Aaaaaaahahahahahaha Gillard has been caught out rewriting history. In other words, shes been caught out lying. ahahahahahahaha. In her work of fiction she accuses John Howard of using the military in the Tampa standoff as a direct result from the fear whipped up after the September 11 attack. One problem! The Tampa happened before September 11. ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Seriously! Cant Gillard stop herself from lying? Ever? Even when the chronology can be so easily checked? Mr Howard wants Gillard to correct the error. FULL ARTICLE: JOHN Howard has called on Julia Gillard to correct a “false” claim that he used the September 11 terror attacks to take a “hairy-chested political approach” on asylum-seekers and send SAS troops on to the Norwegian freighter, Tampa. The former Liberal prime minister wants the former Labor prime minister to correct her book, My Story, released last week, in which she says he used the atmosphere of fear of the “terrorist shock of 9/11” to order military forces to stop asylum-seekers reaching Australia. In fact, the Tampa episode took place weeks before the September 11 attacks in 2001. “Any storyline that we somehow played off Tampa or the September 11 attacks against each other is false and I completely reject it,” Mr Howard told The Australian yesterday. “The former prime minister has her chronology wrong and should correct the claims in the book.” In the section of her book on asylum-seekers, Ms Gillard wrote: “John Howard skilfully rode the political momentum that can be created around asylum-seeker issues at the 2001 election. Coming after the terrorist shock of 9/11 and in the atmosphere of fear that it created, Howard took a hairy-chested political approach and deployed our elite military forces to stop a Norwegian freighter, the Tampa, from bringing rescued asylum-seekers to our shore.” The cargo ship MV Tampa was refused entry to Australian waters after rescuing 438 people from a distressed Indonesian fishing boat 140km northwest of Christmas Island on August 26, 2001 — weeks before 9/11. The Tampa captain, Arne Rinnan, refused to return the asylum-seekers to Indonesia and anchored just off Christmas Island. The Howard government, backed by the Labor opposition, ordered SAS troops to board the vessel. The dramatic standoff was the basis of the government’s “Pacific Solution”, underwhich asylum-seekers were taken to Nauru. m.theaustralian.au/national-affairs/john-howard-calls-on-gillard-to-correct-false-claims/story-fn59niix-1227075710464
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:08:44 +0000
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