Australian Elections Results

MidGe · #1 11-24-2007, 07:23 AM

Children overboard,
WMD in Iraq,
etc...

Have you got a memory problem? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

MidGe · #2 11-24-2007, 07:35 AM

The Prime Minister has publicly conceded electoral defeat.

He is out! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

bazooka87 · #3 11-24-2007, 07:41 AM

Couldn't give a [censored] about the result, don't really care.
BUT, a mate of mine who really cares promised he'd eat his hat if Howard lost his seat

zasterguava · #4 11-24-2007, 08:10 AM

Thanks for the updates Midge. I'm in Australia but don't watch TV so havn't been following it much.

I understand the labour party has a strong trade union presence so thats great news. Will there be fireworks in Melbourne tonight?

MidGe · #5 11-24-2007, 08:18 AM

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Couldn't give a [censored] about the result, don't really care.
BUT, a mate of mine who really cares promised he'd eat his hat if Howard lost his seat

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I am not amzed you don't care. You probably don't know how much the Australian support counted in the Korean. Vietnam war and now in Iraq. I really wish we treated the US the same way... they were not very supportive when we would have been helped by their support in Timor, an area that was of great significance to us. But as you indicated, the US is only to be counted for demands and not for support, at least in the last half a century.. How things change!

How arrogant your position!

Phil153 · #6 11-24-2007, 08:27 AM

lol, get off your high horse. Australia support in Iraq doesn't make a lick of difference to any strategic or military outcomes. We add less than 1% of their troop number and even less in terms of technology. It's purely symbolic.

Should he care about the Georgian or Polish elections as well? They sent more troops than we did.

foal · #7 11-24-2007, 08:39 AM

Support from other countries in our wars matters for reasons other than troop support. So it is relevant... although anti-us sentiment in almost any part of the world certainly doesn't seem like news anymore.

MidGe · #8 11-24-2007, 08:57 AM

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lol, get off your high horse. Australia support in Iraq doesn't make a lick of difference to any strategic or military outcomes. We add less than 1% of their troop number and even less in terms of technology. It's purely symbolic.

Should he care about the Georgian or Polish elections as well? They sent more troops than we did.

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It mattered a lot when they were trying to put the coalition of the willing together!

Re: Polish election, yes... more important than the Georgian ones!

What are you trying to say?

bazooka87 · #9 11-24-2007, 09:37 AM

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I am not amzed you don't care. You probably don't know how much the Australian support counted in the Korean. Vietnam war and now in Iraq. I really wish we treated the US the same way... they were not very supportive when we would have been helped by their support in Timor, an area that was of great significance to us. But as you indicated, the US is only to be counted for demands and not for support, at least in the last half a century.. How things change!

How arrogant your position!

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Err I'm actually Australian, and you're extremely overrating the significance of our forces overseas.
I'm not saying I don't completely care about how the country is run, I'm merely suggesting that my life won't really change much at all