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Originally posted by AlwaysLearning
Oh...Berlusconi must have sh*t his pants when Bushy wouldn't take his explanatory phone call. God forbid he suffer the wrath of the Bushy cold shoulder treatment..
Originally posted by Warpspeed
This is all being done to prevent the CIA from killing more Australian civilians. The Americans I know living here in Australia are all fine people, but American foreign policy is really starting to get up the noses of most Australians. Please try to understand this, It is not a hate America campaign. I am just trying to express what I and the majority of Australians think of Bush and his phony dishonest illegal war.
Originally posted by AlwaysLearning
Originally posted by cargo
I have not met one person here since the Iraq war began that supports it. Not one, and that is no exaggeration. This might sound harsh, but Australians generally respond to your thankyou with "You're not welcome". *shrugs*
Help me to understand, Cargo...if Australian support is SO very unpopular, before, during and since, how is it that John Howard got re-elected? With a majority, no less? Do they use the same voting machines in Austrialia that they use in the U.S.? Heheheheheh...
As a comparison, in Canada the Liberals lost their majority government over a spending scandale to do with the last Quebec referendum on separation....
Howard went to the election with an untestable thesis that the Coalition would keep rates lower than the ALP. It was a brutally effective political line which leaves the Coalition vulnerable to rate rises.
Householders, you'd think, will cop one small rise in their mortgage payments. Only a fool doesn't understand rates rise as well as fall. Tuesday's 0.25 per cent hike has been anticipated for several months.
But another interest rate rise so soon after the election could be politically devastating. Little wonder Howard and Costello have spent the week unsubtly advising the Reserve Bank of the reasons rates should rise no higher.
Excerpts from the ANZUS Treaty
Article I
The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international disputes in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.Article IV
Each Party recognizes that an armed attack in the Pacific Area on any of the Parties would be dangerous to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes.Article IV
For the purpose of Article IV, an armed attack on any of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack on the metropolitan territory of any of the Parties, or on the island territories under its jurisdiction in the Pacific or on its armed forces, public vessels or aircraft in the Pacific.END OF EXCERPT
Originally posted by Warpspeed
The fact remains though, that one country after another is now abandoning America in Iraq. This time it is Italy. Who will be next ?
America is headed down the road to ruin. If that is what you want, then go for it.
Originally posted by wang
By the way the australian SAS are called the most versatile special forces in the world.
Originally posted by wecomeinpeace
We Aussies, like many Americans, don't want a bar of it, but we are powerless to stop the actions of our government.