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To: TimF who wrote (160027)	2/5/2003 11:39:48 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578154

Australia to Share Deadly Secrets Thanks for the link. Good example of conservative doublespeak. Mr. Howard, the conservative Prime Minister is telling Aus. Parliament that Aus. wants UN backing before attacking Iraq but has already committed Aus. troops to the fighting which are on their way to the ME. In some ways, conservatives are not far from ideologues in their philosophy........they believe their goals are so right on, they will affront almost anyone to get them accomplished. ted _____________________________________________________________________ Mr Crean backed his argument by seizing on a leaked memo suggesting it was already too late to withdraw Australian forces from the Gulf, even if the UN refused to sanction military action. The Foreign Affairs Department document, revealed on Channel 9, recorded details of a private conversation last October between Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer and a senior New Zealand diplomat. It quoted Mr Downer as saying Australia would prefer UN backing for military strikes. But Australia was not in a position, if the UN process broke down, to withdraw its ships from the Gulf, the document quoted him as saying. Mr Crean said the report proved Mr Howard was committed to war against Iraq, even if the US decided to go it alone. "This is evidence that the troops are committed, they can't get out of it and the person that will determine whether our troops actually go into war is George Bush, not John Howard," he said. Mr Crean demanded Mr Howard use his overseas visit next week to tell President Bush Australian troops would not go to war without the UN's blessing. But Mr Downer last night said the document had been grotesquely misrepresented. It referred not to a war deployment but the multi-national interception force in the Gulf, which has been enforcing sanctions against Iraq for over a decade, he said.