Australia's Light Brigade Charges Into Iraq

Into the Valley of Death rode the Australian five hundred, on
direct orders from New York. Next will be the US Cavalry,
charging into occupied Palestine to save the Jews.
Copyright Joe Vialls, 20 April 2005




As most readers will have noticed, every nation on earth excluding America and Britain is withdrawing its illegal invasion forces from sovereign Iraq, and has refused all further support for Wall Street's criminal "Coalition of the Willing". Well, almost every other nation on earth except obsequious Australia. On 17 April 2005, at the behest of New York, Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his Government ordered an extra 500 Australian troops to travel to Iraq to join an illegal invasion they already knew had failed, thereby placing these men and women in clear and present danger on the orders of a foreign power. Australia's deployment of 500 extra troops to Iraq this week, was so low-key that most of the nation didn't even notice them leaving. Rest assured this was not an accident. Tradition normally requires that all military personnel going overseas first be bombarded with long boring speeches by grandstanding politicians, invariably against a backdrop of fighter jets or heavy armor, thereby hopefully reflecting a macho military image on the limp-wristed politicians in question.

Let us be honest here, the politicians really need the macho reflection, because without it they are nothing. Though in the distant past our leaders were selected by their own people on the basis of personal charisma and courage on the battlefield, they are nowadays selected on the basis of their personal willingness to prostitute themselves for a bunch of moneylenders in New York City.

You only have to look for yourself: America is ruled by George W. Bush, an intellectually challenged rich kid, who managed to avoid being killed in Vietnam by joining (and then deserting) the Air National Guard. Britain is ruled by Tony Blair, a cross-eyed traitor who continually strives to abolish the Monarchy, because he personally wants to be King and live in Buckingham palace. Australia? Well now, Australia is ruled by John Winston Howard ("President Winston" to his close friends), who, in his permanent delusional state, already believes he is King of the Southern Hemisphere.

Long after all three dictators are finally led to the gallows for high treason and war crimes, history will acknowledge Iraq as the final deadly political and military trap designed to draw them onto the guns of those they had continually abused, tortured and murdered since 1990. Indeed, even longer than that, if you also include Britain's mustard gassing of the Iraqis back in the 1920s - the first 'police' use of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'.

"The RAF was first ordered to Iraq to quell Arab and Kurdish and Arab uprisings, to protect recently discovered oil reserves, to guard Jewish settlers in Palestine and to keep Turkey at bay. Some mission, yet it had already proved itself an effective imperial police force in both Afghanistan and Somaliland (today's Somalia) in 1919-20. British and US forces have been back regularly to bomb these hubs of recalcitrance ever since...

Iraqi bombing raids, "increased after 1923 when Squadron Leader Arthur Harris - the future hammer of Hamburg and Dresden, whose statue stands in Fleet Street in London today, took command of 45 Squadron. Adding bomb-racks to Vickers Vernon troop car riers, Harris more or less invented the heavy bomber as well as night "terror" raids. Harris did not use gas himself - though the RAF had employed mustard gas against Bolshevik troops in 1919, while the army had gassed Iraqi rebels in 1920 'with excellent moral effect'.

"Churchill was particularly keen on chemical weapons, suggesting they be used 'against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment'. He dismissed objections as 'unreasonable'. 'I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes - [to] spread a lively terror.' In today's terms, 'the Arab' needed to be shocked and awed. A good gassing might well do the job."

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