January 13, 2009
A heartfelt hat tip to “a man of steel”…(The Sanity Inspector)

Former prime minister John Howard says he was touched to receive the US Medal of Freedom from President George W Bush at the White House this morning.

Mr Bush personally awarded the medal to Mr Howard for his support for peace, freedom and human rights.

“He is a man of honesty, and moral clarity … he can make a decision and he can defend it and he stands his ground,” Mr Bush said. “That’s why I callled him a man of steel.”

Mr Howard says he is very pleased to have received the honour.

“I certainly appreciated it, and I felt honoured and I felt touched,” he said.

“There were some very kind things said about me. But I do, nonetheless, put it in the broader context of it being a compliment to my country.”

Thanks to John Howard’s steadfastness (he was the object of his own country’s version of Bush Derangement Syndrome) and determination to roll back The Jihad, quite a lot of terrorists’ last glimpses of Australians looked something like this.

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  1. Comment by Dan Collins on 1/13 @ 7:23 pm #

    Hear, hear!

  2. Comment by Jeffersonian on 1/13 @ 7:43 pm #

    I was working with an ex-SAS a guy when the Bali bombers struck, killing scores of Aussie tourists. He hadn’t heard the news at that time. He pursed his lips, looked down at the floor and said, “Ya doon’t fook…with the Ostrile-yuns.” John Howard is one reason why.

  3. Comment by Bob Reed on 1/13 @ 7:45 pm #

    At least we had one ally that understands the dangers of Islamo-fascism…

  4. Comment by dre on 1/13 @ 7:54 pm #

    Vlaams Belang wants to revoke the Belgian nationality of immigrant rioters

    Published on January 13, 2009 at 09:19

    Filip Dewinter: “He who will not be taught must suffer. Flanders is not the Gaza Strip. Immigrant troublemakers are the terrorists of the future, abuse our hospitality and must leave!”

    In recent days and weeks, in Antwerp as well as in Brussels and Mechelen, young immigrants triggered riots and caused a lot of damage to shops, public buildings and street furniture as a result. The violence and vandalism were invariably the result of anti-Israel demonstrations of all sorts. According to Filip Dewinter, the city government “harvests what they have sown. This policy of pampering ensures the radical minority the delusion of being untouchable. The war situation in Gaza is only a pretext to provoke the government and the authority, and to riot. Organizations like the AEL and related extremist groups want to test the limits of what is acceptable and see how far they can go. In the end they apply the same tactics as the Hamas in Gaza: provocation, escalation, confrontation.”

    According to Filip Dewinter, immigrants who run amok here and commit violence and acts of vandalism no longer have the right on our hospitality. “Given that all of these immigrants have a dual nationality, it is perfectly possible for to revoke their Belgian nationality and expel them,” said Filip Dewinter yesterday in a direct television debate on ATV.

    “We must dare to set a clear example and follow a decisive stick-behind-the-door [under conditions] policy. A minority of Muslim immigrants benefits from the situation of lighting the fuse to the powder keg here as well. We must dare to show who the boss is on the street, not the Osama Bin Laden nominees, but our own government. The Islamic immigrant hooligans of today are the terrorists of tomorrow,” says Filip Dewinter.

    ?

  5. Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/13 @ 8:14 pm #

    The Diggers are good friends, and terrifying enemies.

  6. Comment by MAJ (P) John on 1/13 @ 10:09 pm #

    The Australians I have worked with (Army and civilian) have generally been damned good people – I think PM Howard was a fairly good reflection of that.

    I rather liked Mr. Howard’s “Now is not the time to be an 80% ally”…

  7. Comment by Patrick Carroll on 1/13 @ 11:21 pm #

    Love the Ozzies. I think they’ve been stabbed in the back by the fecklessness of Bush and Rice.

  8. Comment by lee on 1/14 @ 1:11 am #

    I think they’ve been stabbed in the back by the fecklessness of Bush and Rice.

    Say what now…?

  9. Comment by Joe on 1/14 @ 8:10 am #

    If only this “man of steel in his own mind” would leave Sarah Palin alone and focus his true talents and powers on Osama Bin Laden

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