Election stunts everywhere
PM’s letter to Iraq is an election stunt says Kevin Rudd in an election stunt type of statement
PRIME Minister John Howard’s threat to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq is motivated by the looming federal election, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd saysAnd Kevin’s statement isn’t? Right. Meanwhile…..a story covered by Brisbane’s Sunday Mail records another election stunt
A LEAKED letter from Kevin Rudd to Prime Minister John Howard shows the Opposition Leader backed Australia’s involvement in Iraq in the aftermath of the invasion.And typical of Kevin, it’s full of recommendations that apparently no one else thought of These include:
• “An immediate review of protective security arrangements for all Australian staff in Iraq”. • “Deploying an appropriate number of trainers for capacity enhancement of the New Iraqi Army and the Iraqi Police Force.” • Public employment measures to soak up the idleness of young men from joining terrorist groups. • Using the Australian Electoral Commission to help Iraq stage elections. • A smooth transition of the Oil for Food program to ensure Iraqis had proper food and medical supplies. All of these measures were eventually adopted.Admittedly Kevin has to calm and pay back the Left in his party with regular anti Bush/Howard/US policy statements but just what do Kevin and the ALP stand for again?
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Another instance which tends to prove Rudd the Dud shouldn’t be called “Kevin07” but perhaps “Big Chief Two-Face”.
One thing about Rudd constantly amuses me: He continually refers to John Howard as the “smartest” and “cleverest” politician since WWII. I have never heard him add anything such as, “… but the Labor Party has brilliant minds his equal any day”.
Perhaps Rudd secretly concedes that Howard IS by far the best politician for decades, which by extension means he deserves to be re-elected!
Hi Kevin
Long while since I posted here.
Was interested in your story. I have been giving lots of thought to my Paternal Grandfather who died in 1914 when my father was but 3 years of age.
He was serving on HMS HAWKE in October 1914, he was a stoker when his ship had the misfortune to be the first Ship to be torpedoed by a German U- boat, he was 38 and left a wife and 5 young children who had a miserable life of neglect and eventually sent to a naval orphanage, his mother unable to cope- no support in those days/ We do not realise how very fortunate we are today.
No one talked much of it when I was a child, I suppose suffering through 2 world wars and a depression people’s minds were focused on trying to improve there circumstances and not dwell on the past.
My Great Grandparents on Mums side lost 8 out of eleven sons in World war 1- such a terrible loss in one family.
My Mothers Uncle suffered all his life from the effects of mustard gas and after capture by the Germans and sent to do hard labour in the Salt Mines -he said Siberia but I feel it might have been Silesia.
During his time as a prisoner along with about 220 other British prisoners
they experimented on him by injecting the whole of his left body and limbs with bacteria that rotted the flesh from his bones and practised the first skin grafting ever performed. He was asked to be a teaching aid to Medical Students at St Mary’s London for the rest of his life, as the skin grafts were amazingly successful. All this done without any anaesthetics.
Of all the 220 taken prisoner only 12 survived and each received a hand written note from King George V.
My poor old great uncle suffered with his damaged lungs for the rest of his life. He suffered doubly as his only son age 19 was lost over Nova Scotia bringing bomber planes back from Canada, they carried only sufficient fuel for a direct route and if blown off course never made it home.
I have been thinking much of them of late, with great sadness. I met my great uncle for the first time purely by chance when I was nursing at a London Hospital on Night duty and admitted him in severe respiratory distress.
No one in the family had seen him for years as he and his wife never got over the loss of their son and became very reclusive. They seemed very delighted to learn I was their niece’s daughter and I think it gave them some comfort to have me visit until he died.
OT Kevin I appreciated the link to the WA biographical info of well known citizens.
My computer crashed and I lost all links, could you please reprint it.
My Husbands family are from WA from Albany, Kattanning and Kojanup.
I have never been able to get over but hope soon to rectify that soon.
By Father’s Grandfather went on an expedition in the late 1800s which lasted over 2 years-he was the medical officer for the team and has a Mount named after him .
Cheers Rose
Hi Jim Riley,
Do you think Howard is as good a politician as Hitler was? If so I should definitely voted for him.
Chris. Hitler was a politician that took his country to the brink of utter destruction. What exactly is the correlation with Howard? Are you equating Nazism with centrist conservative policies?
Or are you as actually as stupid as you read?
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