What are we fighting for?

The Republican talking point seems to be that Bush, as Commander in Chief, is free to fight the War on Terror any way he sees fit.

But what are we fighting for?

Is it solely to save Americans from another attack? Is that all? Are we willing to kill the patient (America) to cure the disease (Al Qaida)?

"The troops here and across the world are fighting a global war on terror. The war reached our shores on September the 11th, 2001. The terrorists who attacked us -- and the terrorists we face -- murder in the name of a totalitarian ideology that hates freedom, rejects tolerance, and despises all dissent. Their aim is to remake the Middle East in their own grim image of tyranny and oppression -- by toppling governments, by driving us out of the region, and by exporting terror."
- Bush in a recent National Address http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050628-7.html

Bush, given his blatant disregard for our form of government and our Bill of Rights... is guilty of the very thing he says the terrorists are guilty of. The attack against the Free Press is only one of the most recent demonstrations of that fact.