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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (52204)	10/9/2004 8:28:27 PM
From: techguerrilla	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 81568

Australia has 850 troops in Iraq ..... like wow! .......... As Kerry pointed out last night--that's fewer than the number of troops Missouri has over there. Australia's support in the coalition of the coerced and bribed is utterly astonishing. Howard probably won because he may have guaranteed not to send more. /john

To: Brumar89 who wrote (52204)	10/9/2004 9:29:22 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

John Howard, known in Australia as the "Little Rodent" prevented a Labor Party win by promising to make a large portion of Tasmania's forests a Nature Preserve closed to logging. This shifted the Senate seats in Tasmania, which had been solidly Labor Party, to John Howard's Liberal Party Coalition which made a win by Mark Latham and the Labor Party impossible. Nation-wide all parties lost seats to the Green Party whose environmentalist agenda resonates ever more strongly in Australia. It's ironic that this shift to the left supported Howard's re-election. One happy note is both Pauline Hanson and her former right-wing "One Nation Party" received less than 1% of the vote nationally which is even less than their 2% showing last election.