According to this
Guardian report Abbott has ‘played down the possibility that
Australia’s renewed involvement in Iraq would increase the chance of terror
plots against Australian targets. He said Australia was targeted in Bali in
2002 before any involvement in the previous Iraq war’.
This is utter nonsense. All Abbott is
attempting here is to mimic John Howard’s ridiculous attempt to hoodwink the
Australian people over the reasons for the Bali bombings.
Today’s terror threats – if, indeed, there
really are any – are as a direct result of this government’s plans to send
Australian forces to Islamic lands for the purpose of killing so-called ‘Islamic’
militants. And, while the Bali bombings did happen some six months before
Howard joined the US in invading and destroying Iraq in March 2003, the
bombings occurred because the Indonesian militants that were responsible for
the bombings knew, just like all Australians knew, that, despite all of Howards
worthless denials at the time about not having made a decision about going to
Iraq, that there was never any doubt that he would. Howard
used the Bali bombings for his own political purposes and may even have
manipulated circumstances to have allowed the outrage to occur.
For Abbott to infer that the present threat
level isn’t as a response to Abbott’s plans to enjoin the US in their fight
against so-called ‘Islamist’ militants is downright garbage. And, in light of
the way Howard used the Bali bombings to suit his political agenda, one has to
wonder to what extent threats today in Australia haven’t been contrived to suit
Abbott’s political agenda.
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