Guest Janet, my best friends and all my family are Americans and I'm surely not ashamed of any of 'em. You must've meant to ask if we were ashamed of the steaming piles of crap that worked their way into the US govt. lately who are toying with the idea of global nuclear war to avenge the terrorist's attacks. The only thing that Americans need to be ashamed of is that half of us didn't march on Washington and block the doors to the White House after the election, but I don't believe that it would have been logistically possible to do such a thing, so here we are. Am I sorry that slightly under half of the common people over here were fooled into voting for an oil barron's heir with no job skills? Yup!