Liberal moonbat
Bush ally trounced in Aussie election
Australian prime minister John Howard's conservative party suffered a huge defeat in Saturday's national elections. Howard was even close to losing his own seat in the parliament, a humiliating setback for a national leader.
Labor leader Kevin Rudd, soon to be the new prime minister, vowed to immediately sign the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming and withdraw all Australian troops from Iraq.
http://www.theage.com.au/
Super Minion
http://origin.mercurynews.com/ci_7547817?nclick_check=1Originally Posted by gabosaurus
AP:
Not exactly:
...Rudd has named global warming as his top priority, and his signing of the Kyoto Protocol will leave the U.S. as the only industrialized country not to have joined it.
Rudd said he would withdraw Australia's 550 combat troops from Iraq, leaving twice that number in mostly security roles. Howard had said all the troops will stay as long as needed...
Senior Member
The winds of war shift.
A chance for a new beginning, like a dawn of reconciliation.
Liberal moonbat
Aussie election foreshadows U.S. '08
If you followed the progress of the Australian general election campaign, you saw that the campaigns were almost as much as John Howard's allegiance to Bush policies as they were about domestic issues. The Aussie Conservatives wanted to continue support, while Labor wanted a new and different path.
Labor ended up with a huge victory, controlling every part of the country. Howard might become only the second standing prime minister to lose his seat in the national parliament.
The American populace is feeling the same way. They might not say so publicly, but they are generally tired of sending their family members and neighbors overseas to get their heads blown off in an illegal war of aggression. They are also tired of the Bushies raping the national infrastructure to finance military programs.
I see the Dems (unpopular as they may be) winning the White House and a two-third majority of the House and Senate. Not because they favor the Dem candidates, but as a referendum against Bush aggression and stupidity.
Enemy of the State
Defeating Bush is your only goal. You folks are going to win even if he's not playing in the game.
When I die I'm sure to go to heaven, cause I spent my time in hell.
You get more with a kind word and a two by four, than you do with just a kind word.
Enemy of the State
The libs of the world are uniting to defeat Bush and the US at any cost.
When I die I'm sure to go to heaven, cause I spent my time in hell.
You get more with a kind word and a two by four, than you do with just a kind word.
Senior Member
It appears Poland has finally spoken as well:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-w...071123/poland/
Liberal moonbat
About time that other countries come to their senses. They should make up their own minds and stop allowing the Bushies to bully them.
Sooner or later, you people are going to have to admit that Bush has dragged the GOP down the toilet and flushed them for the next four years or so.
Senior Member
I say the one's who are destroying this country...are the one's who are cheering the fact that the United States could be losing a close ally, just so they can celebrate this as a failure against George Bush..
Pretty Pathetic...
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Yes that is a .50
gabosoreass
It is so clear that you have allowed yourself to be pumped so full of missinformation that I am not sure where to begin.
I asked you in a previous thread to tell us what your crystal ball had to say .
Because you seem to enjoy predicting the future for us all .
I really thought you would have something more beliveable than to expect us all to believe that Australia will be the political trend seter for Americian public opinion.
What you do not seem to be able to grasp is that Americians feel a larger sense of pourpose than most other countries.
While our hearts are breaking everytime one of our sons or daughters are wounded or killed serving our country.
Most and I really do mean Most as in the true majority many times the silent majority . Understand the stakes and the gravity of this situation.
We have to win in Bagdad or our next generation will be there fighting and dying for the same ground.
Wake Up. Bullies only understand one thing , FORCE!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must come to grips with the facts of human nature.
War is the only form of forgein relations that some will ever understand.
And all your Professors have yet to offer any soulutions.that do not involve Defeat.
We are Americians not Australians.
And by the way the people of Australia have been supporter's of the war on terror from the beginning . Even Britian has found it acceptable to start pulling out troops because of the lessening need for thier presences.
You know . VICTORY.
That must make your blood boil to be faced with the reality of the troop surge getting the job done.
So I really fail to see what you have to be making such grand predictions about.
Common people . You know us.
The ones with common sense.
The ones your Professers tell you to hate. Because we lack the education to
be making any important decisions
We would say that gabosoreass is just making a mountain out of a molehill.
If you wonder why it takes me so long to reply, it is because I only have one hand that still works well enough to type.
And I will take issue with your signature again .
I regret that I have but one life to give to my country.
Nathen Hale - 1778 -
For Freedom's battle once begun ,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Though battled oft' Is never won.
Corporal. 15th Combat engineers 77-80
Eat the rich avoid Rush
Iraq didn't feature in the election. Early in the piece Rudd made mention that our 550 (yes, that's all) troops in Iraq will be pulled out, in consultation with the US, and redeployed to Afghanistan. That was it. The election was fought on domestic issues, in particular the deeply unpopular Work Choices policy (industrial - or as you would call it , labor - relations).
Bush is extremely unpopular in Australia but Australians, except for a tiny minority of nutters, value our alliance with the US. No party that had an ant-US policy would be elected to office in this country.
"Unbloodybreakable" DCI Gene Hunt, 2008
Senior Member
Thanks diuretic..I was hoping to hear from you on all this...
Do you think this Rudd guy is going to be good for you all??
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Yes that is a .50
Thank you D
I did not know that
For Freedom's battle once begun ,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Though battled oft' Is never won.
Corporal. 15th Combat engineers 77-80
Eat the rich avoid Rush
I think he is going to be good. The country has very high expectations of him and his government and I feel if he falters they will have no mercy on him at the next election (3 year terms for federal governments here).
"Unbloodybreakable" DCI Gene Hunt, 2008
Eat the rich avoid Rush
You're most welcome. There are some good media outlets to check if anyone is interested.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au (Murdoch press)
http://www.smh.com.au (Fairfax press, slightly "liberal" in the US sense)
http://www.theage.com.au (as per the SMH)
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/ (Murdoch again)
"Unbloodybreakable" DCI Gene Hunt, 2008
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