Looks like Australia will be helping the Kurds with weaponry.
Debate continues over the purpose of Australia’s intervention in Iraq. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP
Tony Abbott has laid out the case for Australian military involvement in Iraq, telling parliament that a failure to act “means leaving millions of people exposed to death, forced conversion and ethnic cleansing”.
The prime minister said Australia had no intention to commit combat troops on the ground but was “not inclined to stand by in the face of preventable genocide either”.
Underlining the risks posed to Iraqis by the militant group known as Islamic State (Isis), Abbott said it was right for Australia to do what it prudently and proportionately could to “alleviate this suffering, to prevent its spread and to deal with its perpetrators”.
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- Abbott on Iraq: 'Doing nothing means leaving millions exposed to death'
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Daniel Hurst , political correspondent
- theguardian.com, Monday 1 September 2014 01.53 EDT
Debate continues over the purpose of Australia’s intervention in Iraq. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP
Tony Abbott has laid out the case for Australian military involvement in Iraq, telling parliament that a failure to act “means leaving millions of people exposed to death, forced conversion and ethnic cleansing”.
The prime minister said Australia had no intention to commit combat troops on the ground but was “not inclined to stand by in the face of preventable genocide either”.
Underlining the risks posed to Iraqis by the militant group known as Islamic State (Isis), Abbott said it was right for Australia to do what it prudently and proportionately could to “alleviate this suffering, to prevent its spread and to deal with its perpetrators”.
Continue reading at:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/01/abbott-on-iraq-doing-nothing-means-
