Our Own Plan for Iraq
As the months and years tick by, the Iraq war looks more like a never-ending nightmare. Australians now need an honest conversation from our Government, so we can find an honourable path forward – and home.
The American people have finally forced the Bush administration to face its failure in Iraq: George Bush’s Republican Party has lost control of the US Congress and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has resigned.
But our Prime Minister seems to have forgotten that the Australian-American alliance is bigger than his personal friendship with President Bush – a President whose war strategy now faces intensifying criticism from voters, as well as growing numbers within his own Party.
From the beginning, Australians were told to support this war for a variety of reasons that turned out to be untrue. We deserve better.
Now our Government needs a plan of its own.
Dear Prime Minister,
For years your Government has adopted the Bush administration’s Iraq policy as our own, even as that policy has repeatedly failed. With Australian troops still at risk and the situation in Iraq deteriorating, Australia urgently needs an independent Iraq policy.
We ask that you announce a plan for a new way forward, including a clearly defined exit strategy for Australia in Iraq.
*Petition updated as of February15, 2007
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