Received in an email from
GetUp:
We're sending you this urgent, one-time email because right now is a time when we can change Australia's direction by speaking up about what's important to us.
Last week, we saw the Prime Minister launch his campaign - and the most astonishing thing happened. As the leader of a nation at war, setting out his vision for the future, Mr Howard failed to even mention the war which he has supported - not a single word.
We are not experts. But we are two young Australian women who know something about the real cost of this war in Iraq. I, Louise (right), survived the 2005 London bombings. I underwent six operations and spent three months in traction. And I, Sam (left), was married to Jacob McMillan - an American soldier, my 25 year old love, who was killed in action in Iraq last December.
Please. Join over 60,000 of us calling for an end to the mess in Iraq by putting your name to the petition below:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/OurOwnPlanForIraq
How can this man live with himself? I honestly feel for people like this - Liz is so dear to me and, she keeps telling me, I to her. I can only imagine the pain Sam and Louise must be suffering, and to think it was for a war over
WMDs global security oil that our country's leader has taken us to against the majority of the population's will, well, I'll let you end this sentence by voting appropriately on the weekend.
Can't wait to see the back of him.