lining Saddams pockets while US sons & daughters are killed..

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Alexander's wheat dream

"Mr Downer, the beginning of the inquiry into possible corrupt practices by the Australian Wheat Board in Iraq will be notable in hindsight as the beginning of your demise as Australian Foreign Minister..

How easily the mighty can fall. One minute you are touted to head the International Atomic Energy Agency, the next you are about to become embroiled in an international bribery scandal!

Remember, back in '96, when you announced Australian Wheat being involved in the Iraqi Oil-For-Food Program? You were happy to look for kudos back then regarding AWB involvement, but I guess you'd love to turn back time now, wouldn't you?

Those lines written to you a year later by the Governor Of Texas, that hung so proudly on your Adelaide office wall, must seem as empty words now. Remember them?

Australia is a very important ally of the United States, and should I ever be in the position to reconfirm that alliance, I look forward to doing so. I hope to see you again. Respectfully yours, George W. Bush.

Since then you've "earned your stripes" by simultaneously goading the Koreans and reintroducing Australia to fear of missile warfare and have been truly an asset in campaigning for the Free Trade Agreement. However, this does not look like being enough to "save" your
diplomatic "skin""

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