If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

Can anyone tell me what good Bush's trip to Europe last week did?

Will the United States sign the Kyoto Accord? No.
Will the United States join the International Criminal Court? No.
Will the United States agree to accept whatever deal the Anglo-Franco-German negotiators cook up with Iran? No
Did any Europeans announce they would send more troops to Iraq? - No
Were any new treaties signed? - No
Were any new diplomatic initiatives brought to the table? - No
Do the Europeans feel better about the US government? - No

Did he accomplish anything?

So what did he do? He played cheerleader for the neocon agenda of global hegemony for the US. He lectured European leaders on "Freedom" and "Democracy" as if his administration has been 'walking the talk' at home - it hasn't.

As one op-ed columnist said his morning, "... the only checks Mr. Bush seems to believe in are those written to the "journalists"... The only balance W. likes is the slavering, Pravda-like "Fair and Balanced" coverage Fox News provides... Mr. Bush is on shaky ground if he wants to hold up his administration as a paragon of safeguarding liberty - considering it has trampled civil liberties in the name of the war on terror and outsourced the torture of prisoners to bastions of democracy like Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt... The president loves democracy - as long as democracy means he's always right."