THE WORDS OF JERICHO

These are the kinds of friends America needs:

My name is Michael Jericho, and I'm an Australian Special Forces veteran of East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq. I'm also the founder of a group blog, comprised of Australians and American contributors, named A Western Heart.

As I'm sure you're aware, tomorrow (our time) is the Australian national election. On its outcome hinges the fate of Australia's place in the Coalition of the Willing. Like the American election, the polls are close, and I cannot confidently predict which way it shall go.

In view of this, I would like to humbly submit to you an article that I wrote. It is my small attempt to explain the situation to our American friends and allies, and offer an apology (in advance) of a possible win by the leftist party, under renowned anti-American, Mark Latham: "Count on us today, but the day after tomorrow?"

I sincerely thank you for taking the time to read this.

We need all the friends we can get, and we need to keep the friends we have, including Prime Minister Howard.

The 88 Australians that died in the Bali Bombing, and the ten Australians that forever vanished amid the rubble of the World Trade Center cry out to us, and plead with us not to abandon them, to not forget them, or the lesson their deaths impart. The war on the murderers that killed a hundred children in Beslan, and thousands of our American cousins on September 11 cannot be simply walked away from. This is our fight, as much as anyone else's.

So it is with a heavy heart that I say to all our American, British, Polish and Italian friends, if Mark Latham and his party of isolationism should win tomorrow, bid us farewell, and try not to resent us our folly. Remember us for how we were, and not for how we've allowed ourselves to become.

For there are old Australians amid the new, and I swear to you, our time shall come again

http://mikejericho.blogspot.com/2004/10/co...-day-after.html

Careful with the loaded questions there BM. If I was an Ozzie I might vote for Latham just to p*ss you off.

My two cents.

What ever the Australians decided will be best for them...It's their country, their election and their right to bugger out or stay as they see fit.

Beeehhhhr!

The U.S. never had any "friends", only interests.

It looks like a 3.6% swing to John Howard!

SYDNEY, Australia - Prime Minister John Howard scored a stunning victory in Australia's federal election today in a vote ensuring the country keeps its troops in Iraq.

Labor Party leader Mark Latham conceded defeat in a speech to his supporters in western Sydney, saying he called Howard to congratulate him on his fourth straight election victory.

``Tonight was not our night,'' Latham said.

The election was widely seen abroad as the first referendum for the three leaders who launched the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, with President Bush facing a ballot next month and British Prime Minister Tony Blair probably facing voters next year.

The Labor Party had vowed to bring the approximate 900 Australian troops deployed in and around Iraq home by Christmas, while Howard insisted they will stay until Iraqis ask them to leave

Good news or what!

Australian election results in decisive win for John Howard

You ###### well better consier us friends, or we'll take our 12,000 brave troops home! The cheek of it!

Don't get too cocky. John Howard was in charge of an economy that was doing very well. Quite the opposite of the situation in the US of A.

Hmmm.. Cocky...meaning to count ones eggs before they hatch... Think not,

I do appreciate the courage of people in the UK and other nations who stood up and made their voice heard against this unlawful war, inspite of being threatened and bullied, namecalled, misunderstood and accused of the usual - being naive, unrealistic, unpatriotic, loony liberal, subversive commie, terrorist sympathizer, and hypocritical.
Do you really believe folks who disagree with cutting civil liberties to the bone, going to war without sound reason, being bullied along to sing the song, are ready to turn the other cheek when the predicted polarisation and escalation happens?
It is fine to say we can all have a civilised debate, while YOUR politics are being implemented further. 'Liberals' are not supposed to agree with any violence nor injury, while the other side is proud of doing so?

Painting Swastikas in neo-cons gardens and on their cars is right down my way, I'd drop some Nazi propaganda with it, so they may read up in which political neighbourhod they dwell. How many more beheadings before you pull out? I'd do the same if an overpowering enemy killed my daughter and raped my wife.

Am I the baitee or the baitor in this one?

John Howard’s wonderful Australian victory:

John Howard’s stunning victory over the forces of appeasement and schtoopidity in Australia. That faint whining you hear from the southern hemisphere is the sound of thousands of terminally depressed Aussie moonbats.

The really horrifying thing about Howard’s victory for Labor is that it proves that packaging and spin are ultimately dead ends. It is a cul-de-sac lined with klieg lights and celebrity occasions, but there is no exit all the same because it is the platform of the Labor party that is rotten. The hodge-podge of wacky environmentalists, professional victims, special sexual pleaders etc. have laid a dead hand on attempts to regard any issue, like the War on Terror, with anything approaching common sense. How else to explain why Labor should offer a country of 20 million people, living in close proximity to Indonesia, the chance to downgrade their alliance with the United States.

If the Left were thinking clearly, it would realize that the single most striking aspect of George W. Bush is how ordinary he is. There is nothing in his strategy to combat terrorism beyond a refined common sense. He represents a threat to Liberalism for precisely the reason that an everyman reacting to an extraordinary historical challenge imperils kings and hereditary elites: the prospect he may discover by success in action that royalty with its cant and obscurantism is no better than he.

Let’s welcome back on to the world stage the man deemed intellectually inferior to all his Labor opponents; a person said to be singularly lacking in refinement and bereft of nuance. The man who for nearly ten years beat them all and has won another term. Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

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