Pixelated Semantics

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Tilting towards bullshit

Senior military figures in recent days have been openly stating their opposition to the government's behaviour over Irak. The Courier Mail reports (retired) Major General Alan Stretton (who served as chief of staff of the Australian force in Vietnam from 1969-70) has said Iraq was already going the way of Vietnam.

"You would have noticed the Prime Minister use a new word ... tilting. That is the same as the graduated response in Vietnam ... In other words you just put a bit more in to stop it tilting the wrong way. It will end up exactly the same way. The whole thing is flawed strategy [...] This talk about fighting for democracy, that is absolute, to use a phrase, bullshit"

Man of Steel denies the analogy between Iraq and Vietnam, but when a senior commander from the earlier war speaks of that history it is clearly from personal knowledge, unlike the unconvincing semantic grease from Howard, who thinks that the historical facts about Iraq and Vietnam present "totally different situations". Howard also thought that WMD was a good enough reason for invading Irak before changing the tune to advancing democracy when no WMD were found. Yesterday the leader of Australia's military land forces said the decision to double the number of troops in Iraq "came as a shock" - highlighting that political imperatives rather than military decide government strategies for Irak.

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