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22-3-03

Quote of the day

SIMON CREAN'S address to the nation was unimpressive and underwhelming. For a start, his tone evoked childrens stories on Play School. Not a good start.
- Gareth Parker
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...and further.....

Go read the rest of Gareth Parker's take on our national disgrace of an opposition leader's address to the nation.

Crean and the Labor party are a threat to this nations security. By sniping at our most important ally while hypocritically jumping at every whim of the corrupt and cretinous UN, Crean is morally unfit to lead this nation at any time in the future.

If you're religious, pray that these idiot bastards are kept out of office for as long as possible. If you're reading this from outside Australia, then lend us a prayer too.
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Message to all the peace marchers

Mwahaha

Oh yeah, all that fierce resistance the Iraqis were going to put up, the mass attacks worldwide by fearsome terrorist cells, the mass slaughter of civilians, the huge uprising in Arab street, the millions of refugees that were going to flee and die in the desert.

None of this has happened. Iraqi soldiers are surrendering by the thousand, no carpet bombing of civilians, no terrorist strikes. The Iraqi's have lost their port city, their western airbases, and the Iraqis are impotent in the north. And if we're lucky, Saddam may be seriously injured or dead.

All going swimmingly so far. Oh, and take a look at these great pictures.

But, as I predicted, some lefties are outraged by the lack of a bloodbath that would have enabled them to howl with moral indignation.
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Leunig: peacenick poetry straight from his colon brain to your eyes

A word of introduction for my overseas readers: Michael Leunig is a new-age, touchy-feely leftist cartoonist and "philosopher" who's always drawing godwful cartoons complaining about the horrors of modern life. Really, really deep stuff like this. He also once told us that we should "find a place in our hearts for the humanity of Osama bin Laden" - along with his Dec.25 message that Christmas "is a family day and Osama is our relative".

In today's Age, Mikey-boy shares some emotive..."poetry": Reflections on the war moon. It's the same waffling, emotive writing style we see from other leftists kooks like Richard Neville and Jean Baudrillard: dramatic, poetic rhetorical waffle which sounds like it's arguing about something, but which is merely some loud echoes from an empty mind.

On the dreadful nights leading up to war the moon grew larger, brighter and more useful to the invaders. Never has moonlight on the bush and the paddocks, normally so beautiful, seemed as ominous and tragic; and so unlike itself, having now been conscripted into the service of man's inhumanity to man.

It seems evil Dubya now has no limits: he's conscripted the moon into his butchery!!! Personally, I'd be more worried about how he managed to transport all those paddocks and bushes into the Iraqi desert.

Truth may well be the first casualty but to the intuitive mind psychological truths are illuminated and available like never before. In wartime a nation's emotional culture and the inner truth of many individuals, normally so concealed or defended, suddenly become more visible.

Uh, what?

The Foreign Minister is interviewed on radio about the grim details of war. At the end of the interview he is thanked by the journalist. "It's a pleasure," responds the minister. The relieved, compulsive, additional throwaway afterthought is often the most fascinating detail.

Yes, the foreign minister is courteous to journalists. Quick, somebody alert Margot!

In an age where "getting it right" is everything, smart, accurate weapons may actually seem more moral, intelligent and correct.

So, less civilian casualties might be seen as a good thing? What, really????

In almost every town across the land is a war monument where boys and girls are initiated into a state of mind: a reverence for the sacred authority of militarism and the unassailable glory of war. All a sad tragedy of course, but one towards which allegiance is owed and by which you are bound.

Sure Mikey, that must explain all the anti-war sentiment that exists. Don't ya just love leftists? Any opinions that differ from theirs are the result of wicked right-wing indoctrination.

War begets war. Each hit creates a craving for the next .

Really? The Japanese and Germans - once the world's greatest war addicts - don't seem too keen on getting another "hit". Getting your ass kicked can have that effect.

Peace at any price? If war is what we must pay for peace then "any price" is what is being paid, for who can claim to deeply understand that price of war - it is incalculable and so is the complex, unnegotiable interest that must be paid as time goes on.

This gets my early nomination for Most Meaningless Paragraph of 2003

How does one support our troops and yet feel anger, shame and disgust for what they have been sent to do? By taking pity upon them, feeling compassion for their souls, and considering the plight of their families - and by refusing spiritually to salute the uniform.

Sounds like the hate-the-sin, love-the-sinner "support" offered to gays by people like Fred Nile. The compassion of contempt. What a guy.

When war is imminent or in motion, some identify emotionally with the power and authority of militarism, even to the desperate extent that they can see the rightness of any war. The drum sounds, they fall into line - hearts quaking and minds saluting.

This is about the level of infantile war psychobabble we get from peacenicks. Drum sounds?. You know of an army that still carries drums into battle?.

The strong father is in control at last, and he knows what's best.

It's the elected government, not the military, who makes the decisions to send people to war, you idiot. Democracy, remember? Yes we know it's a frightening concept, but the rest of us got over your Soviet-utopian model a long time ago.

Relief at last from uncertainty and the loneliness of vulnerable individuality. Salvation from the hell and humiliation of some lost inner cause, because they are marching with the victorious regiment and now it is the enemy who will be humiliated ... "Winners are grinners" is the cry of the lost soul.

Fancy people wanting to win a war. How unenlightened of them. Only through being defeated can we find our souls again!

Fast food. Fast war. Fast democracy. The American dream. But in the slowness of time?

Ten bucks to anyone who can understand what he just wrote.

If there is a clash of civilisations at hand it may well be between those in all nations who are able to stand in other people's shoes and those who need to stand on other people's shoes.

Emotional, dramatic, nonsensical. Illustrating his points has never been Leunig's strong suit.

We have heard much of Saddam's tortures, and who is in a position to deny any of this? What is interesting is the lurid, graphic and lingering fascination of certain media commentators. It's as if we didn't know that torture was horrible. Yet it's as if they have been tortured themselves, at least psychologically - or have done a bit of similar torturing to others or would like to. The fascination always seems to serve the function of demonising somebody rather than arousing compassion and sympathy for the victim.

Oh my goodness, how terrible: torture might give the impression that Saddam is a psychotic shit and should be overthrown. Whatever happened to objectvity? Is noone considering Saddam's feelings in this?

And now, for possibly the most appalling display of leftist-sociopath moral equivalency we've seen in a while;

The Prime Minister has mentioned a fiendish torture machine owned by Saddam which shreds human flesh. Prime ministers should leave such revelations to backbenchers. And besides, the average tool shed or workshop of an Australian suburban bloke is crammed full with torture implements - if you want to think about it like that.

Further comment unnecessary....
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