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[font=Helvetica]WAR MORE YEARS[/font]<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=390 border=0><TBODY></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=* border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Nov 4 2004


</TD></TR><TR><TD>America's global battle against terrorism stays on the offensive



</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>From Anthony Harwood In Boston



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GEORGE Bush now has a mandate to do whatever he likes. With the lion's share of the popular vote and his Republican buddies even stronger in Congress, he will relish the political clout.

He is now an unfettered right-wing president in a second term, who knows he doesn't have to face the electorate again.

Mr Bush opposes abortion and gay marriage, doesn't give a stuff about the environment, is against gun control and believes troops should stay in Iraq for as long as it takes.

Expect to see more of the current national security advisor Condoleezza Rice strutting the world stage. She's favourite to take over from Colin Powell as Secretary of State.

Powell is stepping down to spend more time with his family - but the real reason is he's probably fed up with the Rumsfeld-Cheney pincer movement frustrating him at every turn.

Attorney-General John Ashcroft is also expected to quit with the cries of millions of Americans ringing in his ears, wondering what happened to their civil rights under the Patriot Act. Tom Ridge at the Department of Homeland Security is also off - too many sleepless nights for him.

On the world stage, we can expect some sort of showdown with North Korea and Iran over nuclear proliferation - and who knows where that will take us.

In the Middle East we can only hope that Bush finds his way again on the Road Map to Peace.

With Yasser Arafat's failing health, a Palestinian succession crisis is round the corner and the President will need to hold his nerve.

POLLS show Bush won Florida largely through the Jewish vote, because of his strong backing of Israel.

But he musn't show any favours if he is to live up to his promise of the establishment of two separate states, one Palestinian, one Israeli.

On the environment, Bush's record is terrible and don't expect it to get much better.

Apart from kissing goodbye to the Kyoto global warming accord, you can also expect Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge to be opened up for oil drilling.

Clean air laws will be scrapped and moves to cut pollution from power plants left to the ravages of the market place.

Where Kerry had high ideals about freeing America from its dependence on Middle East oil, Bush's big idea on the environment was to splash out £550million on developing a hydrogen- fuelled car.

But the most worrying thing for most people will be what Dubya will do about terrorism.

Nobody knows where his policy of "staying on the offensive" against al-Qaeda will take us.

"Axis of Evil" countries like Syria, Iran and North Korea are still out there, defying Washington to whip them into line.

THE one consolation is that with Iraq in such a mess, America just doesn't have the troops to get bogged down in another theatre of war.

If you think Iraq was bad, it would be a picnic compared to Iran. With Bush still at the White House, al-Qaeda's position in the world - and particularly the Middle East - can only get stronger.

He is their biggest recruiter and that will not change as long as Iraq descends into civil war.

Bush will continue to portray it as a fight for freedom against tyranny - and that's fine with Osama bin Laden, who talked in last week's videotape about Bush being intoxicated with oil .

Bush spent much of the campaign boasting about how his policy of staying on the offensive had kept the terrorists from America's door.

And while it is true that there has been no outrages on US soil since the September 11 attacks, the rest of the world in the meantime has burned.

A SECOND Bush term will use its power to overhaul the US Supreme Court, which has several members who are about to retire.

Currently six of the nine-strong panel support the famous 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling, which backs abortion.

But a new wave of Bush appointments, buttressed by a strongly Republican Congress, could produce a reversal.

That would mean a return to a patchwork of state laws, some of which would probably ban the procedure.

A Bush victory also challenges the legacy of Christopher Reeve and his campaign for stem cell research to aid the fight against major illnesses.

The president has warned: "Embryonic stem cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell...science is important, but so's ethics."

One Kerry supporter was pictured in prayer at the Democrat contender's post-election rally. Her sentiment is shared by many across the world today.

a.harwood

@mirror.co.uk

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In the future, link to most of the article, rather than quote all of it.

Does it make a difference?

No.


Well actually, yes. But if has no effect on you, because you can quite clearly read it just as well here as you can there. Easier, perhaps, because some people are to lazy to click another link.

Not to mention that should the article vanish for whatever reason, one can still read it here.

Does it make a difference?

Yes.

We're not in the business of being sued for copyright infringement, and plagiarism. You can copy excerpts, but I'd rather you didn't rip the entire article from the site.

Give me one case of a newsgroup (exempting FOX) suing anyone for redistrubuting what they publish on their website for free access. It's only plagarism and/or copyright infringement if I claim it as my own, or don't provide the name of the author, or present the ideas therein as my own. Clearly, judging by the author's name and a link being present, I'm not doing that. Not to mention than no newsgroup is going to take the time to track down the Administrators and sue all of them (since we have no clear owner, though whoever registered the domain might be liable, I guess) for a few dollars (which is probably all any of you could realistically be sued for.

There are plenty of good reasons to provide the full text - which is why people like Matthew Good do it. And these are people who could be sued for millions.

Calm down.

Eh. No one's going to sue us. Give proper credit and everyone will smile. At worst, the article can always be removed.

But don't argue with Kas, Drayson. If it's that important to him, you might as well do it. Better safe then sorry.

The only thing I'm willing to allow broach upon copyright infringment, on this site, is Star Wars material. But even that, none of us can afford to fight Lucasarts over, so we'll have to back down. Luckily Lucasarts is nice to its fanclubs.

Who the hell is Britian?...

...and to be more accurate, I would suggest this slight alteration to the above title:

What Does The Daily Mirror think of you?...

Where Kerry had high ideals about freeing America from its dependence on Middle East oil, Bush's big idea on the environment was to splash out £550million on developing a hydrogen- fuelled car.

Ironically, these happen to be the same thing. Hydrogen fuel cells are the way of the future, for cars.

A SECOND Bush term will use its power to overhaul the US Supreme Court, which has several members who are about to retire.

Currently six of the nine-strong panel support the famous 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling, which backs abortion.

But a new wave of Bush appointments, buttressed by a strongly Republican Congress, could produce a reversal.

That would mean a return to a patchwork of state laws, some of which would probably ban the procedure.

Another slightly ironic point is, that's how this country is supposed to work...

What Does The Daily Mirror think of you?...

Agreed.

Not to change the subject of whatever that article was about or copyright stuff...



Seth?

Is Britian not a politically correct term anymore?

I must confess I always thought of England (and associated territories) as Britian... it was only when I began shipping internationally that I found they also use the fancy title: United Kingdom (which sounds cooler than "states" imo).

And out of further curiousity, does Britian/England/UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have some sort of Commonwealth going or is everybody pretty much independent and does their own thing?

(just personal curiosity mind you)