What are we mending?

To be frank, I can't help but find President Bush's fence-mending trip to Europe distasteful. It hints of begging for forgiveness for the Iraq War, which Americans obviously aren't sorry about because we reelected George W. Bush, and were clearly right about after the wildly successful elections in Iraq on January 30.

Such "fence-mending" is an insult to those of us who embrace the President's remarkable second inaugural address which clearly definined the role of American foriegn policy as the removal of tyranny in the world. Therefore, when Europe and Russia wish to negotiate and trust an Iranian regime who can give a blogger a 14-year sentence for insulting the government by calling a spade a spade, those are at best fairweather friends and at worst enemies of our efforts to spread freedom and democracy to the globe.