Bush/Cheney - Regime change imminent

Let's take a deep breathe and hope the polls are right and that come tomorrow, Barack Obama and the Democrats have swept the Republicans (along with Bush/Cheney Regime) out of power.

After the fiasco and incompetence of the last 8 years, the world deserves so much better. How a so called “sophisticated” nation such as the USA could have voted for this regime twice, beggars belief.

My only reservation is that hopefully Obama and the Democrats live up to the message of change and a "government of common sense over ideology”. Many times politicians promise so much and then deliver so little after being elected. But at this stage anything would be better than the mess of the last 8 years.

Perhaps it is ironic that the Bush regime may actually prove good for the USA in the long run, as a “wake up” call to Americans on how bad things can get, when one supports ideological regimes – and hopefully never to be repeated. I was in the USA for some of the time in 2001/2002 and it was incredible how so many Americans hysterically backed the government then. And cheered on the war in Iraq, as though they were watching a football match – who can forget the Jessica Lynch fiasco. I wonder how many citizens would admit to such support now.

But what is infuriating about the likes of Bush, Cheney, Rumsveld and Wolfowitz etc, the architects of the mess that has engulfed the US policy over the last 8 years, is that they can now retire in relative comfort, without having to answer for the chaos, death and destruction they have inflicted on so many citizens of the world. And their legacy, that is going to take so much to put right.