Why is the question "is there any proof that ministers knew what the AWB was doing" by pouring millions into Saddam's pockets?
The real question should be "how is the government keeping us safe"?
We were told by the PM with breathless urgency at the time that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical weapons, and was within months of having nuclear weapons. The smoking gun could be a "mushroom cloud" with thousands, or millions of casualties. But now, we are told, no minister knew that the AWB was shovelling money Saddam's way to protect its contracts, even though the negotiations over the contracts were a major issue at the time. That would be like British ministers in 1939 saying they didn't know Hitler was going to invade Poland, because no-one sent them the memo.
Who have we got for a PM, John Winston Howard, or John Neville Chamberlain?
The real question should be "how is the government keeping us safe"?
We were told by the PM with breathless urgency at the time that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical weapons, and was within months of having nuclear weapons. The smoking gun could be a "mushroom cloud" with thousands, or millions of casualties. But now, we are told, no minister knew that the AWB was shovelling money Saddam's way to protect its contracts, even though the negotiations over the contracts were a major issue at the time. That would be like British ministers in 1939 saying they didn't know Hitler was going to invade Poland, because no-one sent them the memo.
Who have we got for a PM, John Winston Howard, or John Neville Chamberlain?
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