The Boys Who Cried Wolf

The problem with lying, as I explain to my young nephews, is that once you lose somebody's trust it is very hard to regain it.

US military intelligence now say they have no evidence to confirm their earlier claim that a deadly explosion in the Iraqi town of Fallujah earlier this week was the result of an accident in a bomb-making class.

John Howard said it was important for Australia to join the Iraqi invasion because failure to do so would set a dangerous precedent for North Korea. But rather than cowering in fear of a US invasion, North Korea has responded by more vigorously publicising their nuclear weapons programme. Last week US intelligence released details of what it says is a new nuclear weapons site in North Korea, yet the South Koreans themselves are saying that this latest intelligence is not reliable.