Mana News editor Joe Trinder

Lieutenant General Timothy Keating has categorically denied the New Zealand Special Air Service are currently in Iraq. Mana News has a source in Iraq that the SAS are in Iraq near Baghdad and the decision for New Zealand  to send troops was made months ago and leaked by the Australian Government last week.

The Prime minister yesterday outlined his deployment to Iraq. To be realistic this will be a long term engagement more likely a 10 year war, the second Iraq war was from 2003-2011 longer than world war two.

The Prime minister has denied parliament a democratic vote on this decision. This deployment has not been sanctioned by parliament. The details of the deployment are sketchy Defence force personnel are going to be behind the wire in camp Taji and the SAS are sort of going, and there are only 16 trainers out of 143 troops over a two year period.

The Iraqi government that requested our troops is refusing a force agreement that protects our troops from prosecution if they kill an enemy combatant or civilian. New Zealand Troops can be prosecuted and imprisoned by Iraqi authorities, this shows a lack of commitment by the Iraqi government and indicates they don’t really need our troops.

Yesterday  Prime minister John Key yelled across parliament

‘Get some guts and join the right side’

The PM announced that the deployment of troops to the cost of $63 Million dollars. The National Government has decided they can’t afford the feed the kids bill costing $100 million.