Fur Gott und Vaterland, eh? That's totally ghastly, I strongly suspect even John Howard wouldn't come out with such utter tripe. And in fact he didn't, as a quick visit to snopes.com can confirm:
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Variations: A January 2008 version combined elements of this piece with a 2001 editorial about immigrants written by a U.S. Air Force veteran, creating the misleading impression that the hybrid version reflected a speech given by Australian prime minister John Howard.
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/australia.asp
so someone's been taken in. Word of advice: if you read something outrageous that agrees with your own startling evidence-free right-wing opinions, do take the time to check that you haven't been completely taken for a ride, preferably before you go public. The old maxim that a lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on is even more true with the internet. You're only hurting your own case, really.
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obviously his thoughts didnt work to well otherwise he would still be PM
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Seriously, did you not notice the Australian General Election? When he was exposed as a racist, a liar and a warmonger and booted out not only from the office of Prime Minister but from his seat too? Following that, a lot of his dafter proposals (including Australia's version of ID cards) got instantly canned. Incidentally, Kevin Rudd is a fervent Christian, if that's your idea of a good leader. Still, if you get your view of the world from fraudulent chain emails, you might miss things, so here you go:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/7111479.stm
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Mr Rudd signalled a swift break with his predecessor's policies by promising to sign the Kyoto Protocol and pull troops out of Iraq.
He also promised to attend next month's UN climate change summit in Bali.
Meanwhile, Peter Costello - Mr Howard's nominated successor - has turned down the post of opposition leader.
The BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney says that Australia's conservatives are wounded and fractured and it could take them years to recover from this election defeat.
With just over 75% of ballots counted, Mr Rudd's Labor has 53% of the vote and Mr Howard's conservative coalition 46.5%.
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Howard got in and stayed in with the same spin tricks Blair and Bush used, plus a nasty dose of veiled anti-immigrant racism. So much for 'refreshingly honest', then. His spin specialist Lynton Crosby later worked on Michael Howard's Conservatives campaign in 2005 using the same so-called 'dog-whistle'* issues as in Australia. Didn't work, I'm glad to say, Howard made a big mistake. However, Crosby's apparently now working for Boris Johnson's mayoral campaign, which does make me think old Boris is mentally lightweight. 'Immigrants out' isn't going to work in London. I was at a party last week talking to two guys, all three of us pulling in good money, the others rather more than me, being City boys. We had one English-born grandparent between us, my grandad.
* so called because they're coded in such a way as that only a section of the public hears them and the rest don't realise what you're up to. Never seemed a particularly honest way of going about things, really, but we are talking a man with a record in BS going back years.