NotWal said...
Yes. There are some things that are black and white and crystal clear and other things shrouded in fog and confusion.
The causes and responsibility are clear. The solution is ... well there is no way to undo the damage. That little girls family isn't going to come back. The solution lies in the realms of picking the best from a bunch of more or less inadequate options. Our "friends" seem to be married to the idea that if they can establish "democracy" then they can withdraw with "honour" - the goebelistic c***s.
The truth is we will withdraw. Those of us who are decent will be more or less fraught with guilt. Most of us wont give a rats ass. Some of us will say "We should have stayed. We would have won" as if winning was the point. We will probably give them some aid, but not so much that it will put us out in the slightest.
Evil doesn't come with horns and a tail. It comes with an avuncular smile an a promise to make us wealthy and comfortable.
Couldn't have put it better...
It is true that a lot of well intentioned armed forces (and volunteers) are in these hot spots, the facts do remain though that in Iraq they are an
invasion force (does anyone remember Vietnam here) that has entered under a false pretense of riding the valient white horse to the rescue (getting rid of those world threatening WMD thingies-remember those?) and ridding the world of an evil do-er killing and torturing (you know like in Abhu Garib) his own people.. you know like that poor girl and her family that lived in relative safety and had access to education, food and amenities etc... I think most people (on bothe sides of the fence) do know. It just depends how much you can ignore in your focus on a mortgage/boat/SUV etc etc etc
Here is another fact. It was pure lies on behalf of the govt (and the opposition by complacency and lack of alternatives in case they lost votes - which they did anyway???) that convinced anyone of any reasons to go in... Oil is simply it. Like global warming I think everyone knows they reality and it is a little bit hard to swallow and fess up to.
As for media bias. It is very real.
Think about this... the current govt are attempting to place advertising on the only broadcaster that does not have to cower to the mighty corporate $$$. Poor old SBS used to be free to say what they meant now they are siezed my the advertising shorties.. The ABC will be next... that will be goodbye to 75yrs of holding the govt of the day (of either persuasion) to account. Is that safe? I don't think so.
I truly am not comfy with either major party for the record.. I despise what the Libs have done to this country, and the greedy, xenophobic attitudes they have fostered over the past decade (in a time that we could have been generous to our schools/hospitals/neighbours) but I definately couldn't have voted Labour (so i voted independant and green) in the last couple of elections because the ALP -and Beasly in particular - were a spineless rabble. That has changed with Rudd and others and so should we now I reckon.
