It's the underlying narrative of 'We own the planet - so fuck you, and give us all your resources' that needs to change.

Bush is just the most visible mushroom head of a much deeper established moral rot among the Western elites.

There's nothing complicated about this. The US is reviled the world over because many of the people in its elites are thieves and criminals, with not infrequent Fascist leanings.

If it stopped its regular scheduled program of invasions, coups, destabilisations, torture camps, extraordinary renditions, and economic pillage, all promoted under the deeply cynical label of 'democracy', the rest of the world might suddenly become more pleasantly disposed to it.

As it is, people know exactly what they're getting. Which - unsurprisingly - is why they really, really don't like it.

Sugar coating the abuse with Mickey Mouse and CocaCola can only go so far when your loved ones have been disappeared, or buried under what's left of a building.