Letter to the Prime Minister of Australia
This is what I sent in an email to John Howard today:
I wish to say that I am appalled at the stance taken by the Australian Government to Iraq. I have carefully read the Prime Minister's speech to the press club, and in it I find no convincing reason for an attack on Iraq.
I believe an invasion of Iraq without UN approval will lead to increased acts of terrorism, and contrary to the Prime Minister's stated aims, places Australians at even greater risk, and will lead to great instability in the middle east. Furthermore I believe the Prime Minister's position on this issue to be morally wrong.
The supposed concerns over the terrible way Saddam Hussein has treated the Iraqi people are totally disingenuous. If there were any real concern, action should have been taken when the events were happening. Instead, the very people in the USA who now feign concern for the people of Iraq (Cheney, Rumsfeld) were doing business with this dictator, and doing nothing about the atrocities.
The Australian Government's so-called concern is not consistent with its stand on refugees, where you are happy to send people back to the place "where they gouge out childrens eyes" - further evidence of the government's hypocrisy.
I am proud of Australia and feel lucky and privileged to have been born here - but at this point in history, I am ashamed to be part of a country whose government has put us in with the coalition of the stupid.
This is what I sent in an email to John Howard today:
I wish to say that I am appalled at the stance taken by the Australian Government to Iraq. I have carefully read the Prime Minister's speech to the press club, and in it I find no convincing reason for an attack on Iraq.
I believe an invasion of Iraq without UN approval will lead to increased acts of terrorism, and contrary to the Prime Minister's stated aims, places Australians at even greater risk, and will lead to great instability in the middle east. Furthermore I believe the Prime Minister's position on this issue to be morally wrong.
The supposed concerns over the terrible way Saddam Hussein has treated the Iraqi people are totally disingenuous. If there were any real concern, action should have been taken when the events were happening. Instead, the very people in the USA who now feign concern for the people of Iraq (Cheney, Rumsfeld) were doing business with this dictator, and doing nothing about the atrocities.
The Australian Government's so-called concern is not consistent with its stand on refugees, where you are happy to send people back to the place "where they gouge out childrens eyes" - further evidence of the government's hypocrisy.
I am proud of Australia and feel lucky and privileged to have been born here - but at this point in history, I am ashamed to be part of a country whose government has put us in with the coalition of the stupid.
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