AWB Scandal

So... you've probably (hopefully) all heard about the impropriety of the Australian Wheat Board. Its been revealed that as part of the U.N. "Oil for Food Program", the Australian (monopoly) Wheat Board paid millions of dollars to Saddam Hussain's regime with (what is now apparent) the full knowledge of senior management. Emails have been revealed showing staff trying to work out how best to deliver the bribe to the Iraqi dictatorship. There have been suggestions that the government knew (or should have known) about this, given the top level meetings between the wheat board executive and the foreign minisiter Alexander "Fishnets" Downer.

As usual, the Government has come out saying that they "heard no evil and saw no evil" and were blissfully ignorant of the whole bribery affair. They "don't recall" anything that could hurt them politically, but oh yeah - they were given firm intelligence about the WMD in iraq (pffft!) It just really irks how selective the hearing is of this government!

Anyways, in the whole story, I feel most sorry for the people of Iraq. Firstly, they had overseas Countries prop up their dictator with dodgy Oil bribies. Then those sames countries decided to "liberate" Iraq from this terrible dictator (btw, whom we installed and propped up). The Liberation was a success with the Iraqi army, and about 30,000 "collateral" people killed. Great going guys.