".... no one these days believes a word the Government says about the Iraq war. On Tuesday the Prime Minister showed why. Yet again.
His latest piece of sophistry is that the war is at a "tilting point". How he loves that White House jargon, those Pentagon mots du jour. Having sailed through the election campaign tossing out bland assurances that Australia would not be deploying more troops to Iraq, and having told The Bulletin magazine only three weeks ago that this still held good, John Howard has suddenly tilted another 450 diggers into the quagmire.
And all because our good friends the British, and our oldest ally, the Japanese, have asked politely. No arm-twisting from Washington, of course."
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