I’m thinking Radiohead’s Life in a Glass House is Adbusters in a bottle.
The other day a friend told me that New Zealand currently has 60 troops in Iraq, and Australia has 90 (though it has many more in the surrounding countries). I had the impression that we are pretty much neutral in this particular conflict, while Australia is fully on-side with America, but if those figures are accurate, we are three times more committed (per capita) than the Aussies.
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My impression is that the New Zealand troops are not there in a fighting capacity but are there primarily as aid workers, whereas the Australians were actively involved in the glorious liberation of Iraq by force.
I think you are right. NZ, Aussie.
Yeah, i agree with John. Most of the NZ contingent are engineers helping to restore water supplies, etc. whereas the aussies are there to help with the fighting, keep the peace, etc.
Actually, the paper htis morning stated there were 800 Aussie troops in Iraq. If that is right they roughly have about the same troops per capita, not that anyone really cares, infact i think I just nodded off