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ArcticWind7, nice post

flipfreek, Howard is not a racist, i have never heard of Howard being a raciest. actually he even did a highly controversial intervention recently in a attempt to stabilize the Aboriginals deteriorating culture. As for asians, he allows many asian immigrants eg, every other person in Melbourne (australias 2nd biggest city) is a asian or pilipino.

people say Howard is a raciest because he won't apologize for "the stolen generation" which was a raciest black spot on our history that many white people have apologized to the aboriginals for it. but Howard refuses to apologize for it, although he does admits it was wrong. If Howard apologized it that would mean the Federal government would be admitting fault and could open the way for the worlds biggest class action lawsuit.

AzTeK, assuming howard is as smart as you, and he was in office for 11Yrs. i assume he knows his forces are stuck in Iraq lest he hand the country over to extremists.

there is one thing i respect Rudd for though...
HE IS THE WORLDS GREATEST SALES MAN!!!
i mean it, he had the election slogan "new leadership, new idears" even though the majority of his policies were the idears of the old leadership J, Howards idears. Kevin packaged the old and sold them as new, if his PM job falls though i'm gonna start a business and get him as a sales rep. the man is a marketing genius, if he turns out to be half as good a PM as he is a sales man he actually will be a good replacement for howard.
(yes i know how biased i am)