[Askan Nightbringer]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Especially the Australians. The way your country treated refugees and immigrants from Iraq after the Last war was not all that kind. Interring them on an island while their fate was determined (should I say predetermined) by the courts. So it is pretty sure that Australia didn’t care much about their fate, at least not enough to offer them a place to live in freedom.

Refugees and immigrants after the Last war? You mean refugees everyday. On one hand the Australian government says Saddam leads a brutal and repressive regime, on the other we send Iraqi refugees home because their case for asylum was not good enough. I am so disgusted with it that I get sick in the stomach. I march, I protest, I write to the papers, I email political parties and I scorn anyone who accepts this inhumane treatment of refugees.
Just because I'm Australian doesn't mean I have to support my governement when it is clearly wrong.

Also, you stated a figure of 80% against the war. Time to put up or shut up, where dod you get your numbers, The Iraqi FREE press?

Well I pulled those numbers out of the air, just as a rough guestimate. My sources are usually the Sydney Morning Herald, the UK Guardian, the Jakarta Post and I even occasionally watch that stupid NBC Today show that screens here at about 1am. But Mephisto is correct, the evidence is eveywhere, most notably the UN Security Council at the moment.

On a more serious note, we should all remember that France has been no friend to the third world. They still maintain a colonial empire, and are often a supplier of arms for regional conflicts. I have no doubt that we will find evidence of French handy work when we disarm Iraq.

Well all the permanent members of the Security Council are very guilty when its comes to arming bastards. Its hard to forget that Powell's picture of a "Terrorist Poison and Chemical Factory" was a British built one and that Saddam got various cultures of bacteria, including anthrax, from the US in the 80s. Basically what was given to the Iraqis in the 80s is now used as a justification for war by the same people who gave him the nasty toys in the first place.

All this hypocrisy is driving me mad.

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