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How Bush Murdered the Good Ole US of A

The basic premis being that degree courses in American Studies are being shut down in Universities up and down the country.

Quite apart from being a very good piece (look it up on their website if you can) it pointed out a gaping inconsistancy with one of Bush's re-election pledges.

He pledges to withdraw 70,000 NATO troops from Europe. Which in turn will mean a need for the EU to strengthen their own cooprative defences.

The inconsistancy comes with Bush's military stratagy being "We will ensure that no country becomes as militarily or economically powerful as the USA."

Kind of makes you wonder just how far our "Special Relationship" will stretch, really.

It expands to point out a worrying trend in society in the Bush era.

"The Bushites in their daily foul-mouthed e-mail assults on Guardian writers try to protray anti-American sentiment as racist, akin to anti-semitic. They try to pretend 'old' Europe is just effetely snobish about the Ugly Americans. They dismiss anti-Bush disgust in developing countries as envy and as ignorant support of terror."

That is a very astute assessment of a lot of the Pro-Bush literature I have been reading. As though the rest of the world are illiterate slobs with nothing better to do than critisise their supposedly wonderful saviour. George *Insert Sense of Reality Here* Bush.

a recent Mori report said that 81% of the British public say "I like Americans as people"

and only 19% said they admire American society.

"The Bushites are justified in sneering "we pulled your sorry asses out of two world wars" (my backside they did! ~Hexa) and it's just as well Fox News hasn't covered celebrations in Paris this week that pretend France liberated itself, with never a mention of Europes American saviours."

Funny how the only country in the world who belives America ended WWII is America, isn't it?

"The fall of the Berlin Wall was a great opportunity missed for America the victor to become the global force for good it thinks it is. The fall of the twin towers was a chance to reclaim that lost global respect, but in every action Bush has swelled the ranks of those who cheered in the streets when it happened.

"ICM's poll reveals a world that thinks America arrogant, less cultured, a worse place to live than their own countries and a threat to world peace."

Now I love American's. Most of them I know are smart, cultured, politically aware, highly ashamed of their President but just generally getting on with their lives.

The sad thing is, I don't think the fact that Bush has smashed their international reputation to pieces in four short years has actually been addressed. They don't seem to know.

They also don't seem to realise that a vast majority of the world would shed nary a tear should they fall. Should their defences be broken and their society torn in twain a lot of the world who wept for the Twin Towers will shrug and say "they had it coming."

It took 100 years to build the reputation of a parental super power, admired by much of the world.

And only 4 to make it as though it had never existed.

Such a shame, they will say in decades to come, the US had such potential.