'With the president of the
United States arriving two
days early there's
approximately $2 million per
day in extra policing costs
for Mr Bush's early arrival,on
top of the 330 million it cost
to stage ,this prelection
strage for john howard to look
good, in the beat up to the
federal electionMr Howard
apologised to the people
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'With the president of the
United States arriving two
days early there's
approximately $2 million per
day in extra policing costs
for Mr Bush's early arrival,on
top of the 330 million it cost
to stage ,this prelection
strage for john howard to look
good, in the beat up to the
federal electionMr Howard
apologised to the people of
Sydney for the inconvenience -
including a fence around the
CBD and traffic-stopping
motorcades for all leaders -
but stressed it wasn't the
fault of either the federal or
NSW government, or even Mr
Bush.'It's the fault of the
violent demonstrators,' he
said keeping to his mantra
that blames all evil on others
yet all good to him.'I just
say to the people of Sydney,
I'm sorry about the
inconvenience but it's not the
fault of anybody other than
those who want to practice
violence amongst the ranks of
the demonstrators.'for john a
generous admitance generally
protesters are peacefull, with
out the plants put there to
discredit the causeJust days
from the start of Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation summit,
Mr Howard outlined his
priorities when the 21 leaders
gather on the weekend of
September 8 and 9.Climate
change will be the flagship
issue of the summit and Mr
Howard wants APEC leaders to
agree to ''aspirational''
targets to cut aspire to cut
[but never actually commit to
cut greenhouse gas emissions
and ways to 'aspire' to
achieve their goals.'I would
like to see APEC leaders agree
for the first time that a new
international agreement should
include an agreed
''aspiration'' to aspire to
reduce the long-term
aspirational goal for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions,' Mr
Howard said.'I hope APEC
leaders can also agree on some
practical measures that
complement such an
aspirational goal.'But he
stressed any targets would be
'aspirational' and assured
developing nations, such as
China and Indonesia, that the
developed world was not trying
to deprive them of
opportunities for growth.He
sees APEC as a crucial
forerunner to a United Nations
climate change meeting in Bali
in December.'The key task in
Sydney is to give political
aspirational direction to the
shape of a future framework
for climate change that is
truly global,' Mr Howard
said.However, Opposition
Leader Kevin Rudd believes any
targets need to be concrete to
make them meaningful.'(There)
must be an agreement on the
need for concrete targets for
global greenhouse gas emission
reductions,' Mr Rudd said.'Put
simply, if APEC can't get its
act together on one of the
biggest challenges of our day
in climate change, then it has
no future.'

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