To: John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia
Dear Mr Howard,
You said something really silly and plainly wrong the other day during the celebration of your innumerable years in public life (thanks, for that, by the way - you've at least kept some true mongrels like Amanda Vanstone and Tony Abbott from fulfilling their larger aspirations)... Now, what was it...?
Oh, yes, that's right. You said that you had restored Australia to a posiiton of respect in the world, among such potent allies as the US and the UK. Wrong, Mr Prime Minister. Plain wrong. You might have attracted the tactical and disdainful applause of megalomaniacs who think God appointed them President of the "Free" World (while torturing Australian citizens along with so many others), but I can assure you that, here on the ground, among the majority of Americans who did NOT vote for Dubya, Australia's position of respect has slumped badly, in recent years. The majority wonder how it is that a country whose citizens opposed the Putsch into Iraq by a margin of 10 to 1 could have gone in, anyway. They wonder what kind of patsies their leaders are. That's the plain truth, John. I'm not kidding. Anyone here who has any sense of how the US megalomaniacs work thinks your people are taking it in the shorts.
But, carry on. The more your tactics of cluster bombing, depleted-uranium spraying, and wholesale torturing with top-level approval come to light, the sillier the Coalition of the Armtwisted is going to look. And whether or not complicit leaders are dispatched sooner, and longer, to the Opposition benches, they are going to have to live with their implication in a debased, hypocritical reign of terror.
Alas, we, your unheeded subjects, are going to pay for it with increased risk in their world, but you'll be sitting in some twilight home for disgraced pols, listening to the likes of John Laws blame someone else for your contributions to inviting terror attacks to our own shores.
Sincerely,
Dear Mr Howard,
You said something really silly and plainly wrong the other day during the celebration of your innumerable years in public life (thanks, for that, by the way - you've at least kept some true mongrels like Amanda Vanstone and Tony Abbott from fulfilling their larger aspirations)... Now, what was it...?
Oh, yes, that's right. You said that you had restored Australia to a posiiton of respect in the world, among such potent allies as the US and the UK. Wrong, Mr Prime Minister. Plain wrong. You might have attracted the tactical and disdainful applause of megalomaniacs who think God appointed them President of the "Free" World (while torturing Australian citizens along with so many others), but I can assure you that, here on the ground, among the majority of Americans who did NOT vote for Dubya, Australia's position of respect has slumped badly, in recent years. The majority wonder how it is that a country whose citizens opposed the Putsch into Iraq by a margin of 10 to 1 could have gone in, anyway. They wonder what kind of patsies their leaders are. That's the plain truth, John. I'm not kidding. Anyone here who has any sense of how the US megalomaniacs work thinks your people are taking it in the shorts.
But, carry on. The more your tactics of cluster bombing, depleted-uranium spraying, and wholesale torturing with top-level approval come to light, the sillier the Coalition of the Armtwisted is going to look. And whether or not complicit leaders are dispatched sooner, and longer, to the Opposition benches, they are going to have to live with their implication in a debased, hypocritical reign of terror.
Alas, we, your unheeded subjects, are going to pay for it with increased risk in their world, but you'll be sitting in some twilight home for disgraced pols, listening to the likes of John Laws blame someone else for your contributions to inviting terror attacks to our own shores.
Sincerely,
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