From: Adam Flinton 

John Beckett wrote:
> Phil Payne  wrote in message
> news::
>
>>And these are Australians?
>
>
> Our (Australian) Prime Minister has consistently hinted for a couple of
> years that the US is welcome to the two Australians held at Guantanamo
> Bay. Both major political parties have been more-or-less in agreement with
> this view. The left opposition makes noises to a contrary position, but
> not very loudly.
>
> The main point is that if the Australians were brought home, they would be
> freed instantly by the courts because there is simply no way any
> Australian law could be applicable (or even if applicable, it could not be
> proven that the law had been broken).
>
> Only recently has the media taken some tentative steps towards providing a
> sympathetic view of the two Australian detainees.
>
> Before 9/11 I would have been among those hotly opposed to the above
> brutal and dangerously anti-golden-thread-of-justice view.
>
> John
>

So what are your people fighting for? It ain't liberty & the rule of
law it would seem so it must be keeping in with the Americans. Heck didn't
you also send troops to Vietnam for the same reason?

Adam

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