you don't honestly belive there is even a slight chance that the US will atatck China, do you? The momentum for that is long gone. America, needs at least 10 years to recover from the Iraq war (once it finally ends) and in 20 years time, China will have a higher GDP than America. China already are the 2nd larger spender on war technologies and research, judging by public figures. Who knows what they are doing under the table. To defaet China, one would need the whole world to ally and this will only happen if China gives a good reason for that to happen. And as a person who hast analyzed Chinese development for quite some time, I can tell you Chinese government is simply too smart to do something stupid.

Coming back to Bush, I think it's all been overly exaggerated but I know that such an attitude is not neccesarily welcomed on this forum so I won't even get into that. Although W. wasn't the best of America's presidents, there certainly were worse ones, still the country managed to recover. What it takes is just a good next president. RG, hopefully!