Nothing new. He's not half as bad as most despots in history. Truth is, if the majority of people hated him so much they felt they had nothing to lose by overthrowiung him, he'd be dead by now. Simple fact of numbers- a good chunk of the population, fighting street warfare with whatever armanent they have handy on turf THEY understand implicitly, against any army, factoring in the number of military defections that result from attacking the civilian populace, amounts of captured weaponry, etc., etc.- He'd have a year of rebellion, then he'd be lynched in the streets. Simple as that, and there's really no denying it, since it has never failed. However, that ain't gonna happen. I'd wager one of the main reasons why is the unifying power that a constant state of siege by the U.S. has- it has a tendency to make the government more popular than ever. Look at what happened over even the little panic after September 11- now imagine the few days after that, when the mass's attention span was still on "we're under attack! Yaah! They hate us because we're good! USA! USA!" perpetuated every day, for years on end. Essentially, we're the ones who put him in power, we're the ones that kept him in power, we're the ones who've made him more beloved than ever.
