CNN.com - Professor: Combatant decision 'painful' for Bush - Dec. 18, 2003
"It is a painful decision for the Bush administration. It says that the president has to go to Congress to get a specific statute authorizing the detention of someone like Padilla, who the president had called an enemy combatant. And the court says, basically, Padilla was not carrying explosives or carrying a gun, carrying a physical weapon. The fact that he was a sort of forward target-spotter was not sufficient for the court, because it says the U.S. is not a zone of combat. "


This is the kind of pain that Bubba Bush needs -- the pain of democracy, of constitutionality, of freedom.