And that is not necessarily to say that the Democrats are on the side of al Qaeda – merely that their positions on Iraq and the War on Terror coincide with the best interest of that terrorist organization.

THE one thing no one is saying about Prime Minister John Howard's remarks is they are obviously right. Asked about US Senator Barack Hussein Obama's plan to withdraw all US forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008, Howard replied: "If I were running al-Qa'ida in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and pray as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama, but also for the Democrats."

Certainly al-Qa'ida agrees. After the November 2006 elections handed control of the US Congress to the anti-war Democrats, al-Qa'ida's leader in Iraq gloated in an audio-taped message: "The American people have taken a step in the right path to come out of their predicament, they voted for a level of reason."

Abu Omar al-Baghdad, who heads an al-Qa'ida umbrella group, made the terror group's latest demand for allied withdrawal on February 2: "We order you to withdraw your forces immediately. But the withdrawal must be via troop transport trucks and passenger planes whereby each soldier is allowed to carry his own weapon only. They may not withdraw any of the heavy military equipment, and the military bases must be handed over to the mujahidin of the Islamic state, and the duration of the withdrawal may not exceed a month."

So Obama's position and that of al-Qa'ida's are virtually identical, except for the departure date.

I know many in the DemocratICK Party take offense at the notion that they encourage the terrorists by calling for a withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. The reality is, however, that such rhetoric DOES encourage our enemies. And if you have a presidential candidate whose platform on Iraq is substantively identical to that of the terrorists, then it is not unreasonable to state, as the Australian Prime Minister did, that his election (and that of his supporters) would be welcomed by and hoped for by those terrorists. Whether Howard should have stated it in the way he did is an entirely different question.

Now IÂ’ll let you decide whether such the convergence of the platforms of al-Qaeda and Barack Obama constitutes sufficient reason to oppose his candidacy for office. But I would hope that it does give my fellow citizens pause.

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