As I said, saying that Putin is no worse than Bush is not saying much - it just goes to show how we have all fallen.

Hell, we have supermenteur as president ourselves ("superliar" is one of Chirac's nicknames in France), a man who should be in jail and has done nothing of his more than 10 years in power except act as the Secretary of Agriculture he was in the 60s.

Blair, Berlusconi, Barroso, Bah!

What's wrong with all of us that we all get such terrible leaders? Do we really deserve them, collectively?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes