Runner, the evidence of George jnr's lack of compassion is not lacking:
GWB has met with very very few war widows and been to i think zero funerals of US soldiers killed in Iraq, breaking an important tradition - cowardice unsurprising from a draft dodger.
GWB ordered an invasion that keeps no count at all of 'collateral damage' (the 650,000+ Iraqi's killed by our stupidity).
GWB, when governor of Texas, publicly mimicked and mocked a woman who pleaded before mercy before being executed in prison.
GWB often uses schoolboy humour ("wheres Osama? Under here?") to avoid considering serious questions seriously.

All no surprise in a family where Ma & Pa played golf the day after GWBs baby sister died, but lets not pretend the sociopath is an empath.

p.s. am not antiamerican, am anti the US Offence Dept's policy of Full Spectrum Dominance and the 'Washington Consensus', both of which are creations of a fairly small clique of neoliberal politicians and their uber-rich sponsors. You could hang all the neocons on one day, no problem, and beautiful America would be all the better for it.

I am also tending to think that the resources spent in Iraq could have been better spent elsewhere.

I don’t share GWB’s fundamentalist belief in democracy.
And despite what all the NGOs/UNO/GWB’s have been telling us, it is not necessary to drag every corner of humanity along with us .

However, having said that, I do feel much of what masquerades a high minded concern about Iraq is merely the latest incarnation of the hate the west crusade

When most of the actions causing civilian casualties in Iraq at the moment are from Iraq on Iraqi action, (and designed to maximise western media attention) blaming it all on the US seems akin to blaming police for the actions of a crazy who holds a knife to his childrens throats & threatens to kill them if they don’t withdraw

Equally, it undercuts internal/western critics claims to a high PRINICIPLED stance when such critics are consistently deaf, blind & dumb to hundreds of other troubled spots through-out the world .And undercuts external critics ( i.e. those from Arabs countries) when they live amidst & tolerate or even encourage greater injustices.

So, what is preferable: cheating own folk as British Chamberlain did in the time when an ousted English king of Australia Nazi friends were conspiring bombing Britain already or PREVENTING enemy acting within as Bush does?

GOD BLESS AMERICA for both annihilating a rule inherited and all very efforts she does Australia as a Western world country to be existing

Michalk seems to talk about Bush "PREVENTING enemy acting"

Bush's Iraq policy has (and is) enabling, encouraging and expanding the "enemy". He has given the "enemy" tactical and strategic success.

The terrorism initiated by Osama bin Laden has already claimed 6,000 American and British lives, and torn apart many of our freedoms. And yet bin Laden escapes justice and dropped off the Bush agenda.

Yes, so far "yet bin Laden escapes justice", but it is surely NO fact he “dropped off the Bush agenda”.

And it is funny to read as understood from a message, of Bush’s paranoia of self-creating the enemies within from David Latimer as Australia recently introduces a naturalization test based on the most hard part of a language proficiency which is a verbal use of language.

That request is factually substantiating a very notion of being law obedient responsible citizens on merits of belonging to a particular language group only.