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Reply #30 - Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:52pm
 
Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:49pm:
More likely they were having sleepless nights lest their lies got exposed too early into the invasion.


That, or just a brain dead response from you.

I'll go the brain dead respose.

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Reply #31 - Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:56pm
 
FriYAY wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:11pm:
Karnal wrote on Apr 2nd, 2013 at 11:42am:
bambu wrote on Apr 2nd, 2013 at 10:54am:
We have to go with America...the only one capable of saving us.

Wanna blame someone for 'Iraq'?
Blame Washington.


Blame everyone who fell into line, including the media.

It was obvious at the time that Saddam had nothing to do with Sept 11. Blindly following the US into a needless, expensive, and ultimately futile war helps no one.

If more had stood firm in 2003 - particularly Howard and Blair - the US would not be in the debt situation it's in today.

When a friend errs, he doesn't need blind submission, he needs an intervention.



I’m always led to remember Blair’s out going speech as PM.

It puts into perspective the decisions the likes of he and Howard had to make. The sleepless nights, dealing with the head/heart, meetings with supporters of and those opposed to the “war”, the right and wrong thing to do.

It was a far cry from “blindly following” (though I have used those words before in hoping we are more cautious next time).

These people make calls on issues we couldn’t fathom the depth and importance of.



They made calls on issues the majority of their populations didn't want, and then saw their judgement calls fail. There were no WMDs. Saddam had been bluffing all along. And there was no popular support - or reason - to invade Iraq.

Still, the depth and importance of such weighty decisions had been analyzed by M15, the CIA and ASIS. Many senior officers resigned when their reports were ignored, "sexed up" or skewed. Andrew Wilkie is now an MP in his own right.

Presidents and Prime Ministers should not make such calls - they have parliaments, cabinets, departmental directors and multilateral organizations like the UN for this very reason. If they had gone through the right channels, Saddam would still be in Iraq, the US would not be in trillions of debt (but still in debt) and who knows? The strange phenomenon of the Arab Spring may never have happened.

It wasn't a lesson. Governments will do the same again and again.

The only lesson of Iraq is that they always forget the lesson. 
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Re: War in Afghanistan - Mission Accomplished?
Reply #32 - Apr 8th, 2013 at 5:25pm
 
FriYAY wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:52pm:
Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:49pm:
More likely they were having sleepless nights lest their lies got exposed too early into the invasion.


That, or just a brain dead response from you.

I'll go the brain dead respose.

Kudos.



So you still believe the western leaders thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? Typical.

I saw those old combi vans on the news, sitting in the desert, the ones we were told was part of their mobile chemical laboratories........yeah sure they were.
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Reply #33 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 6:17am
 
Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 5:25pm:
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I saw those old combi vans on the news, sitting in the desert, the ones we were told was part of their mobile chemical laboratories........yeah sure they were.


Marconi hydrogen generator trucks (for weather balloons).
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Reply #34 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 8:14am
 
Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 1st, 2013 at 11:02am:
Who's taking bets on how long before the Taliban starts taking over the cities in Afghanistan?

I give them 6-12 months.


2 years max. It's inevitable.

The war in Vietnam was lost because the civilian population were sympathetic to the basic tenets of communist ideology ~ and who could blame them?

Same in Afghanistan, but this time it's loyalty to Islam.

Just the ordinary folk are not outraged when a family kills their daughter for 'allowing' herself to be raped.

Battery acid gets thrown into the face of girls sneaking off to a secret school in one of the back alleys.

Homosexuals and those converting from Islam to Christianity have death fatwas called upon them ~ and the general population believe this to be perfectly just and proper.

There isn't a hope in hell that the Taliban won't take control again. They know they only have to win over - or murder - the village elders in the countryside. Thousands of them.

The message will soon be learnt by everyone that cooperation with the Taliban is better than a personal visit from them to correct your errant attitudes.

Two years max ~ with the idiotic politicians of the Western world pouring zillions of taxpayer dollars into the country as a last resort for resist the inevitable.




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Reply #35 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 10:21am
 
Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 5:25pm:
FriYAY wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:52pm:
Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:49pm:
More likely they were having sleepless nights lest their lies got exposed too early into the invasion.


That, or just a brain dead response from you.

I'll go the brain dead respose.

Kudos.



So you still believe the western leaders thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? Typical.


But we all also know they did have and did use WMD on the Kurds, don’t we.

