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Let’s learn from the mess-in-potamia

The hawks were wrong about every aspect of Iraq, so why on earth should we still listen to them?

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

What a mess Iraq is! And how dangerously close Tony Abbott has come to compounding Australia’s contribution to it with his loose and ignorant talk about sending in Australian forces to help the United States ‘save’ the Maliki regime and prevent Iraq becoming a ‘terrorist state’.

Much of the current tribal and religious slaughter in Iraq and Syria originated in the artificial boundaries created a century ago by three great powers.

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Alison and Richard Broinowski, former Australian diplomats, are members of the Campaign for an Iraq War Inquiry.

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