The Drudge Report is reporting (hence the name) that British newspapers are seizing on mocking President Bush’s promise to fight tyranny.

The TELEGRAPH slapped: “DEFIANT BUSH DOESN’T MENTION THE WAR, President George W Bush began his second term in unapologetic style yesterday, pledging to maintain his muscular foreign policy and spread freedom “to the darkest corners of the world.”

The TIMES rips: “HIS SECOND-TERM MISSION: TO END TYRANNY ON EARTH, Four years ago he was the Accidental President, scion of a ruling family propelled into the highest office more by genetics and duty than by political zeal and ideological mission.”

And there are more. I don’t have much to say about this. It’s bewildering to me. All I have to add is that it’s because of American vision like this that Europeans have the liberty to print this. But I don’t want to blame all of Europe. It is certainly not their fault that the tabloids are printing these things, and I’m sure that there are many who support this cause.

In the mean time, freedom’s real allies are rallying behind the inauguration speech.

Australia and Japan, two countries that have backed Bush’s military intervention in Iraq with their own forces, praised Bush’s role on the world stage and his call for freedom to combat tyranny.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said the experience built up by Bush over the past four years meant he would continue to “actively contribute to world peace and stability.”

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Australia supported President Bush’s call for freedom, liberty and democracy.

“These are principles on which our country has been built, as well as the United States, and in fact they are amongst the most important values that bind our two countries together,” Downer told Australian Broadcasting radio.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, considered America’s closest ally in the war in Iraq, also spoke of the importance of democracy in securing world peace.

In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Blair said: “We can take security and military measures against terrorism but… the best prospect of peaceful co-existence lies in the spread of democracy and human rights.”

Damn right. Especially what Blair says at the end.