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| Downer slams Labor over Iraq pullout plan |
| 2006-10-17 |
| The Foreign Minister has strongly condemned the federal Opposition over its promise to remove Australian troops from Iraq. The Labor leader, Kim Beazley, says if he wins the election, he would immediately talk to the United States about how quickly Australian forces could be replaced in Iraq. The Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, told Parliament it is a weak and gutless policy. "The leader of the Opposition's proposition is that this great country would pullout its forces and ask others to do the job for us," he said. "[He] would go to our allies, the Americans, and the morally bankrupt way the leader of the Opposition proposes, and say to the Americans 'find someone else to do this job we are too weak to continue with it'." The Opposition has hit back at Mr Downer. Labor's foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd calls the Iraq war the single greatest foreign policy disaster since the Vietnam War. He has questioned how Mr Downer can claim to be proud of the Government's role in Iraq. "Mr Downer therefore, I presume, is proud of the fact that |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #1 The Left whines about the cost, in Oz or everywhere else. They have no fricking idea how much it would cost later on if we are not willing to spend peanuts at this time, and the result may not be guaranteed later when we have to squeeze out the last penny and the last drop of blood. the fact that 100 Iraqi civilians are killed each day in Iraq Internecine fighting. A feature, not a bug. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-10-17 06:28 |