Last Monday, the U.S. military in Iraq bombed the wrong house: CNN.com - U.S. says bomb hit wrong house in Iraq - Jan 5, 2006

Okay, that's it. I'm in favor of a constitutional amendment to limit the executive's powers. More on that later, as well as my ideas for other constitutional amendments such as taking away corporate personhood (where thanks to supreme court precedence, corporations are legally people with almost the name rights as natural persons.

Also, Bush decided that he could waive McCain's new anti-terrorism law (article).

"But, the official said, a situation could arise in which Bush may have to waive the law's restrictions to carry out his responsibilities to protect national security. He cited as an example a ''ticking time bomb" scenario, in which a detainee is believed to have information that could prevent a planned terrorist attack."

What do you think of this argument? I think it is ridiculous because I believe with all the other powers available to the government for search and seizure for cause, any information that would be gained through torture should be already available through other search means. And even if it is not, putting aside any moral issues with torture, then as is almost universally acknowledged, torture is unlikely to produce correct or usable information anyway.

As McCain says: when you're being tortured, you'll say anything you think your torturers will want to hear to make the pain stop.