The End Of The Beginning Of The End Of John Howard II
March 17th 2007 05:18
Okay then, why don't we get down to it boppers. Like I said yesterday, it's a long list, so I'll try and give everything a good amount of time, but this could consume a few posts.
AWB.
Now let us get one thing straight. We have been trading off on this Saddam Hussein - Bad; Australia - Righteous thing for some time now. For fear of treading on the toes of another paragraph to come, how did it come to this that under the nose of a fumbling Government, that the Australian Wheat Board, I believe the monopolists in the wheat trade, come to be funneling around $300 million's worth of bribes to Saddam Hussein's regime? Now it's a crazy world, bad things happen, I bet no one at the AWB liked the fact that Hussein, now cold in the grave and warmed up in Hell, was killing his own and ran Iraq like a poor man's HItler, but y'know, a deal's a deal. Can AWB really be so snide and duplicitous to think that they could get away with such a thing while information was being presented to Government Ministers, but somehow not being given any attention whatsoever. So what we had was a guilty AWB, a teflon Government and a transparent rort. Well done all round. Noses weren't exactly clean in the end, but the scandal did the disappearing act and we all returned to whatever celebrity scandal had to offer instead.
The Iraq War.
Now this, we all know, is a big one. There has been a fairly open sycophancy towards whatever edict comes out of the White House since Howard moved into Yarralumla. There's nothing he likes more, than to make the US of A our best friend and do whatever they require of us, it has happened with Kyoto, it happened with the war. It's sickening that Howard can't stand alone and feels the need to be tugging at George W. Bush's apron, but be that as it may, it was a lie WE went to war on. Where were the WMDs? Not there. Nothing of any consequence was found on Iraqi soil that even remotely posed a threat to our glorious Western way of life, but we went anyway, hyping up this fear that it was preventing terrorism spread when terrorism merely took root in Iraq instead and more of their own got murdered. Sound fair? We prevent terrorism from spreading to us while we let it tear YOU to pieces. Four years. Four long years of back pedalling, deceit and propping up a feeble argument for the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Afghanistan is yet to be completely secure too, how much longer before a shaky democracy in Iraq takes root and becomes stable enough to run a peaceful country. Don't hold your breath.
The Baby Bonus.
This is a little favourite of mine. It seems innocuous enough, but to my mind it seems like a bare-faced move to bribe people into having babies and get votes on the back of it. In an overpopulated world, we really don't want to be encouraging more people to spawn, we want to maybe just give them pause for thought and possibly contemplate one, maybe two little ones at best. It's like saying you'll pay someone $1000 to play cricket just to get a better Australian team. So any old time we want to win over some folks, why don't we just offer them money. If we want to convert people to a particular religion, we can buy them instead. Oh, Howard kind of tried that by throwing an imaginary $90 million at schools for religious instruction. Well, it's not quite the same, but you get the picture. It has been the bread and butter of our current affairs shows, exposing people for having children just for the money. A little incentive to get off the pill or not use condoms. 'Well honey, $1000 is good foreplay in anyone's language'. As some wit once said, 'Sex, I think it's here to stay' and at these prices, who's surprised.
Fondly yours,
Michael.
AWB.
Now let us get one thing straight. We have been trading off on this Saddam Hussein - Bad; Australia - Righteous thing for some time now. For fear of treading on the toes of another paragraph to come, how did it come to this that under the nose of a fumbling Government, that the Australian Wheat Board, I believe the monopolists in the wheat trade, come to be funneling around $300 million's worth of bribes to Saddam Hussein's regime? Now it's a crazy world, bad things happen, I bet no one at the AWB liked the fact that Hussein, now cold in the grave and warmed up in Hell, was killing his own and ran Iraq like a poor man's HItler, but y'know, a deal's a deal. Can AWB really be so snide and duplicitous to think that they could get away with such a thing while information was being presented to Government Ministers, but somehow not being given any attention whatsoever. So what we had was a guilty AWB, a teflon Government and a transparent rort. Well done all round. Noses weren't exactly clean in the end, but the scandal did the disappearing act and we all returned to whatever celebrity scandal had to offer instead.
The Iraq War.
Now this, we all know, is a big one. There has been a fairly open sycophancy towards whatever edict comes out of the White House since Howard moved into Yarralumla. There's nothing he likes more, than to make the US of A our best friend and do whatever they require of us, it has happened with Kyoto, it happened with the war. It's sickening that Howard can't stand alone and feels the need to be tugging at George W. Bush's apron, but be that as it may, it was a lie WE went to war on. Where were the WMDs? Not there. Nothing of any consequence was found on Iraqi soil that even remotely posed a threat to our glorious Western way of life, but we went anyway, hyping up this fear that it was preventing terrorism spread when terrorism merely took root in Iraq instead and more of their own got murdered. Sound fair? We prevent terrorism from spreading to us while we let it tear YOU to pieces. Four years. Four long years of back pedalling, deceit and propping up a feeble argument for the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Afghanistan is yet to be completely secure too, how much longer before a shaky democracy in Iraq takes root and becomes stable enough to run a peaceful country. Don't hold your breath.
The Baby Bonus.
This is a little favourite of mine. It seems innocuous enough, but to my mind it seems like a bare-faced move to bribe people into having babies and get votes on the back of it. In an overpopulated world, we really don't want to be encouraging more people to spawn, we want to maybe just give them pause for thought and possibly contemplate one, maybe two little ones at best. It's like saying you'll pay someone $1000 to play cricket just to get a better Australian team. So any old time we want to win over some folks, why don't we just offer them money. If we want to convert people to a particular religion, we can buy them instead. Oh, Howard kind of tried that by throwing an imaginary $90 million at schools for religious instruction. Well, it's not quite the same, but you get the picture. It has been the bread and butter of our current affairs shows, exposing people for having children just for the money. A little incentive to get off the pill or not use condoms. 'Well honey, $1000 is good foreplay in anyone's language'. As some wit once said, 'Sex, I think it's here to stay' and at these prices, who's surprised.
Fondly yours,
Michael.
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You might want to check out my views on whether John Howard sold us out
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