Remember the Downing Street Memos

Well now other members of the commonwealth are joining in the game, showing the plot to invade Iraq well in advance:

Previously secret AWB documents have revealed that the wheat exporter was told Australia would join the war against Iraq a year before the Federal Government says it decided to commit troops.

The information came from Australia's Ambassador to the United Nations, John Dauth.

Prime Minister John Howard announced that Australian troops would join the strike on Iraq on March 1, 2003.

He said the decision was made just before that.

But AWB board notes says that early in 2002 the Australian Ambassador to the UN, Mr Dauth, said Australia would support and participate in US action.

He accurately predicted the strike to depose Saddam Hussein would start within 18 months.

The report of AWB chairman Trevor Flugge's meeting says Ambassador Dauth promised that AWB would get as much advance warning of the war as possible.

Opposition Leader Kim Beazley says the evidence of the relationship between the private wheat trader and diplomats shows there is much more to be examined.

"John Howard was prepared to take the wheat board into his confidence years before going to war, but not the Australian people," he said.

The final report of the oil-for-food inquiry is due to be handed to the Government tomorrow.

The Australians were telling agri-business in advance, but not it's own citizens. Wow, they ARE just like us.