Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: islamic state

  • Key admits he’s using our troops as vote-bait

    Yesterday in the House, John Key admitted that it’s “no” coincidence that our deployment to Iraq is scheduled to end at the perfect moment – right before the 2017 election.…

  • The price of the club?

    Back in 2003, John Key had an interesting take on whether it was appropriate to send troops to Iraq: he seemed to think the only factor to consider was whether…

  • Let slip the dogwhistles of war

    In discussions, potential possibility, no commitment, carrying out a scoping mission – the plan to send NZ military forces to Iraq to combat Islamic State is only the vaguest of…