Nailing Howard's lies
At the Senate inquiry into the Government's spin on intelligence reports in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, Andrew Wilkie the former intelligence agent who resigned rather than go along with the lies, said the Australian Government "skewed, misrepresented, used selectively and fabricated" the intelligence. "Sometimes the exaggeration was so great it was clear dishonesty", he said. Words and phrases qualifying intelligence assessments, such as "probably", "could" and "uncorroborated evidence suggests" were frequently dropped from reports. "Words like 'massive' and 'mammoth' were included [instead]". The reality is that no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, either before or after the invasion. Howard, Blair and Bush are now attempting to blame the intelligence community to cover up their lies.