This article like its writer is garbage.

Not quite Jonathan J Ariel ...

It was George W Bush who failed his allies, disappointed his friends, emboldened America’s Islamic enemies and diminished the US’s standing.

Obama is just expected to repair the damage left to him by his predecessor.

It's no use blaming it on Bush any more. He's not the commander-in-chief of the forces that are still killing people in Iraq. Obama pledged to withdraw them in 2007. We now know that all the reasons given for going to war with Iraq were lies. What's he still doing there? Don't tell me, let me guess.... weapons of mass destruction? How many Iraqis have been killed since Obama came to power?

Obama is a war criminal and belongs with Bush on the gallows.

Nonsense

Watch out Jonathan, your in for a good yelling at. I got yelled at for saying the same sort of thing before he was elected.

Never trust an orator to do anything, they are always too busy thinking of the effect of their next word rather than action.

A proper look at history shows that the only reason Churchill did not loose WW11 for the UK is that he was up against another orator.

At least the Romans knew what to do with an orator, when Cesar got too big for his boots.

Good article, thanks.

President Bush bashers are like PM Howard haters, always with us, just a whining drone to underline why their own heros aren't up to the task.

President Bush and PM Howard may not have been right in all they did, but PM Rudd and President Obama cannot be excused because of them.

More than substance, the current leaders of Australia and USA are the greatest spin artists of all time.

That will be their one liner in the history books, as the Americans say "big hat, no cattle".