The Man of Steel made hostages of us all.

Our troops and Naval personnel were hostage to their duty.

Then the public and media were hostage to the safety and wellbeing of our children who serve, so debate was stifled.

It was a perfect self-fulfilling scam, reinforced by decades of simplistic Anzac Day rhetoric and stupid flag-waving. We were suckers, easy meat for the War For Profit Gang.

Just think, our twenty-year olds serving in Afghanistan were only ten when the 9-11 crime was committed. What the hell are we doing?

....and all for the price of a Deputy Sherrif's badge ....

Bravo.
All it takes for evil to prosper is for good people to do nothing.
Howard and Bush need to go up for war crimes or the "terrorists" are indeed "freedom fighters".
We also need an inquiry into the Murdoch propaganda machine.
Lies were told consistently as part of a strategy to guide the masses. It worked brilliantly, but systematic lies told to a nation to force a war for blatant economic piracy certainly *should* be a crime.

In our newspapers about October, I believe, was a full page map of the Middle East, indicating the oilwells put in Iraq by the US, and ones in Afganistan put there by Russia. There was a note with it, "US congress has provisional plans to take over the Middle East oilfields if there is any further reduction of supplies". ABC 60 Minutes, Jan. 11, 2004 :- According to documents provided by former US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, George W. Bush, ten days after taking office in January 2001, instructed his aides to look for a way to overthrow the Iraqi regime. A secret memo entitled "Plan for post-Saddam Iraq" was discussed in January and February 2001, and a Pentagon document dated March 5, 2001, and entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield contracts", included a map of potential areas for petroleum exploration.[84]The US congress supplied weapons to Afghan forces to take over the Middle East oilfields, and this was the precedence to the attack on the Twin Trade Towers and the White house.

I forgot to tell you , the first report and Map, was in 1974.

In 1974, in our newspapers there was a page devoted to a map of the Middle East, indicating the US and Russian oil wells, with a note "US Congress has provisional plans to take over Middle East Oil fields if there is any further reduction of supply" I don't know what the supply of oil from the Middle East had to do with the US congress, but later events showed what was in store. ABC 60 Minutes, Jan. 11, 2004 :- According to documents provided by former US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, George W. Bush, ten days after taking office in January 2001, instructed his aides to look for a way to overthrow the Iraqi regime. A secret memo entitled "Plan for post-Saddam Iraq" was discussed in January and February 2001, and a Pentagon document dated March 5, 2001, and entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield contracts", included a map of potential areas for petroleum exploration.[84]The US congress supplied weapons to Afghan forces to take over the Middle East oilfields, and this was the precedence to the attack on the Twin Trade Towers and the White house.

Indeed, an inquiry is long overdue:

But to think, the only reason we were convinced to go along with this was the belief we would be 'vulnerable to an invasion from Indonesia or China if we don't get America to want to defend us' line-

I say the nation should have discussed the feasibility of these claims, were we to avoid getting suckered into the conflict to begin with.
Because if Wikileaks has taught us anything, the break-you-back-to-curry-favor with another country (especialy the USA) is a con-job with no reward.