'Speech - Australia and the Vietnam War'

'From the twelvemonth 1962 to 1972, over 60 thousand Australian Servicemen were sent to Vietnam to apportion in unmatched of the most(prenominal) moot events in in all of Australias History. numerous see we should subscribe been touch in the Vietnam war because of our geographical proximity, the domino hypothesis or our bail with the USA, moreover passim this speech, I go out share wherefore I conceptualize Australia, as a nation, should pose neer recordd. Australia should non have been involved in the war due(p) to the inhumane maneuver through uses of chemical substance warfare, Robert Menzies deceiving the nation and the Australian publics opinion.\nIn a speech Robert Menzies presented to fan tan on the twenty-ninth of April 1965 he state: The Australian governing body is now in receipt of a request from the regime of south Viet Nam for but military assistance. later analysing this, Menzies clearly mode that the government of southern Vietnam request ed our help, however the South Vietnamese prime attend wrote to the Australian ambassador based in Saigon saying: I have the reward to refer to your earn ... stick outing the Australian Governments offer to channelise to Vietnam an infantry battalion...in assisting the defense mechanism of the Republic of Vietnam. I wish to confirm my governments acceptance of this offer.... These differentiating native quote sources do pose a lot of confusion, although South Vietnam did not this instant appeal for our assistance. For this precedent I do not believe Australia should have been involved in The Vietnam contend unless we were requested to help. The lives of in any case many were alienated in a War that we were not obligated to participate in, because the Australian Prime Minister deceived the nation.\n brute(prenominal) warfare manners has been one of the most scandalous facets of the Vietnam War. all over 80 meg litres of chemicals, including Agent orangeness were spra yed in the Vietnam War. However, the geneva Protocol, signed in 1925 clearly prohi... '