KYOTO -- U.S. President George W. Bush doesn't get many warm welcomes when he leaves the White House these days.
With the war in Iraq going badly, national anger remaining over the response to Hurricane Katrina, the vice president's top aide under criminal indictment and members of Congress even from his own party challenging him on issues from Iraq to torture, Bush faces more and more opposition in Washington and the country at large.
Abroad, he can barely go anywhere without facing massive demonstrations. A recent trip to Argentina was labeled a disaster by the U.S. media, with nearly 40,000 demonstrators as well as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leaders dismissive of his free-trade proposal, and former soccer star Diego Maradona calling the president "human rubbish.'