(Not me) Official video from David McBride’s Official Youtube channel. If you don’t know who he is - I don’t blame you, with how little coverage this story has gotten

  • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneOP
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    6 months ago

    I’m pretty sure he thought war crimes were happening, he just thought they were investigating the wrong soldiers to cover up for higher-ranking and more decorated soldiers like Ben Roberts-Smith to pretend that they cared about war crimes

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      6 months ago

      soldiers were being wrongly accused and illegally investigated for war crimes.

      Is honestly pretty unambiguous wording.

      And the other evidence against your claim is, why would McBride had been pissed off by the ABC’s reporting of his leaked files? If you were right, the ABC’s angle would be completely aligned with McBride’s. Why would Oakes allege there was disagreement there?

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        6 months ago

        I think he’d be pissed off at the ABC for missing the point and just covering the war crimes, effectively covering up the arses of those higher up.

        soldiers were being wrongly accused and illegally investigated for war crimes.

        Could mean exactly what I said as well

        investigating the wrong soldiers to cover up

        That’s what I said. The two statements are not mutually exclusive