The Downside of Democracy
Bob Brown accuses Howard and Downer of knowing about the Iraqi prisoner saga in January and in the time honoured tradition of left wing politics calls for an inquiry that will never happen but in the meantime some people will be left with the impression that Howard and Downer have known all along.
Mud sticks.
Who needs evidence. Just stand up and utter anything that comes to mind and some of it will stick.
But he said his accusations could never be proved unless there was an inquiry into when the government became aware of the mistreatment.
Accusation by suggested inquiry.
He goes on to suggest Australian troops may have involved by boldly stating;
…an inquiry would also find out if Australian troops were involved in the abuse.No one, anywhere, in any newspaper anywhere in the world have mentioned Australian troops being involved and don’t you think that if there had been even a suggestion of this, that the media would have been attacking Howard from all sides? When Churchill said ‘Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried’ he must have been talking about having to put up with people like Bob Brown because clearly the greatest downside of Democracy are the ‘Bob Browns’ and compliant media. There is a lot of comment on the web including Slats quoting a letter full of commonsense, Andrew Bolt says We’re not that sorry and Chrenkoff says ‘Bush made me do it’ All worth reading.
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I am starting to wonder whether there is a lowest depth that Bob Brown will not sink in his never ending search for relevance (or a news bite).
There has NEVER been a suggestion by anybody, including the usual suspects, that Australians were involved in any mis-treatment of Iraqi prisoners.
By sly innuendo, the raised eyebrow, the insinuation he knows all, Brown demonstrates his hatred of the military and his willingness to attack our soldiers who are duty bound not to respond to his weasel like statements.
Who in their right mind would cast a vote in favour of this germ?
Mmm,
I don’t know if anybody else has mentioned it, but the ‘torture’ endured by the Iraqi criminals seems remarkably like Resistance to Interrogation training commonly endured by a wide variety of Aussie diggers over the last few decades. It doesn’t make it right, but it does make me angry at the media’s self righteous zealotry, and their utter abrogation of responsibility in the Berg atrocity.
As for Queen of the Tree Pixies, Pete, he’s a dog, pure and simple. With a lousy forty thousand votes, the press loves him not because of his democratic relevance, but rather for the reliable supply of drooling stupidity that fountains from his pin-like head.