Posted on 10/14/2002 8:21:58 PM PDT by Dundee
We Aussies are, at times, a strange lot.
In our happier times, the ethos of "work hard, play hard" almost becomes the national motto. The 2000 Sydney Olympics is a prime example. For a country of 19 million hosting the Olympics is no easy task. But tens of thousands worked tirelessly to make the games the best ever. The world saw us party, saw us enjoy the fruits of so much hard work. Likewise, many Aussies in Bali were there to enjoy the fruits of their hard work, sporting or otherwise. When we party, we party hard and loud.
But now, in our time of national mourning, the vast majority of Australians are silent.
Why?
The shrill voices of the left, the appeasers, the anti westerners are screaming that this was all our fault. Australia has joined America in its fight, a fight that they believe we should never have joined. This is what we deserved. We asked for it.
But the majority of Australians are silent. They are silent with rage and single minded focus. We do not yell and scream and call upon God to rain down vengence. We quietly roll up our sleaves and get to work. Our work now is to destroy those who would destroy us.
No flag waving, no rallies. Just silent rage and quiet action. Those who would destroy us will not hear the massive wave of rage they have unleashed. Our actions will speak for us.
Silent and deadly.
Come help us squash the Islamic hordes who wish to put us under their tyrannical thumb. Pay no attention to the peaceniks. We will save their asses as we always have and they will forget in the morning every sacrifice we make in this war and bleat their cowardly bleat.
We, however, will triumph. We have the nukes. We will not be denied.
The dogged determination of the Aussies in the worthless jungles of New Guinea made them think refocusing their attention from moving south to moving east (toward Midway) would be a more productive strategy.
May your western hating leftists and ours be given their own home in some vacant Solomon Island when this thing is over and Al Quaida is finally vanquished.
Look forward to your partnership in the fight against evil. The Aussies are indeed a tough lot, and always a reliable friend of the U.S.. Not many know this, but the Australians even fought with the U.S. in Vietnam.
Many sympathies for your loss. Sorry about the snide remarks posted above. Some Freepers have no concept of graciousness or timing.
Good!
I can only love a southern man.
That said, please know many of us in the USA know exactly how you feel.We will also stand beside you untill the job is done.Just as you have stood by us.We are in this together.
Prayers for your lost ones.Each of them matter to those of us who hold life above death.That is most of the civilised world.You are not alone.
But when I think about it, someone with a real grudge (like an ex-wife) used to dob you in to the Tax Department as payback. Now all they have to do is dob you in for a gun and you're away for years and your new family life is ruined. What a society. So don't talk guns at all, especially in new company.
(NSW)
now we REALY know how your countrymen & women must have felt on Sept. 11th... This bloody lot has shook us up down here I can tell you and has not done much to endear friendship thoughts with the Islamic/Muslim types.
Our news (and no doubt yours) as I look at CNN, FOX and others is certainly giving it coverage. We have (so far) about 14 confirmed dead but 210 Aussies missing and that does not look good at all, especially now so long after the event.
I just know that when our boys in the Gulf and those in Afganastan heard the news they would be in the "no prisoners" mood for sure...
Needless to say we are shocked, unsettled, in sad frame of mind, anxious, pissed off with the people responsible etc... To shed a quiet tear watching the horrible scenes and poor injured on telly plus the interviews of those both in Balanese hospital, those flown into Darwin, Perth hospitals ... not good ...
You can have no greater friend nor deadlier foe than Australia.
I believe it. God bless and protect you.
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