Pollies Unimpressed with Sherriff term (Bush insults Australia)

[doxieone]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/031016/2/m3jr.html

Pollies unimpressed by sheriff badge (Australia)


US President George W Bush's description of Australia as a "sheriff" in the region was not particularly accurate or helpful, politicians said.

Mr Bush's comment revives controversy over the 1999 description of Australia as the USA's "deputy sheriff" in the region.


Asked about the term, Mr Bush told The Australian newspaper: "We don't see (Australia) as a deputy sheriff. We see it as a sheriff. There's a difference

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[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Please tell me this is satire

The more he opens his mouth ... Even if our media doesn't recognize it, others do. We're slowly becoming the laughing stock of the world.

[doxieone]

2. I found another article. They are truly upset.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/031016/21/m3i3.html

[JackSwift]

3. White man's burden

to police all those Asian folks.

[nomaco-10]

4. Is there just no end

to the capabilities of this moron to insult and alienate every country on the face of the earth? What a global embarrasment and a colossal idiot. I'm running out of friendly countries for my self imposed exile if the dumb bastard wins in 2004.

[TacticalPeek]

5. High sheriff of the Crusade.

:shrug:

[Matilda]

6. It's more of an insult to John Howard than to the country,

but it's thoroughly deserved. In the lead-up to the Iraq invasion
Howard was often drawn by cartoonists wearing a Deputy Sheriff's
badge because of the way he was ready to follow after Sheriff Bush,
who was always drawn like a cowboy. So Bush has made a mistake
in thinking we see ourselves as any sort of Sheriff - we know it
applies to little brown-nosing John Howard.