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Kicking off his second four-year term, President George W. Bush Thursday delivered an inaugural address filled with the righteous resolve and soaring rhetoric that are music to his core constituency but will almost certainly grate on the nerves of almost everybody else, both here and abroad.
The speech, which was studded with religious references, was dominated by a sense of certainty and even triumphalism about Washington's special mission to spread “freedom” and “liberty”