More With Us Or Against Us BS

What country is this? I've always had some odd view that there was supposed to be a system of checks and balances in our government - not some Baathist regime where dessenters are tourtured and/or killed. Yet, it seems that Bush is at it again with getting rid of everyone who doesn't agree with him.

"The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter J. Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.

'The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House,' said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. 'Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda.' "

So much for diverse opinions in a democracy!