Phillip Adams in his weekly column in The Australian challenges PM Howard's truthfulness and says that Howard is in the same league as a used car saleman when it comes to the Iraq War. Even George Bush appears a tad chastened by it all. Not our Johnny Howard!
"I'm not going to mince words," said John Howard, signalling that rare occasion at a prime ministerial press conference. A moment of truth. A degree of candour. Surprise, surprise, neither eventuated. Instead, words were minced as never before into the political counterpart of hamburger grind while truth and candour were crushed into dust, specifically bulldust. But you had to admire Howard's chutzpah, standing there feigning rectitude. How does he do it? How can he continue to talk such twaddle? One felt the same trust you'd have in the shonkiest second-hand car dealer. Would you buy a used war from this man?
"I'm not going to mince words," said John Howard, signalling that rare occasion at a prime ministerial press conference. A moment of truth. A degree of candour. Surprise, surprise, neither eventuated. Instead, words were minced as never before into the political counterpart of hamburger grind while truth and candour were crushed into dust, specifically bulldust. But you had to admire Howard's chutzpah, standing there feigning rectitude. How does he do it? How can he continue to talk such twaddle? One felt the same trust you'd have in the shonkiest second-hand car dealer. Would you buy a used war from this man?
Where George W. Bush took the blame for the failures in Iraq on himself, Howard, as usual, kept his distance from the catastrophe. Fifth Yet Howard admitted to the coalition of the willing having a few minor problems. But nothing another 20,000 Americans couldn't fix. Yet there would be no more Australian troops to share in the triumphs he still regards as inevitable, or pretends to. Seems a pity really, not to be better represented in the victory motorcade in Baghdad as cheering locals lay down their rocket-launchers to toss flowers and take up democracy.
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