Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Gov't-Opposition Advocate Troops To Afghanistan?

No More War | 16.06.2005 12:13 | Anti-militarism | London | World

A new analysis of the Australian community on illegal and degrading wars on sovereign nations, from the influential No War Strategic Policy Institute, has found only 14 percent of Australians supported military assistance to the war on human rights, while 58 percent disagreed.

No More Wars!
No More Wars!


AUSTRALIA: Australia's federal imperialists are again considering sending troops back to Afghanistan by early next year, allegedly to help stabilise the country and continue the war on terrorism. At least that's what we're led to believe.

And there is simply no Opposition to the plan by Labor, the party that is supposed to by representing people who oppose war. And if not why not?

Are they're going to leave Opposition to War up to the minor political parties who really have no say whatsoever in the two party preferred system of government in this country? Or has Labor simply acknowledged that now HoWARd has all the power in the Senate that they have no choice but to opt for the very same policy or lose any form of credibility as a federal political party in this country.

Saving face not good enough!

Other sources say this move by the government and the Opposition (working in tandem) has been well thought out and it's really all about quelling the opposition to the U.S.-backed Afghan puppet government and the enforced rule of President Hamid Karzai's failed attempt at democracy, which has branched out once again into all out war in the failed state.

But why would the Australian government want to again wage a war on the other side of the world on the failed democratic ideals? And why don't' we get the truth instead of this rhetoric about the need to help 'stabilise' and continued war on terror which simply means slaughter any opposition to the puppet government!

The Coalition of the Killing sent troops after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in an earlier war? Then an alleged democratic government was purported to have been elected by the people...So what other good reason does the Australian Government and Opposition have now, besides another imperial invasion to quell an uprising to the alleged democracy?

I know! To finally track down Osama (where have you bin), Bin Laden, similar to the very same excuse used before and no different to the threat alleged by the other demon in Iraq 'ABRACADABRA' Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who incidentally cannot be found either. Even though there have been numerous reports of alleged close sightings, contacts with his alleged lieutenants and even his laptop computer and also some hearsay about him being wounded.

All they're doing is trying to help bolster support to attack freedom fighters in Afghanistan who don't agree with Hamid Karzai's rule? People who really believe they have no say in how their country is run, other than the US shadow standing besides its choice of government - opposed to a great many of the indigenous people who live there.

The HoWARd government was considering the new troop deployment, which could be a force of between 250 and 700, along with allegedly more civil aid for Afghanistan's reconstruction? A decision would be made in July.

Pity Labor doesn't come to the rescue though? No more war in Afghanistan…No?

The Federal Opposition 'the well paid losers' are now advocating sending Australian troops back to Afghanistan too along side the government.

"The opposition is prepared to engage in a discussion with the government on this matter, if the government wants to have it," (the well paid loser) Labor's leader Kim Beazley told reporters.

He says a suggestion that Australian troops may be sent back to Afghanistan is long overdue and reflects the Government's failure to devote enough resources to the area? But maybe he should move to Afghanistan and take up residence as well?

If he thinks Australia should have any a roll to play in enforcing the new failed US puppet Karzai Government. And as if there is no opposition to war in this country at all, either here, or abroad in the International Community - then who is going to argue their views if it's not the Opposition in a two party preferred system of government? In a so called democracy?

If the U.S.-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai's failed democracy in Afghanistan is anything to go by then the US led war on Iraq may also go on indefinitely and even more troops may have to eventually be sent there?

The deployment would come at a busy time for Australia's defence forces, which have about 1,700 personnel deployed an overseas operations, including about 1,400 in and around Iraq.

The National Security Committee is said to be considering an option to send more troops and civil aid to the country, with Britain and the United States indicating they would welcome a further commitment from Australia but behind it all is the US need to quell opposition to its rule.

Australia sent special forces troops and air support to the U.S.-led war on terrorism in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, but withdrew them after the Afghan Taliban fell late that same year.

U.S.-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai allegedly won a presidential election last October, and parliamentary elections are due to be held in the country on Sept. 18.

The United States commands an 18,300-strong international force, most of whom are American, fighting resistance and militants in Afghanistan and hunting their leaders, allegedly including al Qaeda leader (where have you bin all my life), Osama bin Laden, blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks.

More than 70 U.S. soldiers have been killed in action and more than 400 wounded in Afghanistan since 2001, while U.S. and Afghan government figures show about 150 freedom fighters have been killed this year alone.

A new analysis of the Australian community on illegal and degrading wars on sovereign nations, from the influential No War Strategic Policy Institute, has found only 14 percent of Australians supported military assistance to the war on human rights, while 58 percent disagreed.

Labor's foreign affairs spokesman, Kevin Rudd, (another well paid loser) says the Opposition has been stressing the importance of Afghanistan in the fight against terrorism for several years and it is time the Government redefined its focus.

"Afghanistan remains the centre for the war against terrorism," he said.

"Osama bin Laden is alive and well, Al Qaeda is alive and well and their base continues to be the eastern part of Afghanistan.

"If we're serious about the war against terrorism, that's still where the effort is to be concentrated."

Perhaps he too could set up residence down the street in Kabul from Mr Beazley and only then could he confirm the importance of imperialism in the quality of his life that would no doubt be sadly diminished in what would otherwise be in the midst of a bloody war.

No more war, bring the troops home and let's start the peace process! If the Opposition doesn't oppose war who does? We the People!

Related:

Zarqawi tape 'magic'

Zarqawi, whom the US has declared is their 'demon' in Iraq, is used as an excuse for the killing over 100,000 innocent men women and children, simply described as 'Collateral Damage' by the US and its allies, who failed to count the dead.

More:  http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/40279.php

'Zarqawi' figment of the US imagination, used time, and time again

But you've got to believe that? And he also allegedly said he was going to blow the whole world to bits, just by winking his eye? Therefore the US and its war criminal mates can go on killing and killing and killing.

More:  http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/39760.php

The REAL Iraq War (Warning: Explicit images of Violence)

Discussion of the 'anti-war' position is just so abstract, don't you think. I think it would help if instead of engaging in philosophical discussions about war, the tax payer would actually be a party to war, just as they expect their kids to do. So let's take a good look.

More:  http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/82324.php

Pentagon chiefs cleared over prisoner abuse

Some human rights groups believe those techniques violate the Geneva Convention and are tantamount to torture, and they have labelled the report a whitewash. But if it were the dogs that were mistreating the detainees how come there hasn't been an independent animal investigation to find out if the dogs were in breach of the rules?

More:  http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306455.html

Noble Cause Torture?

The Opposition had signalled it would support the inquiry but after internal discussions, Labor says it does not think a Senate probe is an appropriate forum to investigate the allegations. Then what is the appropriate forum?

More:  http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/88987.php

WAR ON TERROR, WAR ON HUMAN RIGHTS: AMNESTY

As the Australian media focuses on Douglas Wood, the Australian currently held hostage in Iraq, concerned about unfair deprivation of liberty, the plight of three other Australians, David Hicks, Ahmed Aziz Rafiq and Mamdouh Habib, has been largely forgotten.

More:  http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/front.php3?article_id=55474&group=webcast









No More War
- e-mail: gkable@hotmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/publik15/opinions3

Comments

Display the following comment

  1. Ever wondered why ? — Just a thought
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech