New Australian PM signals Iraq pullout

Timesonline Via Drudge Report ^ | Nov 24, 2007 | Paul Ham

[neodad]

The yutes of Sydney must be happy.

[camerakid400]

I’m sure it will appease the angry Muslims in Australia.

Or, not:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22663795-601,00.html

[Williams]

How is 53% to 47% a “landslide victory”?

[farlander]

I was just wondering that myself... sure sounds like a ‘mandate’ of some kind. /sarc

[neodad]

At the Independent Centre of Research Australia, he runs anger-management programs and has opened a prayer room run by Sheik Mallah

Wonder how that's working for him?

[sinanju]

Think of the Clintons and their crew taking the reins in ‘92, only even more “in-’yo’-face.”

Peter Garrett, the ex-Midnight Oil rocker is now going to be his Enviro Minister.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[cripplecreek]

Not that the Aussie troops aren’t appreciated but how many are in Iraq?

[doc1019]

Not being a follower of Australian politics … what, exactly, was the reason for the downfall of the Howard government?

[Gay State Conservative]

Sounds like this guy just might be a worthless punk in the Kusinich mold.

[SandRat]

But the Diggers aren’t.

[rockrr]

Buy more guns and keep your powder dry...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

About 500, I think. Not signifigant in themselves, bur symbolically important as an indicator of Australian alliance.

[LegendHasIt]

I weep for Australia.

After a decade or so of flirting with every PC / liberal idea that the left could think of, they were back on the track to being the small yet great nation of rugged individualists with common sense and courage.

And now they are back to being sheep instead of raising them.

[RDTF]

that just made me think of Mike and the Mechanics

[cripplecreek]

Sounds like we would have been better off if Howard himself had pulled the troops. At least he could have pulled them and said that they were no longer needed in Iraq.

[stevem]

Good luck on that Kyoto thing.

[the invisib1e hand]

i guess this is news. it’s certainly not a surprise.

[george76]

Rudd plans to bring home most Australian troops from Iraq and Afghanistan

[DTogo]

...announcing the withdrawal of his country’s combat troops from Iraq and signing the Kyoto treaty on climate change.

And what about that major Australian export: coal??

HA!