From The Campaign Trail

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The bloodshed in Iraq continues unchecked and unabated. This terrible adventure costing thousands of Iraqi lives and billions of Australian dollars goes on with no end in sight. Yet Howard still maintains that the decision to go to war was right. In an interview last week he stuck to the line that he decided to go to war only in early 2003 - only after carefully weighing all the intelligence on weapons of mass destruction! How do Howard and his local backer Michael Johnson square that account with the latest AWB documents released from the Cole Inquiry? These reveal Australian Ambassador to the UN John Dauth briefing AWB Chairman Trevor Flugge, in some detail, that Howard's government would be part of a military action against Saddam Hussein. The problem for Howard and his supporters is that the briefing took place in February 2002 - a full year prior to the invasion. Does Dauth possess amazing predictive abilities or are there other explanations? Let me know what you think.