Comments on: Australia and Timor, a tortured relationship http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/09/29/australia-and-timor-a-tortured-relationship/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:20:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ian http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/09/29/australia-and-timor-a-tortured-relationship/#comment-13529 Ian Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:15:04 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/09/29/australia-and-timor-a-tortured-relationship/#comment-13529 Our role in the 24 year, and continuing, misery of ET is one of our more shameful episodes. One that we are yet to fully acknowledge. And you really have to feel for a people who are at the mercy of the 'Idiot Son of the Establishment'!! As for bringing Suharto to trial, it ain't gunna happen for a multitude of reasons, not least of which being that the phrase "war criminal" dare not be used anywhere near Messrs. Bush, Blair and Howard, and their assorted fellow travelers/apparachik. It positively sends shivers up their collective spines, such as they are. And with good reason. I see that a Bosnian Serb leader has just been sentenced to 27 years in the salubrious ICC slammer. While I don't want to in anyway to downplay the suffering of the victims, his crimes pale almost into insignificance compared to the ongoing evil perpetrated by the above mentioned 'Three Amigos' with possible even greater bastardry being planned! Our role in the 24 year, and continuing, misery of ET is one of our more shameful episodes. One that we are yet to fully acknowledge.

And you really have to feel for a people who are at the mercy of the ‘Idiot Son of the Establishment’!!

As for bringing Suharto to trial, it ain’t gunna happen for a multitude of reasons, not least of which being that the phrase “war criminal” dare not be used anywhere near Messrs. Bush, Blair and Howard, and their assorted fellow travelers/apparachik. It positively sends shivers up their collective spines, such as they are. And with good reason.

I see that a Bosnian Serb leader has just been sentenced to 27 years in the salubrious ICC slammer. While I don’t want to in anyway to downplay the suffering of the victims, his crimes pale almost into insignificance compared to the ongoing evil perpetrated by the above mentioned ‘Three Amigos’ with possible even greater bastardry being planned!

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