Sunday, November 12, 2006

 

US Elections - A return to sanity?

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I am delighted with the result of the American elections. Congratulations to the US Democratic Party who now control both Houses of the Congress. I am even more delighted with the sacking of Rumsfeld who has proven to be a totally incompetent, warmongering ideologue. I hope the next to go will be the arrogant US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. Since his appointment he has done everything possible to destroy and manipulate the UN. All this may be the beginning of the return of some sanity. Most importantly there may now be some prospect of a halt to the slaughter that has gone on in Iraq since Bush, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Cheney and company went on their mad imperial venture to secure energy for their next American Century. Well done the US Democrats and well done the American voters.

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The Democrats winning the US congressional elections may mean that the United States will start a serious inquiry into the AWB scandal of their own, especially if Cole's report is inconclusive as a result of the Government restricting its terms of reference. I doubt very much that a Democrat-led congressional inquiry will be satisfied with "I'm too incompetent to be expected to actually READ memos and reports from my department!" from members of the Australian Cabinet. We will not be serving ourselves nor our American allies well by whitewashing over this and giving our government a free pass, and a US Congress more interested in our alliance than in the short term political relationship between our Prime Minister and their President will see that.
 
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