Australia Pulls Troops From Iraq ...

Still think there's such a thing as a Coalition of the Willing?

Ha! How hilarious.

Have you heard the latest regarding further troop withdrawals from Iraq?

Australia ends Iraq combat role

Australia, one of the first countries to commit troops to the war in Iraq five years ago, has ended its combat operations there.

Australian troops are due to begin returning home in a few days in line with a promise by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who swept to power in November.

He said the previous government had abused intelligence information to justify joining the Iraq war.

In parliament on Monday, Mr Rudd said his predecessor, John Howard, had been wrong to join the war in Iraq.

Read the rest of this writing on the wall war report.

We wonder what these two will think, eh?

(Cross posted at appletree)

Australia's General Election Result : John Howard Out and Kevin Rudd In ...

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To borrow a few words from Australia's national anthem ...

Advance Australia Fair.



As from now it's a case of hello Kevin Rudd (above) new 'left' leader -- and bye-bye John Howard (below) old 'right' (but laughingly labeled Liberal) ex leader.



Read the rest of this report.

And our own last words, already wending their way to our Antipodean amigos down under?

Good on yer, cobbers!

Have a 'tinny' or two of the old 'triple X' on us, mates.

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Bush, Iraq, Australia, APEC, OPEC And Kicking Ass ...

G'day, cobbers & sheilas.

Some messages sent straight from Oz, re: almighty APEC arseholes, effin' about and doing the dirty down under.



And surprise, surprise -- the biggest arsehole of them all (by far), puts his foot straight in it -- as always.

G.W. Bush, fresh from Iraq:"We're kicking ass," he told Mark Vaile on the tarmac after the Deputy Prime Minister inquired politely of the President's stopover in Iraq en route to Sydney.

G.W. Bush: More brain-dead blather: APEC, OPEC, SCHMOPEC ... whatever. Next year ... this year ... whenever ...

Our old selves: Goodgawdstrewth! Give us strength. The w*nker worsens by the week.

Sydney Morning Herald: Loudza lightest relighted reportz links.

Strewth, eh? Fair dinkum, dingos & possoms. Tie me kangaroo down, sports. Have a nice die, mites.

Messages ends, mites. That's all the Oz lingo what we know ow t'speak, mites.