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Poo-poo pants Oz politician calls Bush a 'dunderhead'
US President George W Bush was a dunderhead for thinking that sending troops to Iraq was making the world a safer place, an outspoken Australian politician said on Wednesday. Bush, whose five-day visit has placed Australias biggest city Sydney under a security lockdown, spent the day in talks with Prime Minister John Howard and lunching with troops on the harbour. While the US president was afforded the red carpet treatment, Greens Party leader Senator Bob Brown said it was wrong to think that Australias security depended on maintaining a military presence in Iraq. The Greens leader, who was frogmarched out of Parliament House in Canberra in 2003 when he interrupted an address by Bush, said Australia should never have joined the US-led Iraq war. What John Howard should have been saying to George Bush is, were withdrawing from Iraq and we are an independent country and we are on our own two feet, were not deputy sheriff, Brown said. Posted by: Fred 2007-09-06 |
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