I have to say that the deafening silence doesn't surprise me. I have come to the conclusion that we can't really blame many Americans for what they say about things when we realise that they actually don't know anything about so much that is happening outside their own country. Or even inside it. ('They' not 'you' because you do read outside information - time was it was 'inside information' that told you the most...!)

At least in the UK a lot of the media does not appear to just slavishly follow the government line - but GWB's administration seem to have found the perfect way of getting their propaganda to work - tell everyone that to disagree is unpatriotic, unAmerican, nay even traitorous, and then any independant reporter who does say anything is shot down by all the others for being unpatriotic. It is absolute genius - it is also the sort of thing that they invade other people's countries over.....