Defence minister says any decision to engage in armed conflict should be better debated and scrutinised
The government has said Australia will have sovereign control of the submarines and that it wants to protect shipping lanes and uphold peace and stability across the region.Australian militarySteele-John said both major parties had “failed to even try to learn the lessons from the illegal invasion of Iraq”.“Politicians from Washington to Canberra actively lied and purposely omitted important information on their march to war,” he said.
“We must reform the way Australia goes to war by implementing a parliamentary vote like so many other countries around the world, so that lies and false intelligence can be called out before people are put in harm’s way.”, who quit his position at the then Office of National Assessments a week before the invasion of Iraq, said the passage of 20 years had not “righted the wrong of the staggering dishonesty behind the war”.
“Regrettably no one in Australia has ever been held to account for this egregious misconduct,” Wilkie said. “Moreover the opportunity to learn from it and to reform war powers, in other words to give the parliament responsibility for deciding to go to war, has been ignored.”
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