Ugh: Howard loses in Australia
John Howard has lost the government in Australia. Liberals are celebrating and will run from Iraq and sign the idiotic, moronic and economy-wrecking Kyoto treaty.
Our friend MK has some thoughts at MKs Views.
Posted by Big Mo
November 24th, 2007 at 10:28 am
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November 24th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Thanks Big Mo..
Just a note to clear things up, the Liberal party here in Australia are the Conservatives, Labor are the leftists.
And yes, we’ll be getting shaky in Iraq and signing kyoto and changing the climate, it’s been a few hours and i’m getting impatient for the utopia that was promised to arrive with the new leader.
November 24th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Mo. Good luck to Mizzou tonight.
November 24th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
MK - you have a great site and you’re a very talented writer. I’m sorry to see Howard go. But like you said in your post, the voters will have no one to blame but themselves for this error in judgement.
Just like here, sometimes people forget how bad things were under leftist rule when conservatives run the show for a long period of time. That’s how we ended up with Bill Clinton and you (unfortunately) now have the Aussie version of Al Gore.
But, take heart! The Australian people will soon realize their mistake when they get the tax bill from Rudd.
November 24th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Thank you, Big Mo, for posting this.
November 24th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Why so hysterical? You’ve still got all these stupid blogs.
November 25th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
norad- uh, yeah, whatever.
RP - MIZZOU-RAH!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
It’s strange to me that when democracy works as it did in Australia with the humiliating defeat of John Howard the howls of protest are the loudest from the Republican, Bush-loving acolytes. Adding to their ignominy is the recent election in Poland where an another anti-Iraq War candidate, Donald Tusk, won on a pledge to pull his country’s troops out of Iraq.
It matters not one bit to those who genuflect before all things Bush that the citizens of Australia exercised their democratic right when they overwhelmingly voted out Howard in favor of Kevin Rudd who, by the way, was favored to win this election months ago. Like Rudd, the Polish Prime Ministger Tusk ran and won on a pledge to pull his country’s troopsout of Iraq.
Yes, democracy can be a messy thing. Winston Churchill once said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the rest.
Of course, we’ve seen several other “coalition of the willing” governments capitulate since Bush launched his preemptive war against Iraq in March 2003.
One of Bush’s early western supporters of course was Spain where pro-Bush war ally, Jose Maria Anzar, was defeated handily by Jose Luis Zapatero who ran on an anti-Iraq War platform, promising to remove Spain’s troops from Iraq. In Spain’s election 76% of its citizens went to the polls to oust Bush ally, Jose Anzar.
Also, Italian voters ousted Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and voted in Romano Prodi who highlighted his campaign against Berlusconi for involving Italy in Bush’s Iraq war. And, as we know, Gordon Brown, the new British Prime Minister and no Bush lap dog as was his predecessor, Tony Blair, has vowed to pull out his country’s remaining troops by the end of 2008.
Though Bush is losing support almost daily in America, he is still moderately successful in his campaign of fear-mongering, stating time and again that if we don’t kill all the bad guys in Iraq, we’ll be fighting them off mano a mano in the aisles of Wal-Mart. Fear indeed is a powerful tool and one used quite effectively by autocrats and totalitarian states as history reveals.
It is a sad commentary on our electoral process that any who wish to grab the top spot in the White House must pander to the special interest groups like the mostly corrupt unions and amnesty-loving liberals or the Bob Jones University crowd whose president and namesake, Bob Jones, Jr., has endorsed a candidate whose religious tenets he is diametrically opposed to.
Bush’s Iraq War in 2007 has devolved into little more than nation-building after the most powerful military in the world successfully deposed the dictator, Saddam Hussein, over 4-1/2 years ago. It has reached a cost of nearly $1 trillion in U.S. taxpayer money. Accept it or not, the Islamic Shiite government of Nouri al-Maliki is forging ever closer ties with its militant Islamic Shiite brethern, Iran.
Remember, it was al-Maliki and his entire parliament in the summer of 2006 who denounced Israel in the Lebanon-Israeli conflict and gave their support to the terrorist group, Hezbollah. Is this what we want our men and women in uniform to fight and die for?
I don’t think it’s worth one more American life to perpetuate a war that didn’t have one thing to do with 9/11 regardless of those who have been indoctrinated to believe otherwise.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
xsd4tex - nice ttwisted rewriting of history there. UM, did anyone here claim fraud and deceit in Australia, as liberals have been whining and moaning about since 2000? Nope. We’re lamenting that a good man lost and that Aussies will be taking a course that we don’t agree with.
And for the rest of your blige, take your “Bush indoctrination” crap and stick it where the sun don’t shine, pal. You obviously aren’t a reader of this site, because if you were you’d realize how incredibly stupid you sound. Agreeing with the president on many issues does not make one “indoctrinated” no more than sitting in a liberal college professor’s classroom turns you into a mind-numbed liberal idiot.
If you actually read this site on a regular basis, you’d know t hat we disagree with the president on almost as many issues as we agree with him on.
So sod off, swampy, and take your arrogant nonsense with you.
(By the way, no one has ever said 9/11 was caused by, was perpetuated by or was connected to Iraq in any way, shape or form EXCEPT that Iraq was a breeding ground for the same mentality that fostered 9/11. If you moronic liberals ever opened your minds just a teeny bit instead of — heh — letting yourselves be indoctrinated by the liberal media, Democratic politicans and liberal rabblerousers, you’d actually understand that.