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Leftist Aussie politician calls Bush a `dunderhead'

US President George W. Bush was a "dunderhead" for thinking that sending troops to Iraq was making the world a safer place, an outspoken Australian politician said yesterday.

Bush, whose five-day visit has placed Australia's biggest city, Sydney, under a security lockdown, spent the day in talks with Australian Prime Minister John Howard and lunching with troops on the harbor.

While the US president was being afforded red carpet treatment, Greens Party leader Senator Bob Brown said it was wrong to think that Australia's security depended on maintaining a military presence in Iraq.

Bush told a press conference in Sydney earlier yesterday that it was important for Australia's security that "we hang in there with the Iraqis and help them."

"He would say that, because when it comes to Australia's interests, he's a dunderhead and Iraq has made us less safe," Brown said.

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