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Downer urged to oppose military strike on Iran
 A group of silly peace and goofy environment campaigners has banded together with a number of federal MPs to urge the Federal Government against supporting military action against Iran.
Friends of the Earth Australia spokesman John Hallam says Foreign Minister Alexander Downer should go one step further and rule out the use of military force. "If military action against Iran is not ruled out, then it will have an entirely perverse effect," he said. "It will guarantee positively that we get the very thing that we say we don't want, namely a bitterly hostile, nuclear-armed Iran."
| As opposed to a bitterly hostile, broken Iran. |
In a letter to Mr Downer, the group says the Federal Government needs to do everything in its power to discourage the US from any reckless course of action. "The possibility of military action and indeed, still the possibility of even a nuclear strike is very real," Mr Hallam said.
| And he would know, inside sources, all that. |
"That's not to say that it's going to happen and I hope and pray and trust that it won't but it's on the table and it shouldn't be on the table.
"It needs to be taken off the table."
Posted by: Oztralian 2006-04-29 |
