Time to clean that green scum off the surface of Australia's political pond!
Our very own Baghdad Bob, Bob Brown 'Dear Leader' of The Greens (how embarrassing for the country: the loony left comes to parliament)has taken out front page ads in the SMH condemning the war, and has vomited doom and gloom every step of the war.
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The hot air that clouds Bob's view
Two months ago, in stating the Australian Greens' absolute opposition to Australian involvement in the liberation of the Iraqi people, he told the Senate that more than 100,000 children under the age of five were expected to die (they haven't), that 950,000 Iraqis would become refugees (wrong again), that 1,230,000 would be left highly vulnerable to a pandemic (no sign of that yet), that two million would be internally displaced (Baghdad's parks seem to have fewer homeless than Sydney's) and that two million children and a million Iraqi mothers would be in urgent need of food aid (in a country of 23 million, of whom more than 60 per cent were in need of food hand-outs under Saddam Hussein, this prediction seems really off track). Continuing to outline his vision of doom, he said 5,400,000 would be in urgent need of supplies and 18 million would be in urgent need of services such as water and sewage treatment to protect their health. "That is all providing there is not the use of nuclear weapons," he noted with his usual gift for hysterical hyberbole.
If, as Senator Brown said recently, "Saddam Hussein was contained before this war," why did Saad Ahmed, a 54-year-old retired English teacher tell reporters earlier this week : "We have been waiting for you for a long time. We are now happier than you. You are victorious as far as the war is concerned, but we are victorious in life. We have been living, not as human beings, for more than 30 years." If Senator Brown's Greens had their way, poor old Saad Ahmed would have been looking to live out the rest of his life under a "contained" Saddam instead of kissing British servicemen in the streets of Basra.
And what of the hundreds of children â children â who were released by US Marines from a special prison in northeast Baghdad where they had been held because they had refused to joined the youth branch of the Ba'ath party. Even Scott Ritter, the anti-war former UN arms inspector, recipient of Arab cash and pursuer of young girls, is appalled by the state of Iraq's children's prisons, telling Time magazine last September: "The prison in question is at the General Security Services headquarters, which was inspected by my team in January, 1998. It appeared to be a prison for children â toddlers up to pre-adolescents â whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein. "It was a horrific scene. Actually I'm not going to describe what I saw there because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq and right now I'm waging peace."
Ritter knew that he had witnessed horrific scenes that would provide ammunition to humanitarians anxious to liberate the Iraqi people â the very people Senator Brown wanted to see remain subject to the evil regime of the "contained" Saddam. Yesterday, despite the overwhelming evidence that the prosecution of the war has been swift and effective with minimal civilian casualties, Senator Brown was still at it, condemning the Government and calling for an independent international inquiry into the "killing and maiming of innocent men, women and children". "I think now it's going extremely badly," he said of the war. The evidence, again, gives the lie to that statement.
Just like Baghdad Bob, I christen you... Baghdad Bob! I call on all Australians to forthwith refer to him only as "Baghdad Bob". Bob Brown: exposed and left high and dry just like the rest of the Coalition of the Wrong. 
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