Posted by Kevin Bates Thank God for the voices who are increasingly raised in support of a more measured response to the Iraq situation - a situation which really demans deeper analysis and understanding - there are many levels to the US interest in Iraq - the more significant hardly getting an airing. Iraq's oil for instance, the strategic value to the US of having a puppet government in the area, to name just two. These are hardly acknowledged in the current US rhetoric. We pray for peace and that the voices of reason will be heard in our own country. Germany and France, Russia and China are all expressing their opposition - I wonder what our problem is and what our real agenda is too!
on January 27, 2003, 7:22 pm
Australia Day has come and gone and so have our troops. It's hard to imagine that they are there just to put pressure on Iraq or just to have a look around! It's hard to come to terms with Colin Powell's amazing statement that the US has a "sovereign right" to invade Iraq; it's hard to come to terms with our national leadership and their mixed signals about their intentions.
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