Bush ally trounced in Aussie election

[truthmatters]

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...

Here is the part you are missing. Bush is NOT the United States. This is just more evidence that Bush has screwed up our foreign policy. Now when we get a new Democratic president in a year these guys will get along great. Then you will spew hate for both their president and ours.

[Sitarro]

Here is the part you are missing. Bush is NOT the United States. This is just more evidence that Bush has screwed up our foreign policy. Now when we get a new Democratic president in a year these guys will get along great. Then you will spew hate for both their president and ours.

Hillary Clinton is certainly NOT the United States.....only represents dikes and commies(union twats and etc.). Osamabamma is certainly Not the United States....... represents only a fraction of light skinned blacks and Oprah loving, guilt ridden white woman. John Boy Edwards...... represents the fag nation...... who could possibly give a shit about his gay self? Nobody else on the left even registers as a blip on radar.

You leftist dimwits have a lot to criticize with your own group of political hacks.

[truthmatters]

Hillary Clinton is certainly NOT the United States.....only represents dikes and commies(union twats and etc.). Osamabamma is certainly Not the United States....... represents only a fraction of light skinned blacks and Oprah loving, guilt ridden white woman. John Boy Edwards...... represents the fag nation...... who could possibly give a shit about his gay self? Nobody else on the left even registers as a blip on radar.

You leftist dimwits have a lot to criticize with your own group of political hacks.

See what I mean you are already full of insults for anyone who is not Bush.

I just will wait and see how insane you all get when there are very few Republicans in the government because of their horrible handling of everything from this war to katrina and our economy. I know you will blame EVERYTHING on the dems who have to clean up Georgies and your mess though.

[Trigg]

Here is the part you are missing. Bush is NOT the United States. This is just more evidence that Bush has screwed up our foreign policy. Now when we get a new Democratic president in a year these guys will get along great. Then you will spew hate for both their president and ours.

You need to go back and read Diuretic post #11. Unless of course you think you know more about what's happening there than he does.

NO one is spewing hatred for their new president, you idiot.

[truthmatters]

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.

I think you missed this part?

[truthmatters]

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...

BTW I never said we were losing an ally it was others.

I also did not say anyone was currently spewing hatered for their leader.

[stephanie]

BTW I never said we were losing an ally it was others.

I also did not say anyone was currently spewing hatred for their leader.

Well...you've lost me all the way around here...
If you never said anything about losing an ally and it was others, then that must of been who I was referring to...

I don't know anything about your second statement...You don't find the word hate anywhere in what I said...

Perhaps you have a guilty conscious??

Cheerios...

[Trigg]

I think you missed this part?

You are extremely adept at splitting hairs, do you work for an insurance company by any chance?

YOU said:

This is just more evidence that Bush has screwed up our foreign policy

Diuretic said:

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

He also said:

Iraq didn't feature in the election

[bullypulpit]

All politics IS local, as Tip O'Neil once said. But, on occasion, it has wider implications, as John Howard's electoral defeat shows.

Australia will be redeploying it's combat troops to Afghanistan...Where the Bush administration should have concentrated it efforts all along instead of spilling our blood and treasure in Iraq in pursuit of its misguided, misbegotten vendetta on Saddam Hussein.

Once Rudd and his Labor government approve the Kyoto Protocols, the US will be the only major industrial nation left which hasn't signed on.

These actions will only serve to further isolate the Bush administration from the rest of the world. Little enough makes it through the maze of delusion which serves as its foreign policy as it is.

[bullypulpit]

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...

The United States won't be losing an ally. The Bush administration will be losing a willing dupe, in the form of John Howard, to its misguided policies.

[stephanie]

The United States won't be losing an ally. The Bush administration will be losing a willing dupe, in the form of John Howard, to its misguided policies.

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[retiredman]

The United States won't be losing an ally. The Bush administration will be losing a willing dupe, in the form of John Howard, to its misguided policies.

bingo!

[jimnyc]

bingo!

Care to share with the rest of us and list his misguided policies that made him a "willing dupe" of the Bush administration?

[retiredman]

Care to share with the rest of us and list his misguided policies that made him a "willing dupe" of the Bush administration?

Iraq, and then there's Iraq.... but wait! let's not forget Iraq!

[jimnyc]

Iraq, and then there's Iraq.... but wait! let's not forget Iraq!

So every nation that stood their ground in supporting Iraq (coalition of the willing) are all willing dupes?

So basically, you know nothing about what Howard stands for and are just clapping because someone who supports action in Iraq lost an election, and of course you're more than willing to throw Bush in as an excuse. Generally speaking, when someone states policies, which is plural, they would do better than just regurgitating one stance.

Did you ever think for a second that Howard stood his ground because he believes he was doing the right thing, and in the best interest of the future of his country, and the rest of the world? How does that make him a willing dupe?