It has been stunning to watch the crass double standards our conservative pollies have been expousing in recent weeks. In light of the scandalous AWB payments to Saddam, we've had a barrage of business leaders and conservative politician's arguing that the trade is more important than the ethics of all this. Basically, it's the done thing in the middle-east, so why the bigr hallaballoo?
Well HELLO!!! Didn't we go to war over this? Not just because of Saddam and Iraq (and his devious WMD), but because he wasn't toeing the UN line. And why wasn't he? Because he was all cashed up because we'd been paying him kick backs (so why would he toe the line).
If the business sector had shown any sceric of ethical behaviour and the government backed its rhetoric with enforcement - perhaps the UN would have been more effective and Saddam could've been swept from power without ANY need for substantial violence and death (certainly not 2 years of the stuff).
How can these people not see that they are completely two faced about this is incredulous to me...
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