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Harsh world out there, by George (but Americans choose America's president)
The Australian ^ | September 26, 2004 | Gerard Baker

Posted on 09/26/2004 9:13:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 09/26/2004 9:13:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Good one, CW! Nothing like a little sarcasm and ridicule to put things into perspective!

(Glad to see you're still posting; it's been a while since we've chatted.)


2 posted on 09/26/2004 9:17:52 AM PDT by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Grant this guy American citizenship now! He passes the sanity test!


3 posted on 09/26/2004 9:18:41 AM PDT by Shery (S. H. in APOland)
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Hi lancer.

We've got ourselves a real president in George W. Bush!


4 posted on 09/26/2004 9:20:04 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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" instead we would have had 16 years of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale" Oh my God, imagine that nightmare ..Ohhh brother , I can't even stay on that though for too long .


5 posted on 09/26/2004 9:21:16 AM PDT by omstrat (zip code)
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...we would have had 16 years of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale...

That presumes that the USSR(remember them?) would not have moved aggressively to exploit American weakness.

That is a typically naive liberal delusion.

6 posted on 09/26/2004 9:22:39 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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And he speaks for a lot of people around the world who see what is at stake and who know America is right to push for democracy in and around the Middle East. People who look at a map can see what is happening.

Israel

Afghanistan

Iraq

Pakistan

India

Lybia


7 posted on 09/26/2004 9:23:26 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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The world is against Bush because Bush is forcing the world to own up to the problems facing it.

Europe has never had any guts for anything but developing perverted forms of goverment such as communism, nazism, facisim. I mean if European rulers can't get rich or powerful off of it then they are not interested.

John


8 posted on 09/26/2004 9:23:34 AM PDT by John_7Diamonds
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Beheadings are ghastly acts but real Americans arent frightened by them ,they are more determined to dispose of those commiting the act.

America is not like Spain , If we get a train blown up here we want to take the fight to those who blew it up.Not make a deal with them.

A terrorist incident in this country before the election wil not help the fawning,Kiss butt Kerry. We all hope it doesnt come ,but if it does we will choose a man that will and has taken the fight to the terrorists George Bush.


9 posted on 09/26/2004 9:23:42 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What a great article! We all need to acquire Foster's Lager by the case, buy Ugg boots by the truckload, and patronize any movies or TV shows which feature Nicole Kidman, Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Paul Hogan, and any other Aussie actors we can think of.

As someone pointed out in another thread, only the Aussies have stood with us in every conflict since WWII.


10 posted on 09/26/2004 9:24:19 AM PDT by macbee ("Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: headsonpikes
...That presumes that the USSR(remember them?)

Seeing as Putin is reverting back to his old KGB days, isn't it about time for him to change back to the country's old name?

11 posted on 09/26/2004 9:25:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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but don't you think this is a huge indictment for where the rest of the world is AT? they are either incredibly jealous or have been brainwashed into co-dependency -- having no limits, no boundaries on what they they will fight for... or...it could be that whomever wrote the original "hit piece" and did the survey....hates the US so much, it wasn't tough to find the tallly they desired.


12 posted on 09/26/2004 9:26:13 AM PDT by applpie
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Great find! Clear thinkers are scarce, especially abroad.Love the way he uses that pesky logic to refute the arrogant and effete Euros and their adherents.


13 posted on 09/26/2004 9:27:47 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Let US commanders run the war on terror in iraq,)
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There are still countries that 'get it.'

The non-EU minds of Britain.

Most of Australia.

Poland.

Perhaps, as they are hit by terrorism themselves, certain others may begin to more completely 'get it.'

India.

Russia.

14 posted on 09/26/2004 9:28:59 AM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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We all need to acquire Foster's Lager by the case...

Please don't get carried away. The writer is the exception even in somewhat-friendly-to America Australia.

15 posted on 09/26/2004 9:30:33 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Let US commanders run the war on terror in iraq,)
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16 posted on 09/26/2004 9:30:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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If only the Americans had the benefits of the clear-eyed perspicacity and guts of, say, the famously independent-minded French, German or Russian press,

Heh, heh. I wonder if Baker has a reputation as the Mark Steyn of the Southern Hemisphere.

17 posted on 09/26/2004 9:31:21 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>disingenuous filmmaker</A>)
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To: macbee
only the Aussies have stood with us in every conflict since WWII.

Not quite accurate.

The Aussies are the only people who have been with us in EVERY war in the LAST 100 YEARS!

18 posted on 09/26/2004 9:33:09 AM PDT by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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To: atomicpossum
Most of Australia.

Polls consistently show the majority (over 50%) of Aussies are opposed to US/Bush policies, and especially the war in Iraq.

19 posted on 09/26/2004 9:33:21 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Let US commanders run the war on terror in iraq,)
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To: applpie

The MSM can always find the answers they want.

CBS's campaign to get Kerry elected has put a chill on their reach and ability to suck people into America bashing.


20 posted on 09/26/2004 9:34:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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