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Kevin Rudd plans to withdraw one-third of Australian troops in Iraq. Gerard Henderson:
In July, Rudd said that Australia’s “continued presence in Iraq is making Australia into a bigger and bigger terrorist target” …
If Australia is a terrorist target with some 1500 personnel in Iraq under Howard, it will remain a target with some 1000 personnel under Rudd. Moreover, Rudd supports Howard on Afghanistan. The withdrawal of the Overwatch Battle Group may win votes for Labor, but it will not make Australia any less a target for terrorism.
Maybe Rudd thinks they’ll only attack two-thirds of us.
It is half arsed withdrawal policies that produced the likes of Kev.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 18 at 12:52 AM • permalinkHe’ll cut it down to 999 troops, since that sounds like way less than 1000.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 09 18 at 12:53 AM • permalinkUm…how many terrorist attacks has Australia suffered since the invasion of Iraq?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 09 18 at 12:57 AM • permalinkWhat do you call people who use the withdrawal method of contraception?
Mum and Dad.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 18 at 12:57 AM • permalink#6 - Algore has visited 3 times at least and is plannng another attack next month.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 18 at 01:01 AM • permalinkKev’s good at withdrawal method.
Arrr… a new style of burqa.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/gallery/0,22056,5025757-5010141-10,00.html
This is just plain wrong and will end in tears.
The way I see it, the more troops that are at home, the more opportunities for scallywag behaviour such as, blowing up anthills at Mount Bundey, bombing the crap out of Delamere, sucking on beer bongs, running around with pillow slips on heads and getting bigger racks.
And we all know how such behaviour by underemployed members of the armed services is poo poohed by our intellectual betters, however loudly oaves such as I cheer it on.
No no no. Much better off having them overseas killing baddies, breaking things, then fixing them up again.
They’re having the time of their lives, Kev, doing what they’ve trained for.
Leave them alone.
#6
Um…how many terrorist attacks has Australia suffered since the invasion of Iraq?
An excellent question. Also noteworthy, that (just like 9/11) the Bali Bombing happened well prior to Iraq.
Unfortunately, any Islamist attacks in the next century, will be conveniently blamed on Iraq (and of course Israel), rather than the real root cause - Islamism which has a history of violence against non-Muslims dating back centuries.
Kevin’s grand plan is to cease the blame game and bring equity and fairness back to the armed forces. His plan for the future is to convert the armed forces into an odd job squad. He’s going to bring them back to where they’re needed most - the suburbs of Australia. They’ll be carrying out routine dentistry work; cleaning gutters; hanging pictures; walking dogs; taking the minutes at committee meetings; erecting hootchies to combat the housing crisis. In short, they’ll be restoring the balance. Unlike Mr Howard, this is his plan for Australia.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 18 at 01:57 AM • permalinkeplanation: because no one likes a hairy stewardess.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 09 18 at 02:08 AM • permalinkThe ALP’s policy on the War on Terror is about the lamest, most poll-driven piece of shit ever to masquerade as a policy.
Leaving aside the “2/3” stuff Tim already points out, the ALP policy seems to rely on Islamic radicals being really riled up about Iraq, but totally a-ok with any troops in Afghanistan.
Which, as Rudd states, he wants to INCREASE our commitment.
Keep that in mind Rudd is either A) arguing Afghanistan a greater strategic prize than Iraq or B) Crafting a policy that will satisfy the absurd anti-war left within his party.
What. a. fucking. joke.
Posted by Quentin George on 2007 09 18 at 02:09 AM • permalinkI’m looking forward to my new role of guiding spastic kiddies in the assembly of Airfix models (no nasty offensive type ones mind), and recycling the airscrews from C130s into windpower turbines.
That’s if my dwarf Aboriginal lesbian Moslem CO doesn’t have me on a zinger for possession of a penis, of course.
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But at least she’ll have great tits.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 09 18 at 02:49 AM • permalinkIf anyone was silly enough to make me PM of anywhere my policy would be quite simple.
Any kidnapping of my people sees an increase in troops.
Any terror attack sees an increase in my troops.
