John Howard should have apologized to Indigenous Australians for wrongs of Australian Governments of decades gone by <br />But the sorry word for him just proved too hard to say so he left the chance pass him by, <br />John Howard should have signed the Kyoto agreement on climate change but he did not like that idea <br />Though his Environment Minister begged him to do so he choose for to ignore his plea <br />Whether it was out of stubborness or lack of foresight or out of respect for George W Bush his good mate <br />What he has refused to do his successor Kevin Rudd has done one might say he has left it too late <br />John Howard committed Australian troops for to fight in Iraq to George W he could not say no <br />Though Iraq now more troubled and so much worse off than it was a decade ago <br />Kevin Rudd is about to withdraw Aussie troops from Iraq as he said he would do all along <br />As P M Howard successfully played wedge politics for many years but in the end for him it all went wrong, <br />John Howard was Prime Minister for more than eleven years one might say he did have his day <br />He'd like to retain power 'til the day that he die but the voters on that had their say <br />The voters for years who had voted him in eventually him did unseat <br />To the younger and glamorous Maxine McKew he met with a humbling defeat.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/john-howard-should-have/
