It's the self-righteous thrill of pointing out the flaws of the US. You don't get that by actually doing something useful.
Pointing out the flaws of the US is in fact quite useful: it offers the US the chance to improve itself. The only problem is that the US is too self-righteous to actually listen to what the rest of the world thinks.
Or do you see many signs of gratitude in French public opinion? Any? The Americans who get spat on in France nowadays - how many of those Frenchmen remember Omaha Beach.
I'm sure the French were quite grateful for being liberated by (among other countries) the US. However, you seem to believe that because the US took part in the liberation of France over fifty years ago, the French should forever accept and support everything the US does. That's ridiculous.
Take a look at the people in the protests - the people on your side of the debate (not mine, thank God) - and you'll notice that a lot of them _do_ think that the US is 'worse than Saddam'.
I have heard very few people on my and Debbi's side of the debate argue that the US is "worse than Saddam". They criticise the US for its behaviour (and rightly so), but I really haven't heard much "the US is worse than Saddam".
You might want to worry about who you're associating with a bit.
The same applies to you. You are associating with an US president who is extremely eager to go to war, who shows utter disrespect for the opinion of the international community, and who in his own country is rapidly eroding civil rights, thereby moving the country towards becoming a police state.
Jeroen "Make love, not war" van Baardwijk
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