What do you think Dave, should we liberate them, then?
In fairness to the Americans, your friend must have had a chip on his shoulder.
I don't like that Bush got elected. 48+% of Americans don't like it either. But elected he was - and they (and we) have to live with this and work with this fact.

What would really worry me is if Bush doesn't make it to the end of the term. I worry that those who used him as a puppet-front will have little use for him in the future, and they will contrive a way to edge himm out, for Cheney to take over - whether for reasons of health, or using even more sinister methods.

But - whatever. The citizens of the USA have voted, in great numbers indeed, and they have chosen. May I be wrong and may they have chosen right. But I would never say that they are not fit to govern themselves. I would never say that of any nation.

Not even Iraq.