Posted by tealady on January 13, 2007, at 16:22:10
In reply to Re: John Howard » Dunder, posted by Declan on November 29, 2006, at 12:55:16
> He was named John Winston Howard after Churchill.
> You can imagine Churchill (or Lincoln) saying something magnanimous that acknowledged the tragedy of the situation.
> It beats me that the current leadership can attempt to appropriate that legacy, though fortunately no one has taken it seriously.
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> Our Foreign Minister is always talking about 'appeasement'. The Australian Wheat Board paid $300 million to Saddam's regime in bribes and claimed them as a 'business facilitation' tax deduction, so he has been forced back to that old standby of saying the opposition should apologise and (sometimes) wash their mouths out with soap. It sure aint Churchill, but it does sound quaintly Victorian so maybe I shouldn't complain.
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LOL.. yes it deooes sound quaintly Victorian :)
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