Ammunition to the extremists

We now know that the evidence on the threat that Iraq actually posed to Australia and its allies was at best highly defective, if not downright dishonest.

Attacking Iraq on this false premise has made our region significantly more dangerous.

It has given ammunition to the extremists who have vowed revenge for the 50,000 innocent Iraqis who have been killed in this conflict.

The bill to Australia for this Prime Ministerial extravagance is $750 million and climbing.

When will the public realise that John Howard, by myopic blindness to the madness of King George Bush, has legitimised international terrorism in the minds of many Moslem extremists on a scale not previously seen in our lifetimes?

We are now subject to the ongoing risk of paying the ultimate price for Howard's dramatic error of judgement.

He has made Australia more vulnerable to attack and less secure.

Warrren Cross, Wagstaffe