Justin wrote: Bush won. Americans who voted for him are _______________.
...hopefully NOT going to have to reap what they sow. They've re-elected a president who managed in just two years to destroy the wealth of goodwill and sympathy towards the United States after 9/11. Anyone voting for Bush because of his record in "the war on terror" is naive beyond belief. He committed far too few resources to catching Osama, instead going after a crackpot dictator with no links to terrorism and who posed absolutely no tenable threat to the USA or any other Western country. In doing so he's been responsible for killing thousands of innocent Iraqis (as even conservative accounts of collateral damage concede) and for thousands of casualties to young American soldiers. By attacking one of the Muslim world's most holy areas without justification or international ratification he's created far greater hatred of the US than that which existed before 9/11. He's also alienated much of Europe - the very countries which stood by the US during the cold war and allowed it to become the dominant power in the world.
If none of that matters, consider the effect on your pocket - Bush has already spent well over $100Billion on the war, which could have been spent tracking and stopping the real terrorists, including catching Bin Laden. Or on health-care, education, or back in your pocket! The crisis has also put the price of fuel up, something which effects the finances of people the world over (as a Brit who drives every day I have my own personal valid reason to hate Bush).
I don't know too much about the local issues, so if you voted for Bush because you hate the idea of abortion, think gay marriage is going to destroy the universe or just because John Kerry looks like he should be a character from The Munsters, then I guess maybe what the rest of the globe thinks of Bush's world policies is irrelevant. Just be aware that he has alienated America from the rest of the world when he had the opportunity to unite it, and that by his decision to go into Iraq he's created a whole new generation of Muslims who will hate America and teach their children the same. If you don't reap what Bush has sown in another terrorist attack (and I sincerely and genuniely hope no-one has to suffer that) then unfortunately Bush has already made sure that your children may have to live in the same fear for decades to come. You could have chosen to reject what he's done by voting him out, but by re-electing him you've tarred all Americans with the same brush, to be seen by the world as ignorant warmongering fundamentalists - exactly the same as the terrorists you claim to despise so much.