"100 Years To Recover From Bush

"Madrid - It will take the United States a century to recover from the damage wreaked by President George W. Bush, US writer Gore Vidal said in an interview published on Saturday.

"'The president behaved like a virtual criminal but we didn't have the courage to sack him for fear of violating the American constitution,' Vidal told the El Mundo newspaper.

"The author, a trenchant critic of the US-led invasion of Iraq, said it would take the United States '100 years to repair the damage' caused by Bush.

"'We live in a dictatorship. We have a fascist government ...which controls the media,' he said.

"Vidal also said presidential aspirant Barack Obama was 'intelligent,' adding that it would be a 'novelty' to have an 'intelligent' person in the White House."