Published March 14th, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran
Australian Troops to fight
Lets face it, it was pretty much innevitable after aussie troops left for Iraq, that if war broke out, we’d be fighting despite what the government said at the time. So John Howard said yesterday that “We won’t sit on the sidelines”, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s confirmed.
“Alliances are two-way processes and our alliance with the US is no exception. Australians should know there is no nation more important to our long term security than the US.”
Surely we can’t just be crawling to the US on this. Which makes me wonder, what are we getting in return? Its not oil, we’re self-sufficient in oil, so what are we getting?