You make a good point Bowser:
>"What is wrong with that idea - resenting that the US used to be a bastion of Human Rights, and now has become a rogue nation, a badguy, a bully? Anyone who doesn't resent that, to my mind, doesn't love their country, they love something else."

And this may be one of them. This "pre-emptive" war, and going after "terrorists" has been an abject failure. He pushed and pushed for war, until WMD's became the rallying point. A month or two after the invasion, we were "liberating" them.

I wonder what conscious Americans are thinking these days?
No WMD. No liberation.
Just lots of dead people, hundreds of billions of American taxpayers dollars down the drain and ten, no...... a hundred times more muslim hatred towards us, islamic fundamentalists wanting us all dead now, all around the world. And now we're making deals to get the generals of the Republican Guard to control the cities??
Can anyone spell D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R?

GWB sure has his compassionate side going.
Do you think an apology is in the offing?

Arf.