I realize the US is hated by the rest of the world, I think the reasons for this are frickin childish...

Brett,

in spite of all its policy of which I have wrote enough here, I cannot hate US, for it consists of Jim and Bitt and Jeff and Tony and another Tony and Doug and you and other hundreds of people here, and hundreds of other people I met in some way, and a coupe of hundreds of milions others I did not but wish I did. But I am perfectly capable of hating, or despising, or being mad at, Bush and his puppeteers, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Ashcroft, all 'think tanks' that give them illusion of credibility, all Enrons and their Kays, peddlers of Total Information Awareness and DMCA and all their ilk, and I think you should too, more than I do.