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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (69857)	12/21/2010 2:35:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217843

Meanwhile, WikiLeaks shows USA cables are full of bunk. No wonder the USA does dopey things like attacking Iraq to stop non-existent WMDs. The USA official and NZ military "intelligence" man will have to get jobs more suited to their talents - perhaps wandering around Afghanistan looking for Osama. The USA seems more excited about getting Julian Assange than Osama bin Laden despite the fact that Julian Assange provides a great public service but Osama bin Laden is a mass murderer. You'd think the USA would be grateful to Julian for having put the record straight. It wasn't soldiers for cheese and profits. nzherald.co.nz Helen Clark said: <"I am absolutely incensed at the suggestion that some Defence Ministry personnel seem to have made to various diplomats that there was any connection between my support for sending engineers to do humanitarian work in Iraq with the interests of Fonterra, I mean this is simply preposterous." Cabinet responded to a call from the UN for states to help in Iraq and she has no recollection of Dr Cullen making such a comment. "Absolutely nothing. I read this stuff on the website last night with incredulity. I can't even remember any suggestion of Michael Cullen even raising it. What I know is that after the UN Security Council resolution that said `would you come and help member states in Iraq' we looked at what we could do." Mr Goff yesterday said the allegation was ridiculous. "No such trade-off was ever suggested and if it ever had been, it would have been rejected out-of-hand. We do not trade putting the lives of our military personnel at risk for commercial deals. It is a completely false claim." Miss Clark said the cables were not to be read as fact. "So much of it is just plain gossip. And I just have to say to that one that I am shocked and appalled to have my name dragged into that rubbish." Mr Goff said the engineers were sent when the UN Security Council provided a mandate for countries that were not part of the invasion to assist. Mr Goff said Labour opposed the invasion of Iraq. "The decision to later send engineers was made after an invitation from the UN Security Council. The US embassy official who wrote this cable was clearly completely out of touch... "The idea that we would send army engineers to Basra after Michael Cullen purportedly stated at the Cabinet that our stand on Iraq would cost Fonterra is totally false. No such statement was ever made nor was there ever a discussion to that effect." > Hooray for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. The stupid, lying, violent, self-dealing crazies in government need to be held to account. Mike Huckabee, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Julia Gillard ... it's interesting to see who takes what position on this. Kevin Rudd figured it out pretty quickly. Julia Gillard did not. Mqurice