No time to talk turkey, it's Iraq in his sights - smh.com.au
"[Prime Minister Howard] drew the first nexus between the war on terrorism and the expected campaign against Saddam Hussein by suggesting there was a need to ensure unreliable states harbouring weapons of mass destruction did not provide them to Osama bin Laden."

According to former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Iraq has been 90-95% disarmed, ie it has no weapons of mass destruction. But even if it did, the only situation in which it might use them, especially against the US, is if it faced dire threat of imminent destruction. Also, Saddam and Bin Laden are bitter enemies, therefore there is minimal likelihood that Saddam would supply Bin Laden with WMD (if he had them) or with any weapons.

The gaps in logic in the Howard position are remarkable and can only be explained by the absence of genuine content and debate in modern politics, and how everything is done for appearances, and how it works immediately in the polls.

No time to talk turkey, it's Iraq in his sights - smh.com.au
"[Prime Minister Howard] drew the first nexus between the war on terrorism and the expected campaign against Saddam Hussein by suggesting there was a need to ensure unreliable states harbouring weapons of mass destruction did not provide them to Osama bin Laden."

According to former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Iraq has been 90-95% disarmed, ie it has no weapons of mass destruction. But even if it did, the only situation in which it might use them, especially against the US, is if it faced dire threat of imminent destruction. Also, Saddam and Bin Laden are bitter enemies, therefore there is minimal likelihood that Saddam would supply Bin Laden with WMD (if he had them) or with any weapons.

The gaps in logic in the Howard position are remarkable and can only be explained by the absence of genuine content and debate in modern politics, and how everything is done for appearances, and how it works immediately in the polls.