Immigration rising in Australia (27)

Really thoughts on starting the conflict that leads to your concerns was a "very emotional" one for the government too, you poor dear
Australia had not been at war since the last combat troops withdrew from Vietnam in December 1971, but a war came along on Hawke’s watch.
In August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and Australia joined the US-led international coalition.
Hawke remembers it as an emotional time for Labor which had vigorously opposed involvement in Vietnam.
“There is no doubt the first Gulf War was absolutely justified,” he said.




Islam was not the problem but fanaticism, whether it be fanatics acting in the name of Islam, Judaism or Christianity, he said, and argued that the invasion of Iraq by George W Bush would not have occurred without the influence of the Christian right in the United States.

The decision for Australia to become involved in the first war against Saddam Hussein – after he led an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait – was a "very emotional" one for the government, in the caucus and the cabinet, Mr Hawke said poor bob

"[President Bush] said Canada was not coming on board. Brian Mulroney, who was the prime minister of Canada, said he wasn't coming aboard because they had such big wheat markets [in Iraq]. I said 'George you leave Mulroney to me'. And I rang Brian – with whom I had very good relations … he had been a marvellous supporter of me in my leading the fight against apartheid within the Commonwealth heads of Government.

"We were good mates. I said, 'Hey Brian, what's this crap I hear from George that you're not coming aboard in regard to getting Saddam out of Iraq because of your wheat trade'?

"I said 'we've got a bloody big wheat trade too, but we are in'.

"He said 'OK Bob, we are in too'.

"So George was very pleased about that."



was a "very emotional" one for the government