Political Risk Assessment in American politics today:  Can anyone
survive criticizing the Bush Administration?

Is there any proof otherwise? Has Michael Moore disappeared recently?
Was Sean Penn murdered by secret government agents?

As a non-American (who is BTW very critical of the current
administration), I find this whole attitude very sad. I wouldn't say
that the current administration or the American democracy in general
are perfect. However, isn't this type of criticism going a bit too
far? Bush might be the wrong leader (this is for the voters to
decide), but he is hardly Castro, Pinochet, or Kim Jung Il (to mention
but a few). Just for proportions: Bush might have waged a war on Iraq,
and this decision could be criticised, but the person he had ousted is
responsible for a Genocide.