Indecent Endorsements

Why is the son of freshly re-elected Australian PM John Howard working for George Bush's re-election campaign?

Why is Howard openly endorsing Bush's re-election, heaping praise on the fool who led him into the Iraqi quagmire? As Howard himself all but admitted yesterday, the Iraq issue could have cost him the election, but his Labour opponents failed to capitalize on it:

"Clearly our opponents did not see it as a major negative and they didn't really pursue the issue," he said.