Though, I sense a few suspect things. I do think it was kinda convenient how my prime minister, John Howard was across the road from this and your ex president, Bill Clinton was in my country when this happened. Maybe it was some organised justification to go into Iraq. One thing I do know, the majority of Australians did not want our government to send troops to Iraq. It's not our war. But if we didn't back the US, and we got into trouble ourselves (eg: invaded by Indonesia), we would not have the US' support to help us out. Cause one thing's for certain, our commonwealth (the poms) wouldn't help us. Just like they didn't help us in Gallipoli, WW1 and WW2. They fed us like lambs to the slaughter. It is clear in history now, if the yanks didn't drop the bomb (Hiroshima), we probably wouldn't even be on this planet. It seems to be a situation of "catch 22" for us Aussies in one respect, though on the other hand, New Zealand were brave enough to stay out of it. Maybe we should've followed suit.