Obama attacks the Australians
Barack Obama seems less presidential everyday.
When he's not insulting our troops he's insulting our allies.
“I think it’s flattering that one of George Bush’s allies on the other side of the world started attacking me the day after I announced (my candidacy),” Senator Obama said. I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops in Iraq and my understanding is Mr Howard has deployed 1400. So if he is … to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them to Iraq, otherwise it’s just a bunch of empty rhetoric.”
Sadly, to further illustrate his "leftness", Obama challenged PM Howard to "put up" as many troops as the U.S. has in Iraq, while leading the effort to surrender and pull our own troops out. Only a Democrat could pull that off.
The Australians do not have as many troops in the fight that we do, that's true. But their heroism and service has been no less honorable and no less celebrated. And certainly no less needed.
Thanks Australia!
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***UPDATED***: PM John Howard rocks! This is the kind of leader that we so desperately need in this time of undeniable threat upon our very way of life.
Via Amy Proctor:
"Well I thought, I think the most interesting thing about that is that it didn’t really address the substance of the issue but given the size of this country, we are making a very significant and appropriate contribution and I therefore respond to that criticism in that fashion."
"When you have significant figure in American politics saying that, in effect, America should leave in just over a year, that is picked up around the world, it’s picked up by the terrorists and that was the point I was making yesterday."
I happen to think it is against the security interests of Australia for America to be defeated in Iraq. I think if America is defeated in Iraq that will be catastrophic for the West and it will have tremendously adverse consequences for Australia. And everybody knows that if America leaves Iraq in March of 2008 it can only be in circumstances of defeat, no matter how it is papered over and explained and rationalised. And if America is defeated in Iraq, the West is defeated in the Middle East and that has enormous consequences for terrorism and for the stability of that region, and also for our own region. Now to me, that is far more important than anything else because it affects Australia’s security. You see, apparently it’s alright for people in the Labor Party to regularly criticise the Bush Administration’s policy on Iraq – and they do that almost on a daily basis, they do – and apparently the American alliance can survive an Australian withdrawal from Iraq at a time when America desperately needs support and friends in the Middle East – apparently all of that can be managed – yet my criticism of the policy position of somebody who is not President, and is not even the Democratic candidate for the presidency, that is interfering in American politics and is absolutely to be forbidden. Well I place a greater store on Australia’s national interests than that and I will continue to be critical of policy positions of anybody of consequence that I think might be damaging to those interests."
That, friends, is a leader.
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