executive ever usurped a Congressional authorization and launched a major war against a country innocent of any aggression toward us and incapable of defending itself. This was done to provide a profit center for reliable Republican investors and patrons and to permit the theft of oil revenues.
There is no possible atonement that can be made by America other than the removal from office of George Bush. He should be impeached and tried and removed from office. If requested, he should be made available for extradition to the International Criminal Court. He might not realize it, but he is responsible. Cheney and Rumsfeld and others are guilty of serious crimes as well, and deserve felony level punishment on a national and international level.
We have to be a nation ruled by law. Our legal edifice, which is the Constitution, describes our system of elections, of courts, of the division of power between the branches of our government and the responsibility of everyone who chooses to serve in the government. The Bill of Rights defines our basic sense of humanity.
I would say to any would-be future dictator, if you don't like the rule of law, don't serve in our government.