I have heard this morning that once again we are increasing our commitment to the Iraq conflict and that John Howard is discussing with the British of taking over the command of the City of Basra. This is all wrong for a whole number of reasons.
One, are we or are we not simply putting a bigger target on ourselves for terrorists to aim at? I am against the whole Iraq mess from Day One but if we “have” to be there, why cant we simply do it quietly without seeking the big deployments? Basra, for those of you who can remember, was the big port city on the Persian Gulf that required a siege to take and cost many American lives to take. Lets just say the locals aren’t too happy about us being there. If you think we’re just a small force in amongst the bigger British and American contingents, well why don’t you take that argument up with the Spanish!
Secondly, are we not supposed to be pulling out of Iraq? Are we not supposed to be handing the country back to the local elected government? Why do we need to add troops when we are supposed to be subtracting them? When are we ending this thing? I don’t see how being committed to handing over Iraq back to its people is accelerated by adding more troops.
And thirdly, the main reason I oppose the addition of troops is because our Prime Minister said in his election promises we would NOT add more troops. Well, he has done it twice now. What is the value of a promise when you break it twice? Wake up Australia! Get rid of this ultra-conservative, xenophobic, right wing ASAP!
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It would be a lot easier for people to vote out howard if :
1) People were not up to their eyeballs in mortgage debt. The average debt for Australians at the moment stands at $38k for every man, woman and child - due to the massive increase in cost of home ownership since the Howard govt came in. People don't like Howard on Social issues, but they're scared shitless of interest rates - and that buys many people's vote. The IR reforms threatening job security may change that though...
2) We have an absolute IDIOT in Bob Carr ruining Labour's reputation in NSW. He's been a bigger mongrel than Howard has been and there's little to no chance Labour will run NSW after next election because of it.
In short - I have no faith in either Liberal OR Labour representatives at the moment and I've switched to voting for minor parties - like the Greens.
We can debate that they may or may not do a good job in the top roles, but let's face it - you can hardly do worse.
Howard and Bob Carr - the both of them have conduct that borders between criminal and complete negligence - they're both as bad as the other IMHO...
It's just a shame Australians are just too conservative and selfish to take a chance on a party that might actually do some good and actually act FOR the people... rather than big business and other pollies.
*sigh*
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