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| Subject: Why does the OZschwitz War Memorial proudly display this booty from an illegal war? Thu May 04, 2017 11:08 pm | |
| In a glass case in the modern conflicts and Middle East galleries at the Australian War Memorial hangs a gold-plated assault rifle, an AK47 issued by Saddam Hussein to one of his personal guards.
It was "discovered" among a cache of gold-plated weapons (the explanatory plaque says) by the United States 101st Airborne Division in Kirkuk, and given to an Australian brigadier-general visiting US headquarters in Northern Iraq.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/why-does-the-war-memorial-proudly-display-this-booty-from-an-illegal-war-20170503-gvy723.html |
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