Monday, September 20, 2004

Kerry tries to overthrow Australian government

If you didn't know that Kerry's campaign had been clintonized, here would be another big, fat indication:

"John Kerry's campaign has warned Australians that the Howard Government's support for the US in Iraq has made them a bigger target for international terrorists.

"Diana Kerry, younger sister of the Democrat presidential candidate, told The Weekend Australian that the Bali bombing and the recent attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta clearly showed the danger to Australians had increased.

"Australia has kept faith with the US and we are endangering the Australians now by this wanton disregard for international law and multilateral channels," she said, referring to the invasion of Iraq.

Asked if she believed the terrorist threat to Australians was now greater because of the support for Republican George W. Bush, Ms Kerry said: "The most recent attack was on the Australian embassy in Jakarta - I would have to say that."

The Clintonoid precedent for this is the previous administration's blatant interference in Israeli domestic politics to destroy then-PM Benjamin Netanyahu and replace him with Laborite Ehud Barak, a man so obsequiously obedient to Clinton's Nobel Prize-quest that he offered up his country to Yassir Arafat to be butchered. Only Arafat's greed stood in the way of Israeli national suicide.

Admittedly, Kerry sending his kid sister to sound the Bushophobic (Howardiphobic?) clarion call isn't quite the same level of meddling foray, but PM John Howard is up for re-election himself, and sooner than George Bush is. If Howard could be tipped, so must go Kerry's thinking, he could point to the Australian example as why Americans should follow suit.

Doesn't seem to occur to the Boston Balker that al Qaeda is also trying to unravel GDub's Coalition of the Willing. Or that the Bali bombing to which his sibling surrogate made reference took place five months before the invasion of Iraq. Or that the Bush Administration was enforcing "international law and multilateral channels," and that the reason they had to do so on the UN's behalf was that most of the rest of the Security Council - you know, John Kerry's phantom "allies" - was so far up Saddam's "Oil-for-Food" hindquarters that when they collectively exhaled it made his mustache tickle.

Or that trying to undermine an ally in a time of war is not only despicable treachery, but gives the lie to Kerry's bleat that he's an "alliance-builder."

Reportedly Mr. Howard is comfortably ahead in Australian polls.

And because of stunts like this, so, increasingly, is George W. Bush.