2008-05-19 Obama's Iraq challenge: debate me

2008-05-19 \Barack Obama\2008 US presidential race\2008-05-15 Bush speech at Knesset http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23718648-5013948,00.html Obama's Iraq challenge: debate me &ldquo;Until now, Barack Obama's attacks on John McCain have invariably been preceded with an honouring of the Arizona senator's military service and his status as a "true American hero" for the five years he spent as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. .. But the courtesy went missing last week as Obama and McCain had their first serious down-and-dirty scrap over foreign policy and national security. .. The impetus was George W. Bush's controversial speech to the Israeli parliament, in which he said people advocating negotiations with "terrorists and radicals" were deluded and were promoting "the false comfort of appeasement".&rdquo;   