When you follow Bush so closely, your country will kick you out of office:

Kevin Rudd’s Labor Party won Australia’s election, ending John Howard’s 11-year rule after promising to tackle climate change, restore workers’ bargaining power and withdraw Australian troops from Iraq.

Labor won 83 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives, gaining 23 seats from 2004, according to Australian Broadcasting Corp. projections. The Liberal-National coalition has 58 seats, with two independents and seven still undecided, ABC said.

Add this to the news from yesterday that Poland’s new Prime Minister is saying all his troops will be out within the next year, and we are left with a coalition of the dwindling. Amazing how something like this happens on the other side of the world, and yet it should leave a big empty feeling in the White House. Bush is a plague on other world leaders, and their best chance of viability is to stay the hell away from him and denounce his actions.