The anti-Bush protests were disrespectful and insulting whatever peoples views were on the war with Iraq, they should have shown some decency. It was disrespectful to Americans living here and to Americans in their own country who when they watch the evening news saw crowds of angry protesters slandering their president. It made the British look in the eyes of the world to be nothing more than thugs and hooligans with no manners or no idea of how to behave properly. The Bush protests have done far more harm than good. They made many people ashamed to be British. Thankfuly many people wrote president Bush letters of support and apolagised for their fellow citizens appalling behaivour.

Disrepect is exactly what was called for, to our unelected "president". I'm an American living in England, and was really pleased to see such a huge turnout to the anti-Bush march here.

In fact it was such a good idea that I eventually decided to march myself. There was a pretty big American contingent waiting when I arrived, organised by "Expats Against Bush", who donated placards:
 http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/995719.asp?0cv=CB30

This man deserves your anger and scorn, not your respect.

- He was voted against by a slim majority of the electorate on a low turnout, but got appointed by the Supreme Court on a divided vote, with the dissenting Justices sharply criticising the semi-legal maneuver employed.

- He almost single-handedly squandered the huge wave of sympathy we got from the world post-9/11, by hijacking the fight on terrorism to justify attacking a country that had nothing to do with 9/11: Iraq.

- He was repeatedly warned by his foreign policy experts that invading Iraq would increase the threat of terrorism, but chose to ignore this. These experts have been proven correct.

- He lied about the threat from Saddam, and pressed his subordinates into doing likewise.

- He refuses to ratify WMD treaties, like the Bioweapons Treaty and the Landmine Treaty, presumably on the grounds that we can be trusted with WMD but other countries cannot.

- He tore up the Kyoto Protocol, signed by the (elected) president that preceded him. This very modest climate treaty, really only useful as a first step to real change, was too expensive for his oil sponsors, so he simply weaseled out of it. This proves that for all his talk about the current war being about "stopping Saddam from undermining the authority of the UN and the will of the international community", Bush is happy to put two fingers up to the whole world if it'll make a buck for his corporate pals.

Etcetera. I don't really need to list here all the reasons that he's so deeply loathed by so many people at home and around the world, as these are well-documented enough. And the flood of positive comments and praise here from readers in the US also demonstrates that we recognise it's not "disrespectful to Americans" to be against giving a warm welcome and full state honors to a lying, deceiving, treaty-ripping warmonger like Bush, who is doing your country so much harm.

The recent terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda would still have happened even if Britain and America had not gone to war with Afghanistan or Iraq. The attack on America on September 11th 2001 for exasmple was completely unprovoked. You also cannot appease terrorists you have to hunt them down and defeat them.

Also who says Bush lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the majority of Americans and British believe that Iraq did have those weapons and would use them or give them to terrorist groups to use. The majority of people also believe the decision to go to war with Iraq was the right one.

We're all ashamed that you're British too.