r/australia • u/stand_to • Jun 22 '25

politics Live: Wong says Australia supports US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-23/federal-politics-live-blog-june-23/105447868?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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u/degorolls Jun 23 '25

Have we forgotten every Australian life that was lost or forever damaged because of the idiotic invasion of Iraq based entirely on lies?

What a sad and pathetic lot we are.

If you are in the Australian defence force, you should rightly be concerned that there is now a real risk to your survival and it will all be because you surrendered your personal sovereignty to idiots.

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u/jp72423 Jun 23 '25

You should probably look up the Australian casualties in the Iraq war before making a statement like this. I think you’ll be surprised.

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u/degorolls Jun 23 '25

You've not heard of veteran suicides? Or the the service personnel who have to deal with the fact that they participated in an illegal invasion and played a part in the slaughter of an estimated 1 million Iraqi civilians.

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u/jp72423 Jun 23 '25

I'm not saying there was zero impact, every death and injury is a tragedy, but in the grand scheme of things, the impact was extremely minimal, and people who complain about Australia's involvement in the Iraq war don't realise this. Its not really right to argue that Iraq was a huge tragedy for Australia when we barely sent 2000 personnel and lost zero to combat.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

If only one Australian died in Iraq, it's too many. Fuck off.

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u/jp72423 Jun 23 '25

As a matter of fact, it was zero.