I wonder what would be the ideal woman so far as the left is concerned.

To be divorced or single, no dependant children (having aborted them all), denigrating males, living off the taxpayer and calling themselves oppressed.

Certainly not Hillary, Sarah, Cindy, Barbara, Laura nor Bristol but perhaps Michelle after all she is condescending, verbose, sophisticated, black, Ivy League educated, well-wed to and supports a nuanced socialist, supports third trimester abortion and the killing of infants who survive botched abortions, is a leftie Christian who is silent on creatism and hates America.

You seem a little stressed, keith. Perhaps you could go sailing, taking HRS/Timkins with you - he could be useful as a sea anchor or something. No need to come back in a hurry.

AND CJ STRIKES AGAIN. A TELLING BLOW STRUCK FOR JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN (oops ) AUSTRALIAN WAY.

CJ,

Why do you even bother with OLO when all you are interested in is Flaming. You clearly have no interest in the debate so what is the point?

Senior Victorian,

I too agree completely with your assessment. Palin is clearly going to prove a handful for the so called progressives.

KIPP,

Britain and Argentina were at war. Argentinian planes sank 6 or 7 British ships with attendant loss of life. Indeed two days after the Belgrano went down, HMAS Sheffield was hit and sunk by an Argentine Air Force launched exocet missile.

Further, during wartime, under international law the heading or location of a belligerent naval vessel has no bearing on its status. It is still a legitimate target. In addition, the captain of the Belgrano, Hector Bonzo, has testified that the attack was legitimate.

The loss of the Belgrano ended any Argentinian Naval threat to the British task force. It was an important military victory for the British.

BTW, The SUNS headline was published before they knew that Belgrano was sunk with 300 lives lost

The whole issue of the US Presidential Electioneering is about as interesting and intelligent as WWW, WWF, WWE Afterburn and similar rubbish! The difference is that with WWE they tell you that the whole deal is fake, and it costs you less to get in to one of their performances, than it did for the US campaigns!

We all know that the inevitable result will be a McCain victory and so the war machine will grind ever onwards!

These people are "toilet cubicle" cunning, egotistical, gun-waving, drum-beating warmonging parasites, preaching to their brain-dead followers, holding a bible in one hand and a gun in the other!

We heard the phrase from the old idiot "WE will stay in Afghanistan until we win!....and WE WILL WIN!"

That says it all......the ravings of a madman!

What is wrong with the mentality of these people? They bought into a civil war in Korea and achieved nothing short of the loss of many lives,...result : stalemate!

They bought into a civil war in Vietnam and got severely flogged, again with the loss of many lives!

They have painted themselves into a corner in Iraq and Afghanistan, whilst at the same time are incessantly provoking North Korea, Iran and now Moscow, all to keep their mainline industries flourishing with the never-ending manufacture of weaponry!....AND THESE PEOPLE PROFESS TO BE CHRISTIANS!

Cuphandle,

Lets just get a little perspective and give the rabid, America-hating bile a rest for just a moment.

The US

- Bought into WW1 when there was no reason for them to have done so, tipping the scales in favour of the allies.

- Bought into WW2 and followed a beat Hitler first strategy which was incredibly unselfish, given that they were only directly attacked by Japan.

- Bought into the UN operation to free South Korea from the communist North. The South Koreans have cause to thank them every day for that act of kindness. That you could so blithely dismiss the fact that North Korea is a HELL on earth for a large proportion of its citizens who have been cast into "re-education" (ie. the salt mines) is not surprising. The loony-left have a massive blindspot where REAL oppression is concerned.

(As an aside I will relate a little story I saw recently on Aussie doctors restoring sight in North Korea. After having her sight restored one 70 year old lady thanked a photo of her dear leader instead of the doctor who gave her back her sight, promising to work harder in the salt mine. I nearly sh!t.)

- Bought into a war in Vietnam to stop the spread of communism across Asia, especially to Thailand and Indonesia. The war itself was lost although they were sabotaged from within by their people right at the point at which they were finally winning.

- Bought into Iraq, and it is becoming clearer by the day that they have won an incredible victory there, although it is still fragile.

- Bought into Afghanistan when the rulers of that country refused to hand over the terrorist organisation which was responsible for one of the largest incidents of mass murder ever. Having bought into this conflict the US along with its partners is responsible for seeing a return to democracy and reconstruction of that countries infrastructure. The successful delivery of a massive new turbine for the Kajaki Dam Hydro-electric plant will see electricity available for millions of Afghans.