Australian PM, 'little' John Howard (so called because he's a short-arse), has hit out against US presidential candidate, Barack Obama, more or less claiming that a vote for Obama is a vote for Osama. This isn't the first time someone's made this odious ad hominem attack on an opponent of the dreadful war in Iraq. Obama gave as good as he got, however, and retorted pretty strongly:
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. I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops on the ground now, and my understanding is Mr Howard has deployed 1,400, so if he is (ready) to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them to Iraq. [BBC News]
Yeah, John. What's the deal with that? Don't you hate terror enough to send more tough Aussie ockers out there? Yer pansy. I'm not sure that the ADF even has 20,000 troops but we'll ignore that for the moment.
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February 12th, 2007 - 14:21
OK. like he said, let's forget about australia sending more troops. Let's completely put that aside. Let's talk about the 1400 troops already there. The aussie military has 0 combat fatalities (1 fatality when some guy accidently shot himself in the head), cause they are not in combat. They are in a token jesture role. Now, if Howard means what he says, then he needs to put the Aussie troops already there in combat. The US is short handed in Bagdhad, so I suggest that would be a good place to go. Remember Howard, it was you who said that winning in Iraq is vital for Australia.
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