Posted by Kevin Bates on February 1, 2003, 9:56 am, in reply to "Australians all let us......." I wonder how much impotent anger is behind all this - after George's Daddy failed to put Saddam out of business, and the US failed to nail the perpetrators of September 11 - so they have to prove themselves yet again - and yet again one fears that their cause is futile. Vietnam is only a recent memory - but its lessons still have not been learnt. --Previous Message--
The weight of popular opinion and the weight of considered wisdom still points strongly against a war in Iraq - the Australian Financial Review points out today that there is no crisis other than the one manufactured by the Bush Administration.
: 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.
: 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!
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