“The Halabja poison gas attack, also known as Halabja massacre or Bloody Friday, was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988”

We also kow that Iraq refused, for years and years, to comply with useless UN resolutions on allowing in weapons inspections. Plenty of time to shift/hide/destroy any arsenal of WMD.

So while I’ll always agreee that Iraq war was a bad idea and Australia should never have got involved, I’m open minded enough to not think Saddam was some dam saint.

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Reply #36 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 10:28am
 
Karnal wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:56pm:
FriYAY wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:11pm:
Karnal wrote on Apr 2nd, 2013 at 11:42am:
bambu wrote on Apr 2nd, 2013 at 10:54am:
We have to go with America...the only one capable of saving us.

Wanna blame someone for 'Iraq'?
Blame Washington.


Blame everyone who fell into line, including the media.

It was obvious at the time that Saddam had nothing to do with Sept 11. Blindly following the US into a needless, expensive, and ultimately futile war helps no one.

If more had stood firm in 2003 - particularly Howard and Blair - the US would not be in the debt situation it's in today.

When a friend errs, he doesn't need blind submission, he needs an intervention.



I’m always led to remember Blair’s out going speech as PM.

It puts into perspective the decisions the likes of he and Howard had to make. The sleepless nights, dealing with the head/heart, meetings with supporters of and those opposed to the “war”, the right and wrong thing to do.

It was a far cry from “blindly following” (though I have used those words before in hoping we are more cautious next time).

These people make calls on issues we couldn’t fathom the depth and importance of.



They made calls on issues the majority of their populations didn't want, and then saw their judgement calls fail. There were no WMDs. Saddam had been bluffing all along. And there was no popular support - or reason - to invade Iraq.

Still, the depth and importance of such weighty decisions had been analyzed by M15, the CIA and ASIS. Many senior officers resigned when their reports were ignored, "sexed up" or skewed. Andrew Wilkie is now an MP in his own right.

Presidents and Prime Ministers should not make such calls - they have parliaments, cabinets, departmental directors and multilateral organizations like the UN for this very reason. If they had gone through the right channels, Saddam would still be in Iraq, the US would not be in trillions of debt (but still in debt) and who knows? The strange phenomenon of the Arab Spring may never have happened.

It wasn't a lesson. Governments will do the same again and again.

The only lesson of Iraq is that they always forget the lesson. 



Have you seen the Blair speech?

It is interesting to see him talk about being a new PM, and having all these ideas/ideals for his country and then…..people start flying planes into buildings in the US.

Saddam had and used WMD on the Kurds, why does everyone brush over that little fact?

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Reply #37 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 11:11am
 
Ringer wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 5:45am:
What we need is something to take our minds off the mess that is Afghanistan,  how about another war?


Good idea. There's one just around the corner and we might witness it first hand. The yanks have been arriving at "their" bases here by the hordes because they don't want China to take their place as a superpower.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are tragic for the people, but there you go. We have a choice of being ruled by the Jews, the Chinese or the Muslims.
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Reply #38 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 11:56am
 
mantra wrote on Apr 9th, 2013 at 11:11am:
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are tragic for the people, but there you go.


How many civilians did the coalition kill as genuine 'collateral damage' ~ as against how many have been killed as a result of direct and intended slaughter between the sectarian bombers?

For as long as it was America and her allies who were doing the killing, the West's leftwing-majority media kept up a constant barrage of condemnation and abuse, but after the withdrawal, and with the killings still continuing ~ but this time by the Iraqis themselves ~ these self-same media organisations have fallen silent because there's no political capital in condemning these Muslim rock apes. 
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Reply #39 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 12:37pm
 
Lord Herbert wrote on Apr 9th, 2013 at 11:56am:
How many civilians did the coalition kill as genuine 'collateral damage' ~ as against how many have been killed as a result of direct and intended slaughter between the sectarian bombers?

For as long as it was America and her allies who were doing the killing, the West's leftwing-majority media kept up a constant barrage of condemnation and abuse, but after the withdrawal, and with the killings still continuing ~ but this time by the Iraqis themselves ~ these self-same media organisations have fallen silent because there's no political capital in condemning these Muslim rock apes. 


There was an international outcry from both the left and right of politics - not just the left. Yes - they might be killing each other now, but we should have left them alone in the first place to sort out their battles. The Coalition of the Willing only used 9/11 and WMD as an excuse for invading. Both excuses have since been proved as just that. No doubt there would have been less deaths if we hadn't bombed the hell out of them and they would still have some decent infrastructure left, but the people of both nations have so much less now.

