Monday, July 25, 2005
BET ON IT
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Alan Ramsey, who is almost always completely wrong, gets it wrong again:
Meanwhile, know that our Prime Minister has another birthday on Tuesday - his 66th. Expect he and Janette will likely spend it, in front of the television cameras, with Australian forces from Iraq flown to Oman for the occasion. You can bet they won’t go to Iraq itself.
Much too dangerous.
Good call, Al:
Prime Minister John Howard has made a top-secret visit to Iraq to meet with Australian troops and hold talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.
Mr Howard landed in Baghdad where he met with Mr Jaafari for half an hour and then travelled to Iraq’s southern Al Muthanna province, where 450 Australian troops are helping train Iraqi security forces and protecting Japanese military engineers working on reconstruction efforts.
(Via Wheels128)