Australian PM's Iraq claims 'not supported'

While the US investigation into intelligence "failures" and attempts by the Bush administration to sell the Iraq war to the American people is just beginning, other such investigations are actually yielding judgments. It is quite amazing how little attention the Australian findings are getting in the US, especially since they essentially deal with Prime Minister Howard's wilingness to bend over backwards to accomodate the US. More importantly, the Australian investigation incudes preliminary judgments on the very issues that the Bush administration is telling us will take up to a year. Is the Australian finding illegitimate, or is this stuff not really rocket science as Bush (the presidential candidate) tells us? Remember: the US-UK-Australian nexus made this war together, in concert, and so we should treat these investigations as one big (however fragmented) investigation. This way, we won't have to wait until after the US election to know more about what happened and who did what.