Lest we forget!
It sickens me the way Howard has so skilfully hijacked our war heritage and turned it into a jingoistic backdrop for our present ill-conceived and disastrous invasion of Iraq in support of the neo-con war on terror. I do not wish to publicly honour the Flag or the National Anthem while Howard abuses it in such a base, exploitive way for nefarious ends against our national interest.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. Lest we forget.
And let’s not forget that single-handedly, John Winston Howard has done more to undermine the Australian values that my parent’s generation believed in and fought for than any other person, and it’s time to vote him out, for the sake of the future of Australia.
In Australian history it has been conservative parties that have gotten us involved in wars protecting the interests of the rich and powerful of other nations. It has always fallen on the Labor Party to get us out of the resulting mess. Fisher and Billy Hughes in WWI, Curtin in WWII, Whitlam in Vietnam. It’s time for Kevin Rudd to get us out of the War on Terror.
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Posted: by Slim April 24th, 2007 under Politics, Australia, Culture.
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Comment from phil
Time: April 25, 2007, 11:22 am
This is our family’s first Anzac Day without the old man. He always reminded anyone who would listen that “Lest we forget”, taken from Kipling’s Recessional, was a lament for loss of Empire, not the nationalistic crap that Howard has so skillfully manipulated. For that reason he never joined the RSL which of course (mis)appropriated it first.
Comment from Ronald Raygun
Time: April 25, 2007, 6:15 pm
I was having a discussion with a few friends about Anzac Day and one of them said he has the utmost respect for those who fight for our freedom. Another friend replied saying he had the utmost sympathy for those who signed up to fight for freedom but ended up going to Iraq or Afghanistan.
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