Howard backs Bush on Iraq at APEC ("It's historic work," says Bush)

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Source: (Reuters) -



Howard backs Bush on Iraq at APEC

By Rob Taylor 1 hour, 35 minutes ago

SYDNEY (Reuters) - ...................

"Our commitment to Iraq remains. This is not the time for any proposals of a scaling down of Australian forces," Howard told a joint news conference with U.S. President George W. Bush, pointing to next week's crucial progress report to the U.S. Congress on the American troop surge in Iraq.

"It's historic work, Mr Prime Minister, and it's important work, and I appreciate the contribution that the Australians have made," Bush responded to the veteran Australian leader, whose support for the war in Iraq is clouding his re-election hopes.

The two men then clambered aboard a luxury yacht, and accompanied by a dozen zodiac boats packed with heavily armed, black-clad security personnel, sped across Sydney harbor to join several hundred Australian troops and sailors for lunch at the Garden Island naval base.

"I'm looking forward to you buying me lunch today. I'm a meat guy," Bush joked to Howard, who has been prime minister since 1996.

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[Demeter]

1. Historic, as in Days of Infamy!

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2. "I'm a meat guy"???

I wish I was surprised at that. But after 7 years of this ass clown for a pretzelnut... sigh.

He's not a "meat guy" but a "meat head".

[theHandpuppet]

3. Just call him "Weiner Man" or "Potted Meathead"

Maybe Australia reminds him of Texas.