Can you imagine how very pissed Cheney is? Making him wait 36 hours before seeing him? I’m surprised his big evil egotistical head didn’t explode! I mean really….making the King wait 36 hours. To be a fly on the wall…….
The vice president also said that Australia may redeploy its forces in the war on terror as it sees fit
Gee, they must be so relieved. The almighty has said they MAY redeploy if the wish.
Where’s Scottie……come in Scottie. You have to give us the scoop on this visit!!

SYDNEY: Vice President Dick Cheney received a less than effusive welcome during a three-day visit to Australia that ended Sunday, amid lingering tensions over China and the war in Iraq.
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Australia[/tag] remains one of Washington’s strongest allies, but as the country heads into an election year, Prime Minister John Howard’s interaction with Cheney appeared perfunctory and brief. The Australian leader waited 36 hours after the vice president’s arrival before meeting him, and even then spared Cheney barely an hour of his time before giving a notably short joint news conference.

“The trip emphasizes the relationship between these governments, and the Bush administration is much less popular in Australia than the alliance,” said Michael Fullilove, program director for global issues at the Lowy Institute, a think tank based in Sydney.

Although a recent survey indicated that 70 percent of Australians think the alliance with the United States is important to their country’s security, the Bush administration and the war in Iraq are far less popular. The continuing detention of the Australian citizen David Hicks, who has been held in Guantnamo Bay for more than five years without trial, has also angered Australians.

Cheney assured Howard that Hicks would be among the first to face the military tribunals that Washington has created to try non-American suspects held as “enemy combatants.”

The vice president also said that Australia may redeploy its forces in the war on terror as it sees fit.

Read more at the International Herald Tribune