We can do something about it. Bush, Blair and Howard will be up for re-election sooner or later. Give them a taste of "regime change" - kick them out. GWB is not going to fix the US economy in time for the 2004 elections. You can only fool some of the peasants some of the time. Sooner or later they do awake.
And I think Costello deserves a shot at the job just in recognition of his patience for waiting for Howard's 64th birthday !!
An interesting section of an article I was reading on the net that illustrates how history repeats itself. Sounds awfully like GWB :
"While the US has sought to portray this campaign as a war of liberation, so have others in the past. When British forces marched into Baghdad 86 years ago, their commanding general assured the people of Iraq, "Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators." Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude proclaimed, "O people of Baghdad, remember that for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have endeavored to set one Arab house against another in order that they might profit by your dissensions." Three years later, Iraqis were in open revolt against British rule. This led an exasperated Winston Churchill - the architect of Britain's Iraq policy - to say that the crown was spending millions for the privilege of sitting atop a volcano. Similarly, the new Gulf War will be seen as a colonial war of the 19th-century genre. Historians may well call it "a war to end all peace", an appellation they have used to capture the strategic myopia of World War I ".
