As always, Tim Dunlop in his blog, Road to Surfdom, is right on the money.....
"Prime Minister John Howard says there is no need for a special inquiry into offensive internet images of Australian soldiers in Iraq.
….”We should leave it to the military to deal with this. The military is quite capable of dealing with this without a whole lot of gratuitous advice from me or other people in the political arena,” he said.
HOW’S-MY-VALUES UPDATE: Can I also point what a craven little prawn this overrated nipple on the soul of the body politic is. While representatives from the Australian Defence Force are making unequivocal statements condemning this sort of thing — “There is no place in the ADF for members who behave in this way,” Air Chief Marshal Houston told reporters — the prime minature is warning everyone else not to “get in a lather” or “overreact.”
This willingness to defend bad behaviour is just an insult to the rest of the forces who do the right thing. Air Chief Marshall Houston knows that; Mr Howard doesn’t."
"Prime Minister John Howard says there is no need for a special inquiry into offensive internet images of Australian soldiers in Iraq.
….”We should leave it to the military to deal with this. The military is quite capable of dealing with this without a whole lot of gratuitous advice from me or other people in the political arena,” he said.
HOW’S-MY-VALUES UPDATE: Can I also point what a craven little prawn this overrated nipple on the soul of the body politic is. While representatives from the Australian Defence Force are making unequivocal statements condemning this sort of thing — “There is no place in the ADF for members who behave in this way,” Air Chief Marshal Houston told reporters — the prime minature is warning everyone else not to “get in a lather” or “overreact.”
This willingness to defend bad behaviour is just an insult to the rest of the forces who do the right thing. Air Chief Marshall Houston knows that; Mr Howard doesn’t."
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