[AdvisorB]

If my memory serves me right, that nasty leftist, Mr.Keating, the former Aussie shadow PM was constantly attacking President Bush, and no one in Australia was saying that Keating's verbal brickbats (leftist lies) would jeopardize US-Australian relations.

Mr.Howard is spot on. The election of Osama Hussein Obama would embolden the terrorists, and would be met with jubilation by alQaeda fanatics.

[naturalman1975]

Part of Howard's statement in Parliament yesterday.

Apparently it is in order for any number of people in the Labor Party to regularly attack George Bush, to regularly attack the American administration. That is OK, but dare anybody criticise somebody who might agree with them on Iraq and then somehow or other I am interfering in the domestic politics of the United States.