Things in
the news today that annoy me #2
Eminent Australians, including former Prime Minister Malcolm
Fraser and former defence secretary Paul Barratt, are calling for an inquiry
into Australia’s decisions to join the 2003 invasion of Iraq, following similar
inquiries in the UK and Netherlands.
Hurrah!
"I do not believe that any one person in Australia
should have the power to take this country to war, especially when due process
has not been followed,” Mr Fraser said. Amen to that, I say. As Malcolm said,
going to war is a serious business. There's no need to elaborate on that point.
The information that determined a John Howard Liberal Party to follow the US-led
invasion – those phantom weapons of mass destruction – was proven to be fabricated,
and was even considered dubious at the time. And yet we still went to war on
that basis.
We were peddled a pack of lies in order to support a war
that likely had more to do with oil or other American interests than protecting
the western world from Iraq.
Just another example of how it’s time we made our
politicians more accountable for the decisions they make. Otherwise, we have no
business touting our democratic superiority. Otherwise, we are just equally as
much victims of our government’s propaganda as are the people of the countries we
supposedly aspire to liberate.
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