Protesters excercising their democractic rights were denounced as being in league with Saddam Hussein, while mates of the prime minister’s actually in league with Saddam Hussein (allegedly, based on evidence at the Cole Inquiry) were given kid-glove treatment and extended the prime minister’s every trust.
How’s that judgement working out for you, prime minister?
PM denounces protesters […]

As usual, the frame favours Mr Howard:
IT’S official: the Iraq war, according to the US intelligence assessment, has become a “cause celebre” for jihadists, a judgment that should put the Howard Government in the political dock.
During the past week John Howard has been politically astute in deflecting heat from the US assessment.
Now, at least Kelly […]

Listening to: Love Songs for Patriots by American Music Club. Actually don’t know much about them, but got this album about 18 months ago and have really grown to like it. Plenty to read about them here, and see what you think of this track.

Reading: Bugger all.
Watching: Going to a show tonight which […]

Is it possible that the Howard Government is starting to be held to account for its record of mismanagement? Well, anything’s possible….
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A US national intelligence estimate from April said the Iraq war had spawned a new generation of Islamic radicals and made the terrorism problem worse, the New York Times newspaper reported overnight.
However, Mr Howard said today that global terrorism had been a problem since well before the invasion of Iraq.
Yes, but…..

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Prime Minister J-Ho dismissed the collective opinion of the 16 major US intelligence agencies the other day as “just one view” while failing to provide any information that, you know, countered their view. Here’s another little fact he can add to his list of things-to-be-ignored:
A quarter of a million Iraqis have fled sectarian violence […]

Remember when the Abu Ghraib photos first came out? The Bush Administration and their rightwing enablers in the media went into denial about them and spun the line that this was a few bad apples, that such practices did not reflect the commands or views of American political or military leadership, and that all […]

Dennis Shanahan’s career as a stand-up comic is coming along nicely with his latest improv on the most recent Newspoll results:
VOTER dissatisfaction with Kim Beazley’s leadership is undermining Labor’s election-winning lead in crucial marginal seats.
Yep, Kim Beazley’s irrelevant preferred PM vote is ‘undermining’ Labor’s poll results to such an extent that their lead went up […]

I talked to some post-grad students yesterday at Carnegie-Mellon University about political blogging and how it has developed in Australia. I was asked a lot of interesting questions, including what advice would I give Federal Labor about winning the next election and using blogs as a campaign tool.
I’m not sure I had a particularly […]

As if there was any doubt as to who came out looking the worse in the recent Clinton vs Fox interview, Fox have now ordered YouTube to remove the footage from their site.
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