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Feb. 13th, 2007 06:43 pmAustralian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson, on Lateline last night:
Ok. Here's a really, really, really short little rant. Say the US-led forces pull out tomorrow. There will undoubtedly be carnage in Iraq - but the side that will come out on top are the Shia. (There's way, way more of them than Sunni.) Now, unless you've been sunning yourself on a rock instead of DOING YOUR FUCKING JOB AS DEFENCE MINISTER, you'd realise that Al Qaeda are FUCKING SUNNI. That is, if everyone pulled out and the worst case happened, the Al Qaeda types would get killed. Some fucking victory.
And I'm not going to even touch on his hideously offensive attempt to slur anyone who opposes the current policy of "fuck it - we have no other plans, let's just keep doing what we've been doing and hope it gets better" as somehow handing victory "to the terrorists". I was thinking that the victory was handed "to the terrorists" by the fucking clowns who botched the whole invasion and occupation. You know, the ones fuckstick Nelson works for.
update I forgot to link to the transcript. It's here on the ABC website, and it's a work of beauty...
Jones kicks Nelson around the room like a legless puppy. If Nelson wasn't such a slippery douche, you could feel sorry for him. Once again, we see why Lateline is the best TV journalism in the country.
TONY JONES: I take it you've studied Senator Obama's plan for troop withdrawal, have you?
BRENDAN NELSON: I haven't seen the detail of the plan. I've had it reported to me and I've seen a summary of that plan, as I understand it, Tony.
Jones then goes on to lay out in painful detail how Obama's plan is in fact the same one as the Iraq Study Group report proposed. The ISG report that the Australian government liked. Nelson starts running in tiny little circles of talking points, unable to complete a coherent thought of his own.
And you have to read it for the final point he asks Nelson. Talk about brutal.
Well certainly those people, whether they be in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia or in any other part of the world, people who are arguing that we withdraw from Iraq, to abandon the Iraqi people, to ignore the requests of the democratically elected Iraqi Government - those who argue that we should do that before the Iraqi security forces are in a position to essentially look after their own security, we will by definition hand victory to those al Qaeda and other terrorist networks who see it as important.
Ok. Here's a really, really, really short little rant. Say the US-led forces pull out tomorrow. There will undoubtedly be carnage in Iraq - but the side that will come out on top are the Shia. (There's way, way more of them than Sunni.) Now, unless you've been sunning yourself on a rock instead of DOING YOUR FUCKING JOB AS DEFENCE MINISTER, you'd realise that Al Qaeda are FUCKING SUNNI. That is, if everyone pulled out and the worst case happened, the Al Qaeda types would get killed. Some fucking victory.
And I'm not going to even touch on his hideously offensive attempt to slur anyone who opposes the current policy of "fuck it - we have no other plans, let's just keep doing what we've been doing and hope it gets better" as somehow handing victory "to the terrorists". I was thinking that the victory was handed "to the terrorists" by the fucking clowns who botched the whole invasion and occupation. You know, the ones fuckstick Nelson works for.
update I forgot to link to the transcript. It's here on the ABC website, and it's a work of beauty...
Jones kicks Nelson around the room like a legless puppy. If Nelson wasn't such a slippery douche, you could feel sorry for him. Once again, we see why Lateline is the best TV journalism in the country.
TONY JONES: I take it you've studied Senator Obama's plan for troop withdrawal, have you?
BRENDAN NELSON: I haven't seen the detail of the plan. I've had it reported to me and I've seen a summary of that plan, as I understand it, Tony.
Jones then goes on to lay out in painful detail how Obama's plan is in fact the same one as the Iraq Study Group report proposed. The ISG report that the Australian government liked. Nelson starts running in tiny little circles of talking points, unable to complete a coherent thought of his own.
And you have to read it for the final point he asks Nelson. Talk about brutal.
