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Topic: Australia won't punish Singapore over hanging: PM |
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| Caesar | Post; Australia won't punish Singapore over hanging: PMCANBERRA/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia will not punish Singapore over the planned execution of an Australian drug smuggler, Prime Minister John Howard said on Thursday ahead of protests around the country to oppose the December 2 hanging. Read more... |
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | nah screw that lets punish them. next time our cricket team plays thiers its no holds barred...... wait.... do they even have a cricket team seriously, what a stupid statement, what would we do?
__________________ If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power. Author: Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith Source: Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, Aug. 4, 1914 |
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| Centurion | Exactly what on earth could Howard do to punish them.
__________________ "Even if I wished to surrender to you - and I don't - I am commanding Australian's who would cut my throat if I accepted your Terms" Colonel C Hore, Siege of Elands River, 1900 If You want to See the Future, Read a History Book |
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