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2005-09-19 Down Under

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Posted by Steve White 2005-09-19 00:03|| || Front Page|| [11124 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Tim Blair has lots more.

Posted by phil_b 2005-09-19 00:34|| 2005-09-19 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Look at New Zealand. They can't protect themselves. They rely on Australia who relies on America.

So by proxy they rely on America to protect them.

Way to go Loser Latham.

But I take comfort: the Australian electorate LOVES the US-Australian alliance so much that Latham at least knew he HAD to lie.

Snake.

Meanwhile how racist is he to call it the last vestige of White Australia. As if all Americans are white.

Besides which, it has NOTHING to do with race and EVERYTHING to do with culture.

Oh dear, does he not notice how people all around the world fracture along lines of culture and language? And we should be some global people without allies culture and language? We should pretend the rest of the world thinks just like Latham and rest our security on alliances with cultures with whom we share nothing in common and do not share a language?

Imagine us basing our security on an alliance with Indonesia... most expansionist racist supremecist colonists in the region. We are marked as 'south irian' on maps captured in the East Timor peacekeeping operation.

We are SOOO lucky Aussies were smart enough to throw red Latham out so convincingly at the last election!

Posted by anon1 2005-09-19 00:53|| 2005-09-19 00:53|| Front Page Top

#3 If he thinks Australia is safe from Indonesia or China by it's self he crazy. New Zeland has nothing anyone wants, this is not true of Australia. A Australia emptied of "white people" would be an attractive thing to certain peoples.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-19 02:53|| 2005-09-19 02:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Does anyone think Latham's opinions are all that unusual in the ALP?

Or in ANY of the left parties, from Blair's Labour to America's Democrats?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-19 07:32|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-19 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 The ALP is schizophrenic on the US alliance and this is one of the biggest problems they have.

Posted by phil_b 2005-09-19 07:49|| 2005-09-19 07:49|| Front Page Top

#6 New Zeland has nothing anyone wants

I understand many al-Q find sheep very attractive.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-19 08:34|| 2005-09-19 08:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Definitely follow Phil_b's advice and check out Tim Blair.

Even other ALP folks are saying that they're glad Howard beat Latham. They finally realize that Latham was lying through his teeth and that Oz dodged a major bullet.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-09-19 08:54|| 2005-09-19 08:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Mark Latham hates White Australians!

Posted by Kanye West 2005-09-19 10:15|| 2005-09-19 10:15|| Front Page Top

#9 What, the ALP produced a psycho candidate? Color me shocked.

The whole damn party's psychotic.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-09-19 11:11|| 2005-09-19 11:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Is the world getting crazier? WTF is going on with these people. There's some kind of sinister propoganda machine working in the background. All these so called pacifist are really sending out messages of hate and division, not healing and team work. I just call them hypocrits, but something else is at work, just like the Soviet moles in India and the UN Oil-4-Food scandel, people are being bought or brainwashed, but we won't know for years.

Posted by Elmeatle Crush5967 2005-09-19 12:22|| 2005-09-19 12:22|| Front Page Top

#11

"the Americans need us more than we need them"

Posted by Elmeatle Crush5967 2005-09-19 12:24|| 2005-09-19 12:24|| Front Page Top

#12

"I detest war and the meatheads who volunteer to kill other human beings."

Yeah, but we're not the only ones with Armies, dumbass.

Posted by Elmeatle Crush5967 2005-09-19 12:26|| 2005-09-19 12:26|| Front Page Top

#13 "south Irian"? What the heck???

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-09-19 14:30|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-09-19 14:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Okay my history is rusty in this point, but who exactly pulled who into the East Timor operation? Somehow I thought the Australians pulled the US into that one.

And it was East Timor that Al Queda has sited as their rational for attacking Australia wasn't it? I mean hate America all you want, who cares, but at least keep your facts straight.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-09-19 14:37|| 2005-09-19 14:37|| Front Page Top

#15 My opinion of Aussies, already high, just went up another notch. They saw through this asshat.

Thumbs up.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2005-09-19 17:02|| 2005-09-19 17:02|| Front Page Top

#16 Bit of geography/history: West Irian was the Indonesian name for Dutch New Guinea, which Indonesia took over by force in 1961. Dutch New Guinea is the western end of the island of New Guinea. The eastern end is the nation of Papua New Guinea. The Indonesians have been trying to convert the Papuans to Islam by force since 1961, with poor success. The entire western end of New Guinea is a human right abuse.

Indonesia wants to grab all of south Asia, including Australia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. They are the major supporter of Abu Sayyaf and other Muslim bandits in the Philippines. Their massacre of Timorese Christians is what they want to do to the entire region.

IIRC, the East Timor rescue operation was primarily an Australian action, with limited US back-up. I don't think we hand any troops on the ground in the region. If anyone has any further comments, I'd welcome them.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-09-19 18:06|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-19 18:06|| Front Page Top

#17 That face... he looks like Admiral Ackbar.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-09-19 18:30|| 2005-09-19 18:30|| Front Page Top

#18 Ok, I'm confused. (Stop that snickering!) Did the Latham Diaries escape, or were they deliberately released?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-19 19:43|| 2005-09-19 19:43|| Front Page Top

#19 It's his memoirs that he has published.

Posted by ed 2005-09-19 20:30|| 2005-09-19 20:30|| Front Page Top

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