Hail to the Chief!

At the NATO's summit in Bucharest yesterday, cameras witnessed the very weird way Kevin Rudd the Australian prime minister saluted G.W Bush (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsdAMEZMric)

John Pilger wrote an article on the News Statesman(6/03/2008), called "Australia's hidden empire".From my experience of backpacking around Australia for a year and half, I found the article very interesting with hard truths about Aboriginal Australia but also very severe towards Australia itself and its new Prime Minister.
Kevin Rudd the labour prime minister has been a fierce critic of the Iraq war.When Howard said that Al Qaida would be happy if the Democrats won the presidential election, Rudd gave a brilliant speech at Canberra' parliament.
Thanks to him Australia has just ratified Kyoto's agreements. He apologized to the stolen generation with a knee on the floor. He has a very different approach on foreign policy than Howard, does not bash the EU and acknowledges the importance of the security council:

"Whether it was the debate over the Iraq war, whether it's the consideration of particular actions against the Government of Iran, whether it's other matters, this is the critical decision-making body of the United Nations."( Sydney Morning Herald,April 5th 2008)

John Howard was called or was "appointed" by W the "Sheriff of Asia". ( By the way he called Sarkozy his"little friend" and said that he was the "latest incarnation of Elvis (Presley of course!), I also do not forget the Yo Blair! of W at the G-8 summit in St Petersburg last year).

I am going to plagiarise a bit John; the way Rudd has saluted George W., well the new sheriff of Asia has just pledged allegiance to the Chief!