Rattus, during his warmonger reign in Australia, organized with the Turkish government a way to make Gallipoli into a profit making tourist attraction.  So much for the principle of "Lest we Forget". 

Since then the complicit profiteering media have kept the digging up of the remains of both Australian and Turkish soldiers as necessary to the ultimate situation where our ancestors (and theirs) have become a tourist circus - as would be expected from a group who demand our soldier's sacrifice - if it is profitable?

Which religion, if any, supported the actions of the Howard "New Order" government?  "Lest we forget" - that is - where they are or - where they were?  Does Howard care?

I don't know where we are going. We are NOT a defense force - no more than our nation is a democracy.

I remember the propaganda of the media which highlighted the "defend your loved ones" - and wear the female attracting uniform that makes you special.  Misinformation.

During the last years of our war with Japan, the hastily mustered and undertrained militia were the true heros when they stemmed the tide in New Guinea - and a real Defence Force.

The story of every problem for the ordinary people in this world for centuries, has been misinformation.

The US supported dictators control their media - the US controls the dictators and therefore controls the information fed to the "cake eaters". 

With all this knowledge about which we can do very little, we sit back and absorb the very crimes of the Zionists of Palestine, that our ancestors "were supposed" to sacrifice their lives to prevent for all time. And the Germans/Italians/Polish/Russian/British/American/Belgian/French/Australian/New Zealand and a lot of colonial combatants.  Struth.

"Winner takes all"?  They weren't even a combatant.

God Bless Australia and give us independence of choice.  NE OUBLIE.

From Bob Ellis at unleashed.

It was lost on the night of bombardment before the first landing, lost in the first hour on the beach, lost on each of the 245 days that followed, lost in the planning at Whitehall, lost in the choice of the deranged Ian Hamilton, lost in the luck of getting the genius Ataturk as our principal foe.

It was the largest amphibious operation in world history then and we lost it early and often and five thousand of them were killed there and ten thousand crippled and twenty thousand sent half-mad with what they saw and survived. Dick Casey, Bert Facey, Clem Attlee, Compton McKenzie, Leon Gellert came home from it and God knows how many young men of equal worth like Rupert Brooke stayed on to moulder in shallow graves and be eaten by dogs and fill the dreams of the girlfriends and sisters and mothers they never came home to, sneaking out in the boats at night in gently falling snow with their mates on Christmas Eve.

It was a bloody debacle and a murderous waste and its failure meant the First World War killed twenty million more young men to no good end and World War 2 came then as a consequence. And I and my father and thirty million subsequent Australians were told it was a kind of triumph.

In a spin exercise as enormous as the one that followed the Crucifixion we were told it was Australia's 'coming of age', the 'finest sons' of a 'new young nation' proving what we could do - die pointlessly in Churchill's incompetent conception of a knock-out blow, a back door to victory.

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See also toon at road to glory