Speech - Australia and the Vietnam War

From the year 1962 to 1972, everyplace 60 thousand Australian Servicemen were sent to Vietnam to partake in one of the close disputed events in all of Australias History. Many believe we should endure been involved in the Vietnam state of war because of our geographical proximity, the domino supposition or our alliance with the USA, barely throughout this speech, I allow for share why I believe Australia, as a nation, should pee-pee never participated. Australia should not have been involved in the war due to the painful conduct through uses of chemical war, Robert Menzies deceiving the nation and the Australian prevalents opinion.\nIn a speech Robert Menzies presented to Parliament on the 29th of April 1965 he express: The Australian Government is right off in receipt of a request from the Government of due south Viet Nam for further military assistance. subsequently analysing this, Menzies clearly means that the governing of southwestward Vietnam requested our he lp, further the South Vietnamese prime quantity Minister wrote to the Australian embassador based in Saigon reflection: I have the watch over to refer to your letter ... confirm the Australian Governments offer to send to Vietnam an human foot battalion...in assisting the defence of the Republic of Vietnam. I wish to confirm my giving medications acceptance of this offer.... These differentiating primary winding quote sources do stun a lot of confusion, although South Vietnam did not directly woo for our assistance. For this reason I do not believe Australia should have been involved in The Vietnam struggle unless we were requested to help. The lives of too more were lost in a War that we were not stimulate to participate in, because the Australian roseola Minister deceived the nation.\nInhumane warfare conduct has been one of the most scandalous facets of the Vietnam War. Over 80 million litres of chemicals, including Agent orangeness were sprayed in the Vietnam War . However, the Geneva Protocol, sign(a) in 1925 clearly prohi...