Irfan Yusuf is a lawyer, award-winning author, commentator and humorist. His comic memoir "Once Were Radicals: My Years As A Teenage Islamo-fascist" was published in May 2009. He currently lives in Sydney where he is completing his doctorate.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
VIDEO/COMMENT: John Howard's war of liberation ...
According to his recently released memoirs, John Howard says that the Australian Labor Party was absolutely wrong to oppose the invasion and war in Iraq. Why?
It's all about alliances. Human beings don't seem to matter. I'm not aware of a single occasion where Howard expressed even a word of sympathy for Iraqi victims. Indeed, any Iraqi victim who managed to escape and make it to our shores was thrown into detention.
As for the ones who couldn't escape ...
Mr Howard should remember some of the families mentioned in this clip next time he goes for a drive with Janette.
John Howard says it was "inconceivable" that Australia would not back the US in Iraq ...
The former Liberal prime minister charges the Labor Party with lacking conviction, hiding behind the UN and outsourcing its foreign policy to the Russians and French on the Security Council.
It's all about alliances. Human beings don't seem to matter. I'm not aware of a single occasion where Howard expressed even a word of sympathy for Iraqi victims. Indeed, any Iraqi victim who managed to escape and make it to our shores was thrown into detention.
As for the ones who couldn't escape ...
Mr Howard should remember some of the families mentioned in this clip next time he goes for a drive with Janette.
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