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Australia and America have a somewhat similar history. We were both colonies of the United Kingdom, and we both gained our independence just over 200 years ago. From the few Aussies I have met, both people have a similar view of their freedoms and the world.

Australia has committed troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. So it comes as no surprise to me when Aussie PM John Howard lambastes the US Congress for passing a bill that mandates the withdrawal of troops from the war on terror.

Howard, a staunch Bush supporter who has also committed troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, said the vote by the US Congress was “probably not helpful to the general situation in Iraq.”"I think it is wrong, and I don’t think it is doing anything other than giving great comfort and encouragement to Al-Qaeda and the insurgency in Iraq,” Howard said.

“They are looking at all this, they read newspapers, they see it on television and they say, ‘The American domestic resolve is weakening, therefore we should maintain our resolve.’

“If there is a perception of an America defeat in Iraq, that will leave the whole of the Middle East in great turmoil and will be an enormous victory for terrorism.”

When are the Dems going to realize that pulling out is giving up? When they go on TV – and there is no ‘national’ TV anymore, it is all global these days – when they go on global TV and announce that the US has lost the war in Iraq. What do they think that does to the enemy? Do they think that Al-Qaida is going to be energized because of statements such as these? Do they think that our own military will say ‘hoorah! We lost, we ROCK!’.

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