Surely we won’y be able to remain in ANZUS, not with Osama’s patsys running the show?

Were just gonna have to pull-out of the US alliance and find some new pals.

I have a few modest proposals for the PM to consider:

How about we cuddle-up to Serbia? On the positive side: They don’t like Osama and have certainly demonstrated the ticker to kill muslims, terrorist or otherwise, in very large numbers. On the negative: led by deranged psychopaths; don’t speak English. Perhaps the PM can convince them to sign-up on a mutual defence treaty and then join us in Iraq to fight the good fight after the US and Britain pull-out?

Or what about Fiji? On the positive side: They’re pretty good at coups and not averse to a good stoush now and again. They’ve got a strong leader who doesn’t have to worry about what the voters might think, having abolished parliament. Some of them used to be cannibals in the good old days, so mutual defence treaty and a Battalion or two of these blokes in Iraq could really chew-away at the terrorist power-base, if put to good use. On the negative side: wrong colour.

How about Isarel? On the positive side: Very good at fighting muslims and winning wars against them; Almost as good at pinching land as we were with the Aborigines. Close to the action and most of them speak English. On the negative: A long way-off and nobody likes them.

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=82065

Thank God we now get BOTH Jon Stewart and Colbert in Australia … albeit via the Comedy Channel on Foxtel.

I’m not pretending this is anything other than a very difficult situation but if I say this again, if America is defeated in Iraq, it will be a colossal blow to Western prestige and it will give an enormous boost to terrorism and to terrorists not only in the Middle East but in our part of the world and that will not be in Australia’s national interest. Where will we be in handling a difficulty with a country like North Korea if you have an enfeebled, humiliated United States?

Guess Washington wasn’t keeping the PM informed of how the talks with NK were going…

Pyongyang agrees to close nuclear reactor

http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Download/14368/2/Colbert-Dixie-Feith-Howard.mov

It’s not ROTFL, but humorous enough.

Youtube are taking down all the Daily Show and Colbert stuff because of Viacom’s demands.

Can you embed this Mark?

Spot on, Mark. If Team Ruddster have any nous at all, then they should pepper the vainglorious, warmongering and increasinly strident Howard, with this question and close variants of it, all the way to the election. This will focus voters in marginals with short attention spans on Howard’s Manichean mindlessness and nibble away at Johnny being perceived as strong on National Security.

In lockstep with The Imbecile, Howard slags considered debate about Coalition Forces withdrawing from Iraq as “cut and run”, refusing point-blank to consider a withdrawal timetable, thereby committing Australia to the insanity of “war without end”.

Howard once claimed;”I am not a zealot”. A substantial number of marginal seat voters, indeed, his own backbenchers, must surely be having serious doubts about Howard’s claim.

“Mr. Howard, are the Australian people who oppose your unquestioning committment to the Bush administration over the invasion and occupation of Iraq, all allies of Al Qaeda?”

“Do you consider these Australians in breach of your Sedition Laws?”

“Will agents of ASIO be sent to surveil, harass and arrest them?”