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. Vietnam war- lost (shouldn't have been there in the first place) (Menzies)
. Iraq war - lost (shouldn't have been there in the first place) (Howard)
''Two decades after the US-led “coalition of the willing” invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein, Australia seems to have drawn few lessons from the folly of its participation.
The preservation of the US-Australia alliance, the primary reason for the conservative Howard government’s participation, still largely impels Australia’s foreign and defence policies...
It is clear that the Howard government largely dodged the politically ignominious legacy the Iraq invasion bequeathed on US leadership and that of its other chief invasion ally, the UK......
Howard – despite initial deep electoral concerns about the war, and even amid revelations about Australia’s true, largely unstated reasons for taking part and its knowledge of abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison – was resoundingly re-elected the following year.
. Howard sends in Special forces to do infantry work - to save money. How's it turned out for ya John?
. Afghanistan war (shouldn't have been there in the first place) ----------- lost. (Howard)
