Bush's re-election not good news The re-election of President Bush dominated British newspapers Thursday, and many cast impartiality aside in reporting the result.

"How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?" the liberal
Daily Mirror asked in a Page 1 headline. Inside,
pages of coverage were headed "U.S. election disaster."

The Independent bore the front-page headline "Four
more years" on a black page with grim pictures that
included a hooded Iraqi prisoner and an orange-clad
detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

The left-leaning Guardian led its features section
with a black page bearing the tiny words "Oh, God."
Inside, a story described how Bush's victory "catapaulted
liberal Britain into collective depression."

Across Europe, many newspapers expressed dismay at the
prospect of another term for Bush, a president often
regarded as inflexible and unilateralist.

"Oops -- they did it again," Germany's left-leaning
Tageszeitung newspaper said in a front-page English
headline. The cover of the Swiss newsmagazine Facts
called Bush's re-election "Europe's Nightmare."