THE DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT!
Prime Minister John Howard says voters will decide whether he has told the truth about the children overboard incident.
But most voters have already decided that former ministerial adviser Mike Scrafton has contradicted Howard's recollection of conversations just days before the 2001 election and says he has been vindicated by a lie detector test.
Mr Scrafton says he told Howard three days before the 2001 election that there was no evidence asylum seekers had thrown their children overboard and no-one in defence believed the claim.
Howard tells lies it's a well known fact and he has