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| Aussie voters want troops to stay in Iraq: PM |
| 2004-10-13 |
| Australians might be divided over the Iraq war, but the election result proved most backed plans to keep troops there, Prime Minister John Howard said today. Mr Howard said that while he did not believe Iraq was a major election issue, most people supported his view that Australia should stay in Iraq until the job was done. The opposition also failed to turn the Iraq war into a major issue, despite its pledge to bring Australian troops home from Iraq by Christmas if it won government, he said. "There was divided opinion in Australia on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq," Mr Howard told CNN. "But the overwhelming majority of Australians believe very strongly that having gone there, we should stay and finish the job. ... "They rejected the notion of the premature withdrawal of our forces until their job has been completed. ... "That is, of course, a view that I put very strongly." Mr Howard's comments were backed by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who said in the Asian Wall Street Journal that Australians had made clear foreign policy choices at last Saturday's election. In an article for the newspaper, Mr Downer wrote that most Australians realised it would be folly for Australia to withdraw its troops from Iraq now just as the country was on the brink of democracy. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #10 Prime Minister John Howard is a true ally in the war to counter the jihadists. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-13 11:12:45 PM |
| #9 Give them enough beer, Ed, and they'll fold up nicely. Give them a little more, and they won't even notice the heat ;-) Besides, JFM, if we pull them directly across the Pacific, think how many tropical islands they'll sweep up along the way. We don't want to be greedy; after all, we already have Hawaii. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-13 6:34:29 PM |
| #8 Wouldn't it be shorter to bore through and pull Australia through the earth's core? |
| Posted by: ed 2004-10-13 6:01:09 PM |
| #7 Pull on your own rope. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-13 5:57:24 PM |
| #6 "Time to develop a closer alliance with Australia " How about pulling from a rope, until Australia is at under a hundred miles from California? Sorry when I saw "closer alliance" I couldn't resist. |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-10-13 4:39:23 PM |
| #5 Thank god for the Aussies. And for the other Asian democracies. Time to develop a closer alliance with Australia and start involving exploring ways to involve the Indian military as well. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-13 3:15:05 PM |
| #4 No better friends in a fight. |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-10-13 1:05:27 PM |
| #3 1942 (hat tip: Little Green Footballs) |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-13 11:41:57 AM |
| #2 I always loved the Aussies.... |
| Posted by: jawa 2004-10-13 11:18:08 AM |
| #1 Beautiful--thank God the Aussies demonstrated the majority feel the same way as Howard and aren't head-in-the-sand Antiwar types that think this terrorism "nuisance" will just blow away if we ignore it long enough--up until the last non-Islamofascist is beheaded. |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-10-13 10:20:18 AM |