and speaking of media, what happened to the earlier post here on this?

From memory then: limited involvement in Iraq, excellently trained and equipped troops with first class commanders, no sordid little procurment scandals involving staff and supporters; no ambitions for Iraq oil - (Note how little media play those submissions to the Cheney energy task force are getting)

No involvement in Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a balanced budget (hoo boy); a managed trade politcy, an industrial policy, national health care -

F***, if Howard were here in the US, Rush would be blasting him every day on the radio as a flaming liberal.

In US terms, this is like Kerry beating Nader, and the "landslide" about which you speak so knowingly was something like 53% to 47%.

Oh yeah - I know what happened to the original post - it got "misplaced" so you could try to b*** s*** us about the Australian elections once again.

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