Writing on the Wall Shows Preparation for the Crash
Bush Ally Howard Defeated in Australia Next Prime Minister Promises New Course on Iraq, Warming
By Rohan Sullivan Associated Press Sunday, November 25, 2007; A17
SYDNEY Nov. 24 -- Conservative Prime Minister John Howard suffered a humiliating defeat Saturday at the hands of the left-leaning opposition, whose leader has promised to immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and withdraw Australia's combat troops from Iraq.
Labor Party head Kevin Rudd's pledges move Australia sharply away from policies that had made Howard one of President Bush's staunchest allies.
Rudd has named global warming as his top priority, and his signing of the Kyoto Protocol will leave the United States as the only industrialized country not to have joined the 1997 pact that set mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases.
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