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Aussie senator calls Bush
'dunderhead'
AFP
Wednesday September 5, 2007
An outspoken Australian politician has called US President George
W. Bush a 'dunderhead' for sending troops to Iraq.
Bush, whose five-day visit has placed Australia's biggest city
Sydney under a security lockdown, spent the day in talks with
Prime Minister John Howard.
Meanwhile, Greens Party leader Senator Bob Brown said it was
wrong to think that Australia's security depended on maintaining
a military presence in Iraq.
Bush told a press conference in Sydney earlier Wednesday that
it was important for Australia's security that 'we hang in there
with the Iraqis and help them'.
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"He would say that, because when it comes to Australia's
interests, he's a dunderhead and Iraq has made us less safe,"
Brown told reporters on Wednesday.
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, 'we're withdrawing from Iraq and we are an independent country
and we are on our own two feet, we're not deputy sheriff,'"
Brown said.
Brown, who is yet to receive a response to a written request
to meet with Bush during his visit, said, "Australia's got
a wonderful regard for the United States, but not for George Bush."
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