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The news from Iraq this morning couldn’t be much worse for John Howard.  Now our own soldiers have dramatically demonstrated what a shambles the situation over there really is.  Not even a Government minister’s own staff can be distinguished from insurgents by Australian troops.  And they were all there because Australia has been working hard to win back one of its most important wheat markets after the AWB kickback scandal led to Iraq suspending dealings with them in February.  This is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.  Just look at what’s happening with the U.S. troops.

At home, the Liberal party rebels have refused to cave in on the Immigration changes before Howard goes to Indonesia, robbing him of the opportunity to show the Indonesians how well he controls Parliament.  And he didn’t even get invited to The Wedding!

Perhaps he’s wishing he had resigned while things were looking good.

A citizen panel in the U.S. state of Oregon has recommended that members of the state parliament should not be drunk at work.  They are leaving it up to the members themselves to make a ruling.  Perhaps they are worried that their respected representatives could go down the path of the Lithunaian truck driver pulled over by police when driving down the centre of the road 60 miles from Vilnius, the capital.  His blood alcohol level was 7.27 gms per litre – 18 times the legal limit.  At first they assumed the equipment was faulty but after testing him on a variety of devices they had to believe it. Medical experts say anything above 3.5 grams per litre of alcohol in the blood is lethal for most people.