Surveillance

This morning before school I was watching Zack Snyder's Watchmen. The tag line of the movie reads, "Who will watch The Watchmen?" Not directly comparing the Bush Adminstration to superheroes of alternate universe, but who watches the President? Movies such as, All The Kings Men, Frost/Nixon, and All The Presidents Men ask this same question? Who keeps a President in check during a time of war. Constitutionally the Commander-in-Cheif has unlimited power during a time of war. Referring to the Watchmen is it plausible to think that our own government would attack us or allow someone to attack us to perpetuate a power they have never legally had such as wiretapping? If one President had done it before why wouldn't another President do it? Through out Bush's eight years in office five of them we were at war and three of them he was on vacation like Dr. Manhattan of The Watchmen. Dr. Manhattan was on vacation because he was trying to figure out why he should fight for a humanity he was no longer part of. Who knows why George Bush would want to be elected President and then go on vacation? Like The Watchmen nobody watched him or kept him in line. He only answered to himself and no one else.