RSS feedIf you put aside the apparently significant work of our (Australian) special forces troops in Iraq, we’re still this fairly insignificant sparsely populated island at the edge of the Pacific ocean, dying to look like we’re of significant importance to the U.S. Perhaps the fact that we’re English speaking, we have our own Australian Idol (where we, like everywhere else, manufacture talent so they can regurgitate other songs written by talented song writers), and John Howard wants to make us a staunchly conservative Christian nation, makes us more than a slight blip on U.S. Inc’s RADAR. It’s all about trade of course, but I’m happy to continue the facade that we actually care about democracy in Iraq, for the sake of argument.
Anyway, you have to smile when G.W. spends time with John Howard, moaning about Mark Latham, which is a bit of a change from John Howard moaning for G.W. The SMH calls Bush’s words a “strong condemnation” of Latham, but more significantly, in a time when the U.S. should be spending more time trying to solve the Iraq problem (some would say it has a simple solution), it is amusing to think that Mark Latham, new Labor leader and yet to stake a real claim on anything locally, can get so much up G.W.’s goit.
Personally, anyone who can do that successfully, gets my vote at the next election.