India Daily News
Feb. 12, 2007
Barack Obama, one of the leading Democratic candidates for next year's presidential race, received an early and unexpected boost yesterday (Feb 11) when the Australian prime minister, John Howard, criticised his anti-war stance.
The attack by the close ally of President George Bush and vocal supporter of the war in Iraq, came just hours after Mr Obama formally announced in Springfield, Illinois, that he would seek the Democratic nomination.
Breaking the convention that foreign leaders do not interfere in domestic political campaigns, Mr Howard rounded on Mr Obama, who is strongly opposed to the war in Iraq, for demanding that all US troops leave Iraq by March 31 next year.
Mr Howard said:
"I think that will just encourage those who want to completely destabilise and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for an Obama victory," Mr Howard said in a television interview.
"If I were running al-Qaida in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying ... for a victory, not only for Obama but also for the Democrats."
The Illinois senator is a frontrunner, along with Hillary Clinton, for the Democratic nomination. More....
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While I am not to fond of other world leaders criticizing the United States or our elected officials, it is pretty hard to dispute these assertions.
KING
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