HOWARD JOINS COALITION OF THE DEFEATED
Like a malignant cancer, the Cheney/Bush administration has infected every country that has bought into its preemptive global neocon pipe dream ~ with its latest victim being Australian Prime Minister John Howard: Allen L Roland
Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts with the Cheney/Bush administration being our most obvious example.
The so called coalition of the willing in America's illegal preemptive attack and occupation of Iraq were actually all co-conspirators in what will eventually be judged as modern times greatest crime against humanity ~ with well over one million innocent Iraqis already killed.
The coalition's big four ~ England's Blair, Italy's Berlusconi, Spain's Jose Maria Azur and now Australia's John Howard have all been driven out of office by the people and soon this malignant cancer will be isolated in the White House with its original initiators Dick Cheney and George W Bush ~ who more than deserve to be immediately prosecuted as war criminals.
The Center for American Progress reports today on the latest victim of Cheney and Bush's shameful economic rape and destruction of Iraq.
Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/11/26.html
COALITION OF THE DEFEATED
by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, and Ali Frick / American Progress Report
Like Britain's Tony Blair, Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, and Spain's Jose Maria Aznar before him, John Howard suffered greatly from his decision to participate in Bush's "coalition of the willing." His full-throated support for the Iraq war hurt him domestically.
More than 60 percent of Australians want forces out of Iraq within a year, and Rudd pledged that Australian troops would leave by mid-2008 after consultations with the United States and the United Kingdom.
Analysts noted that Bush "was a little more isolated in the world Sunday" after the loss of his close Australian ally.
President Bush, who lauded the outgoing prime minister as a "man of steel," lost one of his "most steadfast allies" in Howard.
The Bush administration had sought to influence the Australian elections with press offensives declaring the Iraq escalation a success, hoping that the reports would bolster Howard's campaign.
For his part, Howard had interceded on Bush's behalf prior to the 2004 U.S. presidential elections, claiming a Bush reelection was needed in order to "stay and finish the job" in Iraq.
In February of this year, Howard inserted himself into U.S. domestic politics again by spouting this smear: "If I was running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008, and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for [Barack] Obama, but also for the Democrats."
In a 2003 speech delivered to the Australian parliament, Howard claimed history had proven wrong those critics of Bush who "assaulted his judgment, and called into question his ability to lead the U.S. in this very, very difficult conflict." History will instead deliver a very different message than the one Howard predicted.
Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/11/26.html
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