Earlier today I posted on some harsh words for Senator Barrack Obama and his fellow Democrats issued by Australian Prime Minister John Howard.  Prime Minister Howard said, essentially, that the terrorists would be praying for Obama and the Democrats to win.

Obama responded by telling Howard that if he wants to “fight the good fight” in Iraq he’d better send in more troops.

“I think it’s flattering that one of George Bush’s allies on the other side of the world started attacking me the day after I announced,” Mr Obama told reporters in the mid-western US state of Iowa.

“I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops in Iraq, and my understanding is Mr Howard has deployed 1400, so if he is ... to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them to Iraq.

“Otherwise it’s just a bunch of empty rhetoric.”

That’s an odd statement coming from someone who claims that the war in Iraq must end.  Obama claims that for Howard to “fight the good fight” in Iraq he must send in more troops.  Yet Obama feels we should withdraw our own troops.

Talk about mixed messages, but that’s hardly surprising coming from a Democrat.  The members of that political party are more worried about winning elections than doing what needs to be done in Iraq.  Which is why they all support the easy way out.  Give up.  Go home.  Change the subject from the middle east to universal health care and plan on putting terrorism on the back burner until the next time a bunch of zealots manage to knock over a couple of skyscrapers.