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By Bruce Haigh, published 22/8/2007Howard is planning to pull the bulk of Australian troops out of Iraq over the next six months beginning the month in the run up to the election.
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You forgot to mention Howard's, Downer's and Kelty's bullying of Indonesia. You remember forcing them to give independence to East Timor, forcing them to stop the people smuggling that led to the 'boatpeople invasion', forcing them to implement anti terror policy, [The formation of the AFP backed anti-terrot Unit 88 (?)], forcing them to put on trial Bashir and to jail him.
Did you forget those things or would that simply have given the Howard Government some good press?
It is astonishing to see all the Labor apologists in the media excusing Rudd his faux pax's and condemning the Government for doing all the things the Labor Party does as a simple matter of course. Bruce's article is simply another in a long line of such unbalanced rubbish.
Just to have a look at the polls re Rudds grubby little episode in NY. I checked the odds with the gambling outfits this week. The vast bulk of money this week was going on Howard to win.
One other curious little thing I noticed. All those minimising Rudd's gubby little episode were middle aged men and obviously 30+ labor women. Someone ought to do a poll of younger women ... you know those between 18 and 30, and grandmothers. I think the results would absolutely stun most pundits. My mum used to refer to men, Rudd's age, indulging in Rudd's antic's 'dirty old men'. The term is still used...extensively.
And the silliest comment this week was on Sky News and repeated in the commercials and the ABC that the rise in interest rates had hurt the Government ... when...that's right ... the two-party preferred gap between Labor and the Coalition actually closed.
Some are so biased they think we are all silly enough to swallow their 'spin' when the facts clearly show the real position.