"The war to end all wars", how wrong that was,
Paul1405,
It wasn't wrong, it just didn't work out because of too many stupid people which you appear to openly support !

Hi Indy,

Since 1951 when has Australia engaged in a war of self defence. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Middle East, take your pick. It seems your conviction for war never extended to you personally becoming involved when having the opportunity. As you have said on the Forum in the past, you dodged national service, when you could have enlisted, what a hypocrite. Are you John Howard, as a young bloke Howard supported the war in Vietnam, but pee o'ed off to London to avoid national service in Australia, another hypocrite. Menzies the founder of the Liberal party, supported WWI but like Howard refused to enlist, didn't want to get shot at I suppose.

As you have said on the Forum in the past, you dodged national service,
Paul1405,
If you can show me that I'll give you a Grand ! No need to BS when you don't have an answer.
No matter what you try & deflect, you're a hypocrite of the highest order ! You can't shake that title !
Australian soldiers get involved overseas to prevent problems coming here & their efforts aren't helped by home-grown anarchists kept at the expense of decent folk !

Hi again Indy,

I was due to turn 20 in the first half of 1973. I was required to register for national service by 31st Dec 1972, get the papers from the post office. Having not registered by the due date I would be automatically drafted for failing to register, a crime in its self. How could i protest a unjust war, and then go and fight in it. Based on birth dates a young blokes chances of being conscripted were about 1 in 8. The soft option would be to register and take the odds of not being call up. I had chosen the braver option of not registering and becoming another one of the warmongers cannon fodder. Fortunately, the great and noble Gough Whitlam came to power, 2nd Dec 1972, and immediately abolished the disgusting Liberals killing lottery of national service.

When did you become eligible for military service (Australian citizen)? Did you attempt to enlist? Me thinks not, now who is the hypocrite. Call me what you like, but I have always stuck to my principles. What about you, can you say the same.

Paul,
At the time I asked a prominent Liberal if his disability was painful or in anyway disabling.
He looked at me somewhat askance and asked what I was talking about, so I said that as he was of military age I wondered why he’d been rejected when he volunteered to go to Vietnam.

If sour looks could kill he’d have been a great military asset.

I had a lot of army mates who served in Vietnam and I supported them and the rest to the best of my ability but I openly opposed the Government policy, a stance that was not popular in the Commonwealth public service and particularly not in the Dept. of Defence!!

Paul1405,
I wasn't allowed to go because I had to wait till they let me become a Citizen & by then the Goaf & Co had sold Australian patriotism & values & a promising future for votes from the drug-ridden hangers-on Dole brigade !
Part of the reason so many young Australians & Americans lost their lives then was because they had no support from the likes of you who were safely protesting & disrupting whilst receiving the Dole !