Tornado Alley (PROG)

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No failure in generalship with this Colonel gentleman ..
excerpt, 15mm from bottom ..

"Labor’s national executive has acted quickly on the authority it received from the national conference to preselect candidates for 25 New South Wales seats, nominating military lawyer Colonel Mike Kelly to run against Liberal member Gary Nairn in Eden-Monaro. In his role with the coalition provisional authority after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Kelly is credited with efforts to blow the whistle on mistreatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib and AWB’s payment of kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime. David Humphries and Andrew Clennell of the Sydney Morning Herald assess the state of play elsewhere as follows: ... end excerpt

General Mike Kelly, 20 years Afghanistan, Bosnia,
E. Timor, Somalia; 2003-4 arguably the top Australian in the
Coalition of the Wantobees and involved in root basic
strategic planning for the invasion of Iraq, retired last week
and has just slammed the Iraq effort on national tv.

Notes:

Kelly said .. did feel at the time
that getting rid of SH was a good thing, but ..

said invasion and aftermath U.S. leadership incompetent

lack of post war us planning and Australian compliance

frustration and sadness of avoidable casualty ..
suffering and cost ,, knew much could have been
avoided .. invasion comparable to puring kerosene on the problem

actually made the international security situation worse worse

Bremer, interviewed, qualified his position by saying he
had no preference for either political party in Australia, .. HA ..
then gave a gave a ringing endorsement of Kelly

was set up for failure .. strategic plan was set up to preserve
basic infrastructure etc and Rumsfeld (he didn't say mister)
overruled the whole concept. They did not accept the military
planning.

de-baathification was a most tragic mistake with ]100000s
unemployed and angry. We knew at the time[/b and i almost
got caught in a mob in my car, until I fired a warning shot.

bremer, interviewed again threw the blame on the Iraqis
who were given the responsibility for implementation
of the program. He said that the concept was a good one.

after initial phase shutters went down in Canberra
.. we were a bad partner .. i got a late night telephone from
General Cosgrove who told me that i should make it very clear
that Australia had no interest at all in discussing post
invasion things. Cosgrove has denied that he told Kelly.

I WONDER IF BUSH TOLD HOWARD TO STAY OUT OF IT?

re the AWA wheat scandal:

i was sickened by the knowledge that we paid $300000
million into a war chest our soldiers our soldiers were
fighting against. At another time it might be called treason.
I warned Canberra many times and received no reply

POTENTIALLY MOST DAMAGING TO HOWARD ..

I WARNED CANBERRA MANY TIMES OF CONCERNS OF TORTURE IN IRAQ ..

from June 2003 re torture concerns, in general and from sept.
2003 re concerns of Abu Ghraib specifically. i wrote many
times and there was absolutely no pressure from washington or
canberra. in mid 2994 Sen. Hill, forget what he was at the
time, told a senate inquiry that the government did not know
until jan. 2005 .. 4/.. had 5 written down.

rumsfeld verged on criminal negligence

HEY!, he could testify at Rummy's trial .. la la la

australian government complicit .. ??s to be answered

Kelly .. drafted to run against Howard in the election sept.-nov. this year

HOWARD has told party room the polls indicate they could get
annihilated at the election and that he has no rabbits to pull
out of the hat .. the bugger .. it was a rabbit of a stern
assessment of the situation told for the benefit of the media

WE 3 Howard PM, Costello treasurer, Downer, foreign minister
have been there for 11 years and that could be a disability

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