Howard picked on the wrong guy

In February 2007, Mr Howard was reported to have said that al-Qaeda should be "praying as many times as possible" for an Obama victory in the 2008 elections.

Howard, racially thinking Obama's chances are Nil, thought he could
slam Obama and win over Bush's heart (now voted the most unpopular president in the history of US).

For Bush, CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said "No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark".

Mr Howard banked on the wrong horse. Mr Obama has won the US elections in a land slide. Had Mr Howard remained as prime minister of Australia, we would have been in an embarrassing situation now, to say the least, with the new US administration.

Now, all leaders who called and pushed for the invasion of Iraq have all lost elections and history will remember them with bitterness. Bush will always be associated with war, bloodshed and the darkest times in American history.

US soldiers rape their own comrades

Women serving in the U.S. military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq." - CNN Thurs 31st July,08

Reports have been coming out in the last month about the epidemic of sexual assault and rape crimes by US male soldiers. These cases are not crimes against Iraqi women...they are committed against female US soldiers - comrades.

A congresswoman said "Women serving in the U.S. military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq". The report says that 41 percent of the female veterans seen in the Veterans hospital say they were victims of sexual assault while serving in the military. Last year, Col. Janis Karpinski caused a stir by publicly reporting that in 2003, three female soldiers had died of dehydration in Iraq, which can get up to 126 degrees in the summer, because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being raped by male soldiers if they walked to the latrines after dark.

The Department of Defense refused to allow the senior civilian in charge of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) to testify in the August 2008 hearing on sexual assault in the military.

The difficult question that I would like to ask is: If this is what US soldiers do to their own female comrades, what do they do to the 'enemy' - the Iraqi women?? What are the statistics? Why is it not reported? What are the soldiers of 'freedom' bringing to the women of Iraq? I hate to think!!!