The point is that you (Bruce) CAN do something about abuses perpetrated by the USA, and you can't do anything much about injustice in Burma, Zimbabwe, Sudan etc. But you seem to be saying something on the lines of we can't be that bad because there are other bad buggers in the world. Why are you so fixated on exonerating Bush?

The USA (and UK) had a go at (let's be generous to them) relieving injustice by military force. It has proved an unmitigated disaster. If we want to do something about Zimbabwe, and we do, we know that the one thing we mustn't do is send a gunboat (or helicopter gunship these days). We've got to work out a way round it. And our motives must be patently clear of imperial and economic ambitions- and it is that oil- black contamination that has discredited both the USA and the UK for a generation to come.