Jorg Haider is Dead

[Louis VI the Fat]

PanzerJaeger, rather than adressing your post point-by-point, I'll share this:

Austria, of course, had nothing to fear from a European political boycott. Because, as a reward, Haider was supplied cheap oil from Israel's mortal enemies: Arab dictatorships. All Haider had to do was buddy up with his friends, the anti-Semitists and the anti-Americans of this world.

Controversial Austrian politician Joerg Haider has caused a stir by arranging petrol prices some 12% lower than the national average in the province where he is governor.

Mr Haider has declined to specify where he acquired the petrol, but political commentators in Austria are linking the cheap oil purchase with Mr Haider's recent meeting with Libyan President, Muammar Gaddafi.

No wonder Haider was enduringly popular with his province's hard-right electorate. The double whammy of supporting anti-American terrorism and thereby guaranteeing favourable oil prices for his province did the trick.

Of course, it is no wonder that Haider and his close personal friends Gadaffi and Saddam got along so well. Each shared an intense hatred of their mortal enemies Israel and the United States. And based their foreign political goals on the destruction of both states.
I am sorry to report that I do not take kindly to people who fanatically hate America.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Austria's Freedom Party has defended far-right politician Joerg Haider's meeting in Baghdad with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who used the occasion to urge Europe to distance itself from the United States.

The party said Mr Haider's trip to the Iraqi capital was a "courageous" humanitarian initiative designed to supplement the activities of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, although a ministry spokesman indicated his department had not been fully informed of the mission.

Speaking next to Mr Haider on Tuesday, the Iraqi president launched into a scathing attack on the US - and urged Washington to consider why the terrorist attacks of 11 September had occurred in America, and not in Europe.


Correspondents say the trip appears likely to cause some embarrassment among members of the conservative People's Party, with whom the Freedom Party sits in the Vienna government.


Iraq has also been seeking to improve its ties with the outside world in the face of renewed US military threats. President Hussein said during his meeting with Mr Haider that he hoped to develop relations with Austria, and strengthen contacts between his own ruling Baath party and the Freedom Party. Freedom Party delegates have in the past travelled to Iraq on "fact-finding" missions, returning with reports on the humanitarian situation in the country.

Mr Haider has also personally nurtured ties in the Middle East. Last November he travelled to Iran and Syria, and was recently seen in Vienna with the son of Libya leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Did I mention yet that for years Haider had a close, enduring and 'special relationship' with the homosexual son of Gadaffi?

EMFM: German link for you, that talks about the implications of Haider and outing him as homosexual.