conga-line of arselickers

* " (Bloomberg) -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard, whom U.S. President George W. Bush called his ``deputy sheriff'' in Asia, faces little more than 50-50 odds that he'll win re-election as the country's second-longest serving leader." which of course is patently wrong. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=ac0RKpGVeAYg&refer=australia

* heres the 'dispute about trees' "Latham has been courting the Green vote by offering a plan to save Tasmania's giant old-growth trees, which are being clear-cut and shipped to Japan to make paper products."

* "The most recent poll on Iraq showed 47 percent of 1,200 voters wanted troops home by Christmas, against 45 percent who wanted them to remain ``at least'' until the second half of this year. The error margin in the May 1 and 2 Newspoll survey was 3 percentage points." hmm - in other news, the last time ozzies were polled about lathams 'troops home' policy was 5 months ago. despite, say, an election. or say, the indobomb. odd. or the fact that we are at war. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=aaOAzB6qKVEc&refer=australia

* "The difference in the government and Labour’s stances on Iraq has led to comparisons with the Spanish election earlier this year that was marred by the deadly Madrid train bombings, which were seen as an attempt to influence voters in a race" not by many! http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3596362

* "From Israel's point of view, a victory for Latham will be a total loss, even though Labour also has a long history of friendship with Israel. But Howard is the quintessential friend who agreed to isolate Australia at the UN by joining the ostracized pro-Israeli "bloc" with the U.S. and Micronesia... "The Australians were far from ecstatic about their country's enthusiastic participation in Bush's Iraq campaign, but the presence of Australian troops there is merely symbolic" 2000 troops in the invading force is merely symbolic? http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485967.html

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