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Labor to again press PM on Iraq withdrawal

Debate about an exit strategy for Australian troops in Iraq is expected to continue in Federal Parliament today.

Labor's Defence spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon says the Opposition will press the Prime Minister again today about the future for Australian troops in Iraq.

"We're in doubt Mr Deputy Speaker about whether in the face of current opinion polling, the Prime Minister's now developing a withdrawal strategy from Iraq, and hopefully during Question Time he'll get an opportunity to clarify that point," Mr Fitzgibbon said.

"The Prime Minister needs now to clarify his ambiguous answer yesterday, does he have an exit strategy for Iraq or not and if he now has one, what's changed?

John Howard says he is being misrepresented.

Moses and Solomon would be appalled by the VP

Our Mad Mad Mad Mad Vice President Speaks

by Karen Kwiatkowski

The Cheney speech to AIPAC – reassuring militant rightwingers in Israel and the US that America is leaning forward on Iran, and that we are never leaving Iraq – was filled with honesty and conviction, and gives us a clear window into the administration's thinking.

Cheney's description of terrorists is somewhat emotional and overblown. Calling them "freedom's enemies," he comes dangerously close to describing this administration's id. His emphasis on one-side’s victims in last summer's war with Lebanon, and his proud silence on the thousands killed, injured, made homeless and jobless by American weaponry is also understandable as he speaks to the AIPAC audience. His "three myths" on Iraq and the so-called war on terror are sermons to a choir that raises its voice demanding America be not a policeman in the Middle East, not an inspiration, but a blustering and imbecilic bodyguard.

El Bushaiola Dittatore

From the New York Times

House, 218 to 212, Votes to Set Date for Iraq Pullout
By JEFF ZELENY
Published: March 24, 2007

WASHINGTON, March 23 — A deeply divided House of Representatives voted Friday to bring most American combat troops home from Iraq next year, with Democrats employing their new Congressional majority to create the most forceful challenge yet to President Bush’s war policy.

The legislation aimed at accelerating an end to the war passed on a vote of 218 to 212, with all but two Republicans opposing. Even as the debate moves to the Senate, where a less restrictive plan is to be considered next week, Mr. Bush dismissed the action as “political theater” and promised to veto attempts to manage the war from Capitol Hill.

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Gus: Hey? Who's doing "political theater"? Bozo disguised as El Bushaiola Dittatore — the decider of wars and pestilence to those who are passing in front of his manic ways? Or the real democracy via elected people?

So the idiot of the White House has Vetomania? can't stop scratching himself to see he's not dreamin' with all these little red buttons... And our Rattus USfollowus still rabbits on about "our national interests" which so far he has not listed, precisely — but are more likely to involve massive brown-nosing.