It's comforting to hear you speak of him in the past tense, but he's still in office doing damage. Now he wants to move into Iran, and anyone who opposes this idiotic move (in the military) is reassigned. He's eroding our civil rights and the conservative stacking of our supreme court (who interprets the law) will continue to undermine people's rights in favor of corporations for decades. You might not be able to hear much from us Americans after a while, because if his people succeed in gaining control of our internet (something they've been steadily working on for years), we won't even be able to let you know how bad it is over here.
The trouble is, you can't blame Bush by himself. Our Congress, instead of holding him accountable for violating the Constitution (of which he has several impeachable offenses) continually gives him a pass. We kicked out the Republican-led Congress and put in a Democratic one to show our displeasure with this administration, and what do we get? More of the same. It's an incredibly disturbing situation. Anyone who is familiar with the delicate balance that our Founding Fathers set up for this nation is horrified at how that balance has shifted to put power in the hands of a few people, which was never their intention, and something they actively planned to prevent. But to stop it, you have to have Congress exercise its function-- and it hasn't been, for years.
Upset as most American people are about our current leadership, they simply don't have the time or education to be protesting these changes as they should. They know that something is wrong, but just how wrong hasn't hit home to most people yet. Our political leaders have become very clever at spin. They keep things out of the papers (they honestly do pass legislation at 11:30 on a Friday night, to keep people from knowing about it until it's a done deal-- like the so-called Patriot Act) and feed people a series of distractions to keep them from inquiring too closely. For a populace who is working increasingly long hours just to keep food on the table or afford any kind of medical care, independent inquiry is too much of a burden. And so it goes...