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Age journalist backs Saddam and calls for Australian troops to mutiny
Gerard Jackson
Terry Lane, columnist for the Sunday Age, called on Australian troops to mutiny saying that doing their "duty or obeying an order [in Iraq] is no excuse for committing a crime" (Protest is not only right, it is a right 30/3).
Lane did not say whether the activities of the Free Iraqi Forces who were risking torture and death to overthrow Saddam also constituted a "crime".
To the leftwing Lane it is Bush, Blair and Howard who are the war criminals and not the sadistic Saddam of whom there was not a word of criticism.
Lane tried to provide a vigorous defence of Saddam's peaceniks, arguing that are not out to save "Saddam's skin." Really, Mr Lane?
These Marxist organised protestors who work in concert with the Stalinist WWP (Workers World Party which also acts for Saddam) demand that US, Britain and Australia implement a
policy that is designed to save "Saddam's skin" and strengthen his awful regime, and Lane tells us they are not interested in saving Saddam.
Saddam murders at will, decapitates opponents, feeds others into shredding machines, sponsors terrorism, tortures children in front of their parents, gasses his subjects, uses women and children as human shields, sends out Fedayeen death squads to enforce his orders, etc. Yet, despite Saddam's unspeakable crimes the worst that Lane can bring himself to say of this butcher that his is "a bad government."
For God's sake, Lane, how many Iraqis does Saddam have to torture, starve and murder before you can bring yourself to call his regime evil?
The great humanitarian Lane accuses Australian soldiers who are engaged in the noble cause of ridding the world of this tyrant as being criminals, but where is his condemnation of Saddam's crimes? Where is his sympathy for Saddam's victims? Only three days ago Saddam's Fedayeen thugs machine gunned Shiites trying to flee Basra. Now these Iraqis were heading for the British lines and yet Lane claims that it is allied troops who are murdering these people.
Throughout the whole of his article he makes not one mention of the number of Iraqis that Saddam has not only murdered but continues to murder and torture through his machinery of terror, and still he accuses the allies of committing "murder".
(Lane also manages to avoid mentioning the regime's beating and murder of POWs.)
Unfortunately, the virtues of honesty and integrity are completely alien to the left. Flaunting his contempt for facts and showing a complete disregard for consistency (something else the left is not hot on) Lane made the absurd claim that Saddam had been completely disarmed and was defenceless! Moreover, in another article lane made the outrageous statement that "Iraq is a threat to no one".
All of this will be news to terrorised Iraqis who are still subject to his terror machine, not to mention the Kuwaitis and the Kurds he gassed.
The Bush-hating Lane has either become unhinged or he actually thinks the murderous Fedayeen, Republican Guard divisions and those Scuds, T-55s and T-72s are really cardboard cut-outs. As likely as not, however, he believes his readers are so consumed with hatred of Bush and Howard that they will believe anything — no matter how inane, inconsistent or patently false — that confirms their rabid leftwing prejudices.
Nevertheless, we should be grateful to the likes of Lane and his repulsive ilk because every time they open their mouths they reveal the utter depravity of the left.
By the way, Kommissar Lane, the slogan "Not in my name" that you enthusiastically mouth owes its popularity to C. Clark Kissinger, a fanatical Maoist activist. The Not In Our Name 'peace' organisation is backed by the likes of the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), the Stalinist Workers World Party, the Stalinist Refuse and Resist group, etc.
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