Heat on Australian PM for WMD inquiry :

"The Prime Minister has resisted an inquiry, arguing information on nuclear capability and weapons of mass destruction before the invasion of Iraq was mainly from the US and Britain.

'Almost all the intelligence that came our way in relation to the war against Iraq pertained from British and American sources,' he said in Perth yesterday. "

In other words, Howard sent hundreds of Australian soldiers to join the illegal pre-emptive strike on Iraq without independently verifying the intelligence he relied on, even though 82% of Australians were against the war.