DECLARING the US to be the great liberator, George W. Bush has vowed to confront the world's dictators by force if necessary to ensure the "untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world". In his second inaugural address, the US President warned rulers of outlaw regimes that Washington was dedicated to "the great objective of ending tyranny" because spreading freedom was the best way of ensuring its own security. Mr Bush sought to use this argument to justify the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq, where more than 1300 US troops have died, no weapons of mass destruction have been found and the bill is running at $US1billion ($1.32billion) a day.

Standing on the west front of the flag-bedecked US Capitol, he avoided mentioning terrorism, September 11 or Iraq, but in a clear reference to the war, urged patience, saying: "Our country has accepted obligations that are difficult to fulfill, and would be dishonourable to abandon."

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