Posted on 02/11/2007 8:04:47 PM PST by naturalman1975
US presidential candidate Barack Obama has told Prime Minister John Howard to put up or shut up. Mr Obama, speaking at a packed press conference in Iowa today, said if MrHoward was concerned about the situation in Iraq he should send 20,000 Australian troops to the strife-torn nation.
The Illinois senator added that if Mr Howard did not send the troops, then the prime minister's attack on the Democrat presidential hopeful's Iraq policy was "empty rhetoric''.
"I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops on the ground now and my understanding is that Mr Howard has deployed 1400,''Mr Obama, who next year could become the first African American to be elected US president, said.
"So, if he's ginned up to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them up to Iraq.
"Otherwise, it's just a bunch of empty rhetoric.''
Mr Howard sparked the war of words yesterday when he took the extraordinary step of declaring that he hoped Mr Obama did not become president of the US, and that his election would be disastrous for the war on terrorism.
Mr Howard said Mr Obama's plan to pull America's combat brigades out of Iraq by March 31, 2008, was a strategy that would "destabilise and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists''.
"If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory, not only for Obama but also for the Democrats,'' Mr Howard said.
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Classic Lefty vomit, a takeoff on the ever popular:
"If you think this war is such a good idea, why don't you sign up and get over there!"
Kinda hard to tell them apart, Phil ............... FRegards
Good one!
I acknowledge and apologize for my error. Everything north of Oklahoma is a bit confusing to me, and I have some trouble with Oklahoma.
This is the much vaunted dip[lomacy of the Dems in action. He's such a joke. He will be on SNL in a week.
Me thinks you answered your own question. Now, we can be as ignorant if we wait for the MSM even to report this whole thing. And that`s sad.
No, just believes what the MSM is saying. He is their darling of the moment, but the MSM is very fickle.
I think Biden spoke a little too quickly when he said that Obama was articulate. Obama may have an affirmative action degree from Harvard, but he talks like Jesse Jackson - and says stupid things dressed up with pretty words.
Isn't it sad that we have a media that works to aid our enemies instead of this country. They should be the guardian of our freedoms, yet they choose to support the Democrats and Socialists, Dictators, Terrorists and anyone else who doesn't support conservatism.
When Obama is the one making the decisions about how many troops are needed, and where they need to be, THEN he can start lecturing world leaders about their response to the war. Until then, he needs to concentrate on HIS job, not that of a foreign leader.
"So if he's GINNED up to fight the good fight."
Obama apparently failed Diplomacy 101.
The Prime Minister and the Aussies have always been our friends and allies throughout the years.
Can't even imagine what type of response Obama would give [if he were President] and had to deal/negotiate with someone like Chavez who is always poking a stick at the United States.
If this is how Obama responds now under little pressure..No telling how he would respond under stressful conditions in the Oval Office.
Ridicule, call names to divert attention from total lack of intellectual honesty.
Obama headed the Harvard Law Review while he was there, which means he was considered by his peers to be among the elite... Obama is not only articulate, he is intelligent-- despite being well to the left of even Hillary, he's convinced a great many people that he's a "moderate" who can "heal the divide". The fact of it is, the Left tends to have many of the smartest people on its side--- dreams of planned economies and the like often flatter their notions of themselves, as Thomas Sowell has noted.
If OZ got rid of gun control, a place I would love to consider moving to besides New Zealand...
The Prophet Obama has a lot to learn about economies of scale, too. Australia has a little over 20 million people. The USA, 300 million. That they are participating at all in the war against Islamo-facism is a salute to the intestinal fortitude of the Australian people!
Still lurking in the mailroom, hey conservativejohn77? I received another FReepmail from you today in spite of the fact that your account was banned or suspended on February 8th after you were busted. I see your comment on this thread is the only one you have posted since signing up again. Perhaps you are too busy writing private FReep-mail?
Has anyone else received any new FReepmail from conservativejohn77, now known as Conservativejohn78?
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