Israel lashes out at Hezbollah

George Bush gets caught out adlibbing (or does he?) about this weeks Middle East drama and says to Blair;

What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over.

That about says it all. Over at Tim Dunlops ‘Road to Surfdom‘ my favourite delussional zealot Aussie Bob attacks the government in Tim’s daily ‘Howard Lied’ post.

25,000 Australian citizens trapped there – let’s say it’s just 10% of those who want to get out, that’s still 2,500 – and our government is thinking of hiring three buses? … while at the same time they’re egging Israel on?

The government actually sent the three buses to accomodate the Sydney Armenian Dance company specifically and in last nights news Downer was talking about a ship for any others but don’t let the facts ruin a good rant Bob.

As Israel intensified its military onslaught with a cross-border ground attack in southern Lebanon, 86 members of the Western Sydney Armenian dance ensemble were taken in three buses to a northern border crossing, escorted by the Australian Federal Police’s liaison officer, Richard Stanford.

Australian officials estimated yesterday that at least 25,000 Australian citizens were in the country, of which 23,000 hold Lebanese citizenship. Many of the dual citizens are staying in the north, which has been relatively unaffected by the six-day conflict. What’s going on here? All of these people call Australia home, don’t they? They all came to Australia, worked hard over their lives and paid taxes, didn’t they? They are all now enjoying the fruit of their labours on a holiday, aren’t they? They didn’t come to Australia, sign up for the dole and then went back home laughing at us, did they? I’m pretty sure I got that right. Did I?