07-05-2007, 10:34 PM
posted by Damian Lataan
In a sensational speech today Australiaââ¬â¢s Prime Minister John Howard revealed to the world that the war against Iraq was about oil.
For years Iââ¬â¢ve been calling Howard a Lying Tyrant but it hasnââ¬â¢t stopped the dumb and gullible from continuing to vote for him and his warmongering cronies in the Liberal Party. Howard now shows himself once again to be a liar and a fraudster as he tells an audience of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra in a major foreign policy speech that the war against Iraq was indeed about securing oil.
This is in direct contradiction to the lies that Howard told the Australian people just a few weeks before the invasion and plundering of Iraq which has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people and displaced millions more from their homes when he told Jon Faine of Radio 3LO on 14 February 2003:
ââ¬ÅWell can I deal with the question of oil. I mean this suggestion that America wants to do what it does because it wants to get hold of Iraqi oil is just completely wrong, it's completely dishonest, it's not based on any reality.ââ¬Â
A week later on 21 February 2003 he was lying again. A caller at Neil Mitchellââ¬â¢s radio show at Radio 3AW said: ââ¬ÅI think the point is it's all about oil, it's about US domination and it's about reshaping the Middle East to suit Israelââ¬Â, to which Howard responded, lying, of course, ââ¬ÅWell it's not about any of those things. It's about the danger to Australia if countries like Iraq continue to have chemical and biological weapons, and those weapons get into the hands of international terrorists. That fundamentally is what this is about.ââ¬Â
But, of course, the repurcussions of Howards remarks donââ¬â¢t just affect the Howard government in Australia; it also reflects on Bush and Blair who are just as complicit in the lies.
http://lataan.blogspot.com/2007/07/austr...s-lie.html
In a sensational speech today Australiaââ¬â¢s Prime Minister John Howard revealed to the world that the war against Iraq was about oil.
For years Iââ¬â¢ve been calling Howard a Lying Tyrant but it hasnââ¬â¢t stopped the dumb and gullible from continuing to vote for him and his warmongering cronies in the Liberal Party. Howard now shows himself once again to be a liar and a fraudster as he tells an audience of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra in a major foreign policy speech that the war against Iraq was indeed about securing oil.
This is in direct contradiction to the lies that Howard told the Australian people just a few weeks before the invasion and plundering of Iraq which has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people and displaced millions more from their homes when he told Jon Faine of Radio 3LO on 14 February 2003:
ââ¬ÅWell can I deal with the question of oil. I mean this suggestion that America wants to do what it does because it wants to get hold of Iraqi oil is just completely wrong, it's completely dishonest, it's not based on any reality.ââ¬Â
A week later on 21 February 2003 he was lying again. A caller at Neil Mitchellââ¬â¢s radio show at Radio 3AW said: ââ¬ÅI think the point is it's all about oil, it's about US domination and it's about reshaping the Middle East to suit Israelââ¬Â, to which Howard responded, lying, of course, ââ¬ÅWell it's not about any of those things. It's about the danger to Australia if countries like Iraq continue to have chemical and biological weapons, and those weapons get into the hands of international terrorists. That fundamentally is what this is about.ââ¬Â
But, of course, the repurcussions of Howards remarks donââ¬â¢t just affect the Howard government in Australia; it also reflects on Bush and Blair who are just as complicit in the lies.
http://lataan.blogspot.com/2007/07/austr...s-lie.html