You can look at the avalanche of boat people as penance for our involvement.

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Reply #40 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 1:07pm
 
FriYAY wrote on Apr 9th, 2013 at 10:21am:
Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 5:25pm:
FriYAY wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:52pm:
Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 8th, 2013 at 4:49pm:
More likely they were having sleepless nights lest their lies got exposed too early into the invasion.


That, or just a brain dead response from you.

I'll go the brain dead respose.

Kudos.



So you still believe the western leaders thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? Typical.


But we all also know they did have and did use WMD on the Kurds, don’t we.

“The Halabja poison gas attack, also known as Halabja massacre or Bloody Friday, was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988”

We also kow that Iraq refused, for years and years, to comply with useless UN resolutions on allowing in weapons inspections. Plenty of time to shift/hide/destroy any arsenal of WMD.

So while I’ll always agreee that Iraq war was a bad idea and Australia should never have got involved, I’m open minded enough to not think Saddam was some dam saint.



There were No Fly zones in Iraq in the north to protect the kurds and in the south to protect the shia muslims from Saddam.

These no fly zones were setup to stop Saddam killing his Iraqi residents with his air force.

Can any leftist retards say how long were these No Fly Zones in place before Saddam was removed?


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Reply #41 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 1:57pm
 
mantra wrote on Apr 9th, 2013 at 12:37pm:
Yes - they might be killing each other now, but we should have left them alone in the first place to sort out their battles.


Huh? They lived under a Police State dictatorship which had its unmarked mass-graves, its genocidal gassings,
and its official torture chambers.

There was no option for sorting out their differences.

It was only when Western intervention removed the threat of Saddam's firing squads that these medieval religious psychopaths felt free enough to demonstrate just what murderous neanderthals they really are.

It's hardly America's fault that by removing a brutal dictatorship it also removed the rock under which these Islamic cretins had been kept neutralised by Saddam's notorious secret police.   

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The Coalition of the Willing only used 9/11 and WMD as an excuse for invading.


Nonsense.

The only result for America from their invasion has been thousands of their own soldiers killed and wounded; zillions of dollars drained away from the national economy; and imported oil costs being just as expensive as before.

I agree the Americans shouldn't have invaded. Saddam Hussein and his murderous and oppressive regime was exactly what was required to keep those Muslim rock apes under strict control.

As for infrastructure ~ the Iraqis have never been so lucky. America, Britain and a dozen other nations have been pouring money into Iraq for the past 10 years to finance an army of contractors, materials and equipment for building a lot more than was there before the bombing.

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You can look at the avalanche of boat people as penance for our involvement.


The penance is at the hands of our own government who stupidly grant refugee status to these fraudulent country-shoppers.

Within a couple of years of securing their Australian residency papers ~ they fly back to Iraq to spend holidays with their relatives and friends.

There's not a genuine refugee amongst the whole damn lot of them.

Even when they riot in our detention centres and trash these to the tune of a million dollars ~ our pathetic politicians and judiciary grant them permission to stay in Australia.
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Reply #42 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 2:09pm
 
FriYAY wrote on Apr 9th, 2013 at 10:28am:
Have you seen the Blair speech?

It is interesting to see him talk about being a new PM, and having all these ideas/ideals for his country and then…..people start flying planes into buildings in the US.

Saddam had and used WMD on the Kurds, why does everyone brush over that little fact?



Tony Blair was the PM of Britain. A few Saudi and British nationals fly planes into the US in 2001, and Bush and Blair want to invade Iraq because Saddam used gas on the Kurds in 1980?

It is always interesting to hear Blair talk, but his judgement on Iraq was wrong. He spent all his political capital encouraging his party to support the invasion of Iraq, and used up his popularity with the British people, who came to see him as a neo-con stooge, not a strong, idealistic leader. He then wasted his good standing with Europe and the UN, and for what?

Blair's failings in Iraq now define his legacy. His vision for a strong, multilateral security force to defeat tyrants was destroyed by his alliance with the US in a pointless, imperialistic war. This is Blair's real failing - not so much the failure of Iraq, but the failure of his vision, which could have been historic.

Just think - the League of Nations and the UN both failed to establish a security force that could establish peace around the world, enforce demilitarization, and prevent world war. After Serbia, and then Rwanda, there was a window of opportunity and political will. This is what drove Blair, and many in the US and UN at the end of the cold war.

If Blair had listened to his own party, his own people, and the UN, he may well have made some progress on this vision. Instead, he followed the agenda of naked US aggression and self-interest. In the end, of course, it wasn't the politics that did him in, but the military failure.

For Blair, Iraq was meant to be the start of a new international "coalition of the willing". This is an age-old European project, going back to the end of the Napoleonic wars and, following WWI, the establishment of the League of Nations. The League failed to get the US to join, and it failed to establish an international security force. Ultimately, it failed to prevent the rise of the Nazis. With the establishment of the EU, the end of the Cold War, the success of the new international court in Brussels, and Clinton's eventual willingness to engage in Serbia, the signs were right.

But then Blair went and joined Bush. He believed, of course, that this favour would be quid-pro-quo, but he was used in the US's own game. When Iraq turned nasty, everyone realized how futile such a project of international peacekeeping through war could really get - and how long. Twelve years on and we're still in Afghanistan.

Blair had a noble objective, but history - and the world - was against him. He should have listened.

Now, Europe is floundering, and the world is on an isolationist path again. Blair - and the world - missed the opportunity of creating a viable international peacekeeping force.

And this is the real failure of Iraq.
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Reply #43 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 2:36pm
 
Lord Herbert wrote on Apr 9th, 2013 at 1:57pm:
It was only when Western intervention removed the threat of Saddam's firing squads that these medieval religious psychopaths felt free enough to demonstrate just what murderous neanderthals they really are.

It's hardly America's fault that by removing a brutal dictatorship it also removed the rock under which these Islamic cretins had been kept neutralised by Saddam's notorious secret police.
   

Prior to UN intervention - Iraq was an advanced civilisation. Since the Gulf war it has been left in tatters and sanctions have ensured the unnecessary death of thousands of children. When they started to rebuild - we invaded them again on the pretext of saving them. They haven't recovered.

You just admitted that the "democracy" imposed on them has failed. Saddam might have been a dictator, but since his slaughter - these so called murderous neanderthals are no longer on a tight leash and can do what they please without restraint. For a country with so much wealth in oil reserves, today they don't even have access to basic amenities.

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The Coalition of the Willing only used 9/11 and WMD as an excuse for invading.


Nonsense.

The only result for America from their invasion has been thousands of their own soldiers killed and wounded; zillions of dollars drained away from the national economy; and imported oil costs being just as expensive as before.

I agree the Americans shouldn't have invaded. Saddam Hussein and his murderous and oppressive regime was exactly what was required to keep those Muslim rock apes under strict control.

As for infrastructure ~ the Iraqis have never been so lucky. America, Britain and a dozen other nations have been pouring money into Iraq for the past 10 years to finance an army of contractors, materials and equipment for building a lot more than was there before the bombing
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What we do know that most of that money ended up in the hands of the unscrupulous. To this very day - hospitals are unfinished and ill equipped. The same goes for schools. Drinking water and food is scarce and disease and violence is rampant.

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The penance is at the hands of our own government who stupidly grant refugee status to these fraudulent country-shoppers.

Within a couple of years of securing their Australian residency papers ~ they fly back to Iraq to spend holidays with their relatives and friends.


Really! I wasn't aware that Iraq had become a holiday destination, but I can believe they would fly back sometimes to check whether family members are still alive.

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There's not a genuine refugee amongst the whole damn lot of them.

Even when they riot in our detention centres and trash these to the tune of a million dollars ~ our pathetic politicians and judiciary grant them permission to stay in Australia.


Of course some of them are ratbags - but the majority of them are genuine asylum seekers. We can thank Bush, Howard & Co. for this predicament. Do you really believe that Abbott will disobey his Trilateral masters and stop the boats? Howard might have had some success in defying UN conventions, but then he had George Bush on his side and "terrorism" was the slogan of the day.

Abbott will have to get permission off Obama before he starts shooting at the boats and that's not likely to happen.


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Reply #44 - Apr 9th, 2013 at 2:51pm
 
More imperialistic militarism on behalf of fascist western corporatism

Invade, thieve resources, set up military bases, support dictators, resist grass roots democratic movements and democracy in general

....the standard US mantra - global fascism via the Corporate slave vehicle.

DO AS YOU ARE TOLD PEOPLE or suffer the consequences

Even the great Obama corporate fake fascist clown puppet will hunt you down with his drones and illegal assassinations

We live in a global tyranny
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