From the BBC So apparently Bush can export his notion of democracy to places other than Iraq. Like to Italy, where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi just got passed a law exempting him from prosecution. Sound familiar?
The bill would freeze some long-running trials for a year, including one involving Mr Berlusconi in Milan.
And the government is set to introduce another bill that will give top public figures immunity from prosecution.
Mr Berlusconi has faced corruption charges in the courts for many years but has always protested his innocence.
Mr Berlusconi's personal lawyer, a member of parliament who helped draft the new legislation, told members of the Foreign Press Association that the new measures were perfectly fair.
He pointed out that those accused could ask for their trial to go ahead normally, which he said Mr Berlusconi would do in one pending case.
Nonetheless, Mr Berlusconi is coming under increasing political attack for concentrating on his own personal legal problems at the beginning of his new stint as head of government, rather than on such important national issues as the future of the almost bankrupt national airline Alitalia and the Naples rubbish crisis.