Battle of the Morons

Prime Minister John Howard does his best to be even more of a moron than Dubya by explaining to our neighbours that good prime ministers would carry out a "pre-emptive strike". According to the ABC news today, "Mr Howard defended his remarks that pre-emptive action might be warranted if there was no other option to stop terrorist attacks on Australian soil". He wants to appear as if he is a tough, responsible leader; but he does this by playing on our fear, leveraging our emotions about Bali and acting in the same stupid arrogant way that Bush acts. He he so keen to crawl up Bush's bum he is willing to talk nonsense - to publicly say that if he can't think of anything else, or if in his opinion our neighbours aren't behaving to the standard he has set, he'll just go ahead and attack anyway. Just like Bush's pronouncements about Iraq. What an arrogant priq.




A pre-emptive strike is the same thing as starting a war. Its the same thing as saying bugger international law, different rules should apply to us because we are, well, Western; we are "Civilisation Itself" and anyway, Dubya will protect us, won't he?

We don't want war, Mr Howard. Don't be a moron. Figure out how to do some real leadership. Work for peace, work for justice.