Rachel's Soap Box

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Thursday, 16 August 2012

Iraq War Inquiry?

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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