Middle East reaction mixed on US elections

In a disillusioned Middle East where calls for a change - any change - in the US leadership resonated throughout the run-up to the election, Kuwait is clearly Bush country.

For months, Arabs have expressed anger and worry that Mr Bush made the Middle East more unstable with his invasion of Iraq, and he is widely perceived as an unabashed supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. But in Kuwait, he is first and foremost the son of George HW Bush, the president who liberated Kuwait from Iraqi occupation in the 1991 Gulf War.