Any attack on my troops sees an increase in my troop levels.Not attacking my troops will see their numbers fall
Not committing terror attacks will see my troop numbers fall
Not kidnapping my people will see my troop numbers fall
All withdrawals of my troops would be based on MY strategic goals being met.Its pretty simple which is why I see the Spanish leftist scum government and the ALP have big problems grasping it.
“..dwarf Aboriginal lesbian Moslem CO
But at least she’ll have great tits..”Stick her in a wheelchair and Id hit it…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 18 at 03:08 AM • permalinkHey you guys I’d be a bit careful giving Rudd all this stick, he knows Mandarin and he ain’t afraid to use it.
Posted by the nailgun on 2007 09 18 at 03:32 AM • permalinkThe ABC hard at it again
JP Morgan says the problem is being masked for the moment by excessive use of credit cards.
If you have a home loan you are having trouble servicing the ABC will now absolve you of any guilt for bad choices/ bad luck/ bad mathematics, its the Libs fault.
“The number of Australian households enduring mortgage repayment stress is tipped to rise above 600,000 in coming months.”
Mortgage stress was buying an investment property while shearing sheep then living in an unairconditioned caravan for 4 years while refugees threw rocks at me. None of which earned more than 55k per year.
This blind acceptance of an indistinct “spin” term by the media to generate news stories is weird. You are now a victim because you cant drink bollinger and have to either lose your house or cut back to a nice Australian white wine?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 18 at 03:34 AM • permalink#4
He’ll cut it down to 999 troops, since that sounds like way less than 1000.
0.999 kilotroop
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 09 18 at 04:47 AM • permalink#31 Just so long as I don’t lose me 42” plasma. Gotta watch the Grand Final on something you know.
Posted by Hump B Bare on 2007 09 18 at 04:59 AM • permalink#34- And of course totally unrelated to the annual buying orgy between now and Dec 25 to placate little Tarquin-Belvedere and Paris-Schapelle, slinging everything they put on their poorly-spelt and grammatically indeciferable missive to Srasonal Gift Man onto a wafer-thin Visa linked to the declining equity in their Blacktown goldmine, on on tick at KMart.
It’s all John Howards fault I tells ye, not the inability of bogans to live withing their means, or more to the point recognising a commodity bubble when they see one.
It is however his governments fault for slinging idiots a wedge to buy property they can’t afford and is worth less than their fibreglass-festooned Commodore in real terms, then continuing the program when it clearly was causing an artificial rise in the property market- then exascerbating the phenomena by pressuring the Reserve Bank to keep the lid on interest rates long after they were due for a rise.
One would expect an allegedly free-market capitalist government to know better than to manipulate markets. Let’s face it, they’re about as free market as the toot-soaked trotskyites in Hollywood.
If that purse lipped prissy faced fuckwit gets in and pulls out essential troops from Iraq against the advice of his generals then God help him if one, even one, Digger dies because of his weak as piss politically correct BS, then I can only echo the words of a Centurion of the Augustus Legion, Marcus Flavinius, from more than a thousand years ago in a letter to his brother in Rome:
” Make haste to reassure me, I beg you, and tell me that our fellow citizens understand us, support us, and protect us as we ourselves are protecting the glory of the Empire.
If it should be otherwise, if we should have to leave our bleached bones on these desert sands in vain, then beware the anger of the legions”The Krudd will apparently say or do anything that makes him acceptable to his snivelling PC voter base, including risking our Diggers lives.
Beware the anger of the legions indeed.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 09 18 at 09:09 AM • permalinkOn the other hand, turning an Aussie battlegroup lose on Cronulla Beach could be a hoot…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 09 18 at 10:04 AM • permalinkN0# 22 That’s if my dwarf Aboriginal lesbian moslem CO doesn’t have me on a zinger for possession of a penis, of course.
I, I… was just cleaning my weapon, Wing Commander, when it went off in my hand, honest!
Posted by lex luthor on 2007 09 18 at 09:29 PM • permalinkWay to let terrorists control your foreign policy Kev!
Posted by Big Johnny on 2007 09 20 at 06:31 PM • permalink
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No. I think this clealy takes WA off the table.