Thursday, July 01, 2004
Latham: still no clue
Australian Labor Opposition leader Mark Latham still doesn't get it, now latching onto comments yesterday by the Australian Defence Force Chief, General Peter Cosgrove, who is reported to have said that ending the violence is Iraq depends on reducing the number of foreign troops and getting enough professionally trained Iraqi forces onto the streets.
Said Latham, who still supports the idea of withdrawing the Australian troops out of Iraq by Christmas:
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Said Latham, who still supports the idea of withdrawing the Australian troops out of Iraq by Christmas:
"I think he is right in saying that and it backs up the view that I've been putting for quite some time. A lot of the violence in Iraq is obviously uprising against the reality or perception of foreign occupation and if you reduce or eliminate that foreign occupation you eliminate a lot of the violence."Actually Mark, a lot of the violence in Iraq is obviously uprising against the reality or perception that Iraq might become a normal, decent, democratic country, instead of either a Baathist or an Islamofascist basketcase. There's no "uprising" anymore either in Fallujah or in the Shia south; there are only thugs beheading hostages and setting off bombs outside Iraqi police stations and Iraqi political parties headquarters.
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