Mood: loud
Topic: peace
No one seems too keen to welcome war mongering Dick Cheney, USA Vice President to Australia on Feb 22nd 2007. The Australian's Matt Price wrote of his dodgy credentials in a scathing column recently partly extracted elsewhere on SAM: Refer 14th Feb 2007
PM Howard running over political crocs to VP Cheney visit Feb 22, safe haven or vortex of demise?
Mood: don't ask
Topic: election Oz 2007
Similarly notice these adverse mainstream reports:
Cheney may snub outspoken Japan Defense chief: report - Boston Globe - 11 Feb 2007
Visit not helping Howard | The Courier-Mail
Dan Froomkin - The Unraveling of Dick Cheney - washingtonpost.com
The Raw Story | Friend: Cheney says Washington is 'all BS,' full of 'suffering fools'
His chief of staff is in big big legal poo there in the USA in a 'CIA leak trial' as per the Huffington Post blog image here:
Caption: "I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, right, arrives at U.S. Federal Court in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007 with one of his lawyers, William Jeffress, Jr."
Now we have received this email from an active member of Democrats Abroad Australia:
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:18 AM Subject: Dick Cheney: Puppetmaster!
Quite clever I thought (not my idea by the way), I'm also trying to get my PA system back for quality audio protests which I could lend to any Australian groups. Sorry I haven't hooked up with you sooner, but I've been doing Chinese New Year installations. But now I have your email it will be a good way to keep in touch. Adios xxxxx 04xx xxx xxx Even though Cheney is only flying into Canberra, and not coming to Sydney, we are hoping to get some coverage of Angry Americans! See the attached email below from our chair Marla. http://www.pm.gov.au/news/media_releases/media_Release2348.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070129-6.html Hola! xxx It was good talking to you, as promised here is the info about our peaceful demo 21 February 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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As to Cheney's specific itinerary this is open source
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21216089-5006301,00.html
His trip comes after a brief visit to Japan, at which he plans to snub Defence Minister Fumio Kyuma, who called the Iraq war a "mistake".