Well it appears that it’s going from bizarre to mad.
Unsurprisingly, our Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, has leapt to John Howard’s defence, but now a federal Liberal backbencher, Cameron Thompson, has also joined the chorus, saying he is proud of Mr Howard's statement and pulling out of Iraq would herald the greatest disaster since the Rwandan genocide.
"I don't think that that is acceptable for people like you and I who enjoy a comfortable lifestyle," he said.
"To throw people into that kind of abyss is, I think, amoral and I think John Howard is absolutely correct when he says that Barrack Obama's policy is not
just wrong, it is I think fundamentally evil."
Downer defends Howard's Obama attack
Downer defends Howard's Obama attack. 12/02/2007. ABC News Online
Such sanctimony from those who created the abysmal situation in the first place.
The crazy thing is that, as Noahath points out, the US elections won’t be held till November 2008, and the new President won’t be inaugurated until January 2009, which means Senator Obama cannot even put his call to withdraw the troops by March 2008 into effect himself.
So what is Howard going on about?
In all honesty, I think Barack Obama should have focused on what he would do about Iraq when elected, and perhaps speak in terms of adopting the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group.
But I loved his come back to Howard! Indeed, if we were to match the US military presence in Iraq based on the population ratio, we should have at least another 8,000 troops there.
Tethys