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You MUST read this: http://afr.com/articles/2003/09/25/1064083117132.html

"...the defining characteristic of the Bush Administration is that it uses its power not to implement its policies, but uses its policies to entrench its power. Not content to implement policy in the existing framework of the two-party system at home and the existing international order abroad, the Bush team seeks to bend the framework, restructure the order.

The actions of the Bush White House show that it seeks, above all, to structurally strengthen the Republican Party at the structural expense of its Democrat opponents. That is, the Bush Administration is working to permanently entrench the Republican Party in power. And in a close parallel, Bush's foreign policy is working to impose a new vision of permanent US global domination."

- THE MAIN GAME, by Peter Hartcher

"We will decide who comes to this country and the manner in which they come," said John Howard - but apparently he and the Speaker are happy for the Chinese to decide who comes into our House of Parliament (The Age , 25/10). Imagine the political uproar if an Australian official tried to prevent a Chinese person from entering China's house of the people.

Not only were Australian citizens barred from entering Parliament when the head of state of another country spoke to the house on Thursday, but the next day a foreign national was deciding which Australians were to be allowed in - and not a peep out of our so-called leaders.
Michael Butler, letter to The Age

It's not mindless anti-Americanism that has more Australians protesting Bush's imperial sleepover than Hu Jintao's visit - it's informed citizenship. We don't have Chinese spy bases on Australian soil, we didn't participate in their invasion of Tibet and the Chinese aren't holding any Aussies without trial and in solitary confinement.

Besides, the US, like Australia, is at least nominally still a democracy and its Government theoretically open to persuasion.
Liam Cranley, letter to The Age

Consider what we have just seen. The so-called "leader of the free world" visits a "friendly" country, surrounded by armed guards, with fighter aircraft patrolling overhead, so afraid for his own safety that he dare not come within shouting distance of ordinary people. Osama bin Laden must be laughing.
J.Hussain, letter to The Age

To what depth has politics sunk when shock-jocks and media barons are invited to The Lodge to meet Bush, yet Simon Crean, who represents at least half the population, is excluded?
Val McKenna, letter to The Age

Bush says he aint intimidated... sitting in the Oval Orifice on the other side of the world, the bow-legged Texas idiot!

Hellelujah!

I will sue you for plagiarising me!
-John Howard, PM

You must be George W Bush!

dont know. dont fucken care.

And now let's hear for the Coalition of the Killing! Yay, Spain!

A Spanish army sergeant died Sunday from a shot fired accidentally by a colleague, the defense ministry said. He was the third Spaniard to die in Iraq since the war "ended".

Spain has a vast force of 1,300 very anxious troops stationed in Iraq as part of a multinational brigade under the command of Poland.

Whaaa...!!!! Did you say POLAND!?!

The latest dead Spaniard died after a gun being handled by a colleague went off, according to the ministry.

A Spanish navy captain died in the bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad in August, and a Spanish intelligence officer working out of the embassy was shot and killed outside his home earlier this month.

Hey, what ever happend to that brave little band of Eritrean troops? I think there were about 50 of them in there helping out those poor struggling US forces.

- Dusty Davo from Derrimut

I'm voting for Shannon (that mediocre, white bread white boy!)

Is that chicken thing gonna be on TV?

Was Saddam a neighbour?

As long as they get rid of Neighbours thats fine by me.

Airfarce One should have been refused landing rights!

You just watch how the US fucks Australia over on so-called "free trade". Just ask the Canadians and Mexicans how sore their asses are! For starters, Aussies can kiss their Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme goodbye, along with local content rules for TV etc.

Up until George W(acko) Bush came along, there probably were still a few people left round the world who hoped the USA really were the "good guys", a democratic and - if nothing else - generally benign world leader. Well, that bow-legged dumb fuck from Texas has sure cleared up that litte fucken fantasy!

I vote we sent PM John Howard (the human? rodent) and his equally devious bitch-wife Janus to the Nauru refugee "detention centre" (aka concentraion camp) to die of fucken kidney failure because of the shitty water just like the poor fucken in-mates from Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Revenge of the Idiot Son"?

The so-called Bush Doctrine is based on three termite-infested pillars:

1. America's unrivalled power
2. Unilateralism
3. Preemption

On all three, America has fucked-up and failed in both poor old bloody Afghanistan, and poor old bloody Iraq. Not to mention the rest of the planet.

Spare a shekel for a bummed-out President hoping to con a few troops out of the very nations he spat on BEFORE the American invasion of Iraq?

Speaking of liars, the Yanks are still after Chavez: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1023-10.htm

Lordy, the "point of living" is so sharp is hurts.

Verily, 'tis just so!

L'i'l Jessy will no doubt make a fortune from her own dramatic retelling of her "great escape" from her evil Iraqi captors (i.e. doctors!).

yeh but Jessica is cute. Is she gunna pose in Playboy?

Angry Patriot

whats the name of the movie he produced???

As is his "war on terror" and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, George W Bush is a fraud.

THIS is why I make my news XENOX NEWS! Keep up the good work, boyos!
- Dusty Davo from Derrimut

You call this a "joke"? Shouldn't the topic be headed "fucking idiot U.S. presidents"?

Yep, Americans really ARE that stupid!

I vote we immediately air-lift both Mr and Mrs PM Magoo to Malaysia!
- Dusty Davo from Derrimut

Ahhhh!
Your just jealous.
And remember I'm a sheriff now!

John W. Howard
aka Mr Magoo

Fuck the Yanks. They thought they could piss on everyone and get away with it. Well now let em suffer, the cunts. the more dead GIs turn up of the doorsteps of "Middle America", the more chance that fuckin dufus Bush will get booted from office.

Max, I love you and want to have your baby! - EVA

So much for freedom of speech

How dense are US voters? Slick Willy got into strife for lying about doing an Arnie with Monica, but Dumbya Bush lied about the urgent need to attack Saddam Hussein, and the moron is still sitting there in the Oval orifice, virtually intact... and, folks, people got killed, are getting killed, and will continue to be killed because of Dumbya's lies... Hey, reality check Yanks! (Oh, I keep forgetting, Arnie got elected Governer on the basis of his... movies???)

I'd love to interject but my missus won't allow it!
- Dusty Davo from Derrimut

actually i was wrong.
lower turnout than the original election for Gov davis it seems.

And there I was thinking the porno queen would win by a nose... or something. Oh well, its IS california, and they ARE yanks, after all! Sort of explains Iraq, don't it though!

Democracy or Demagogy?

well, i thought there might be an article in it somewhere but missus told me there was no wine left halfway into the second paragraph and it went downhill from there; the theory is that I make more sense when I am unaware of what i and doing

In all honesty, despite all of the millions they spend on producing comedies, this is one of the funniest things that has come out of California, way funnier than Ronald Reagan even; it is proof that those Californians have a great sense of humour!

Well y'know its a democracy!
The people vote for who they want. It was a record turnout I hear.
No big deal!

Isn't there a Dostoevsky quote here somewhere about why people get angry?

i dont get it this site sux

Patriot, when did you become "Angry"? and WHY? Is it coz your flakey Yank mates can't find any WMD in Iraq?!

The catholic church power brokers keen to keep him in power for as long as possible. Can't have a bloke who can make global decisions and shake ups. In the catholic church the popes word is seen as speaking directly for God, his decrees and decisions must be observed as infallible. That is why it is better to have a dribbling, mumbling guy in a coma as head guy; can't interfere with business...

Tom

heh heh heh the fucken pope is gasping his last fucken mouthful of bullshit may he burn in the hell he believes in the fucken mad old prick

Scusate me! Forgot to add this lovely link to an interview with the author of "Bushwhacked" for you, "Patriot": http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/07/10_ivins.html

Patriot, you obviously aren't... a patriot, that is. Unless you happen to be an ignorant, parochial, navel-gazing, anal-retentive fool! In which case, I am happy to enlighten you with a reading recommendation. I'm assuming, of course, that you CAN (and do!) read.

Pull Old Glory from your face and try this: "Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America", by Molly Ivins (written with Lou Dubose).

To quote Random House, Molly's publisher: 'Bushwhacked' brings to light the horrendous legacy of the Bush tax cut, his increasingly appalling environmental record, his administration's involvement in the Enron scandal, and the real Bush foreign policy—botched nation building in Kabul and Baghdad, alienation of former allies—and, unfortunately, much more. Ivins and Dubose go beyond the too frequently soft media coverage of Bush to show us just how damaging his policies have been to ordinary Americans."

And to quote Molly herself: "It's not stupidity as much as ignorance, and his inability and unwillingness to learn. He's not very curious. And it's not a first-rate mind. I mean, you get him to a certain point in a discussion, and if you ever hear him talk about 'my instinct' or 'my gut tells me,' then you know we're in trouble. Then you know we have left the realm of facts and logic and where we're going is something else altogether."

Hence, the Iraq calamity. Enjoy, "Patriot"!

Eward Said, in memorium. One of few intelligent voices in the USA on Middle Eastern discourse and US foreign policy in general, now silenced. His eloquent and eminently sensible writings, however, will continue to be read, long after the insane rantings of the Bush cabal disappear down the toilet of history.

True colors, Patsy?

Hey, go ahead, Bush baby, attack North Korea, I dares ya! I double dares ya! Bring it on, you fuckin moron!

Gays? Oy vay! You said GAYS!? I'm telling Cardinel PELL!

Ezsqueeze me? Did you say "US legitimacy"? The lying bastards never had it in the first place! What's more, its an oxymoron: like "US intelligence"! Let the pricks sink in the sand and in all that oil they lust after! Fuckem! They came, they saw, they fucked up big-time! Let Iraq bleed the US dry!