Iraq Pullout Now Would Be "Madness"

"It would be madness."
"Let us make sure that now we are winning in Iraq, we do win (and) we don't snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory by... stupidity."

November 21, 2007 - 4:49PM
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has again taken aim at Labor's pledge to pull combat troops out of Iraq, saying it would be "political stupidity" to do it anytime soon.

Downer said the US-led coalition was finally "winning" the war in Iraq. To withdraw troops when progress was now being made would be "madness", he said.

"I feel that we are at long last, making real progress in Iraq," Downer told reporters in Singapore, where he is attending the East Asia Summit.

"There is a very substantial decline in the level of violence in Iraq.

"The last thing we want to do - just at the point of making real progress - ... is a sudden change, a 180 degree change of policy on Iraq, which would only lead to a regression back to the violence we had before.

"It would be madness. Let us make sure that now we are winning in Iraq, we do win (and) we don't snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory by political stupidity."

Labor plans to withdraw the 500 combat troops Australia has in southern Iraq if it wins government, leaving around 1,000 still in Iraq and the Middle East.

Meanwhile on the other end of the earth, Jihad Joe Biden, Wild Bill Richardson, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and 99.999% of the dhimmicrats are indeed that stupid and indeed that "mad".
Over here though, we just call it "Bush Derangement Disorder" to be polite.