Bush might as well be on Mars as far as global security is concerned

THE Martians may not realise it, but they are part of US President George W Bush’s re-election plans to hang onto the lease on the White House for another term.

He plans to send men back to the moon by 2015 as a kind of a halting site on their way to Mars in a multi-billion dollar project.

By that time, the Americans will still be trying to figure out what to do with Iraq, or even why they're there in the first place.