I too have traveled through Europe and I witnessed what the US media has spread throughout the world. Listen to CNN in Europe and you'll hear constant denigration of Bush and anything the administration or the US does. We have media people (movie stars) that beat up the US on foreign soil. Sharon Stone just did that in the middle east. Michael Moore that great sage of the left has said the people in the US are stupid, that's us folks. Bush was called names and made to look stupid by the media before he was even inaugurated. There is no president in the history of this country that could have maintained a decent image internationally with the rotten campaign to destroy him and his presidency that was and continues to be carried out by the media. The media will go to any length to destroy the man even at great cost to the country. Media with an agenda can be a dangerous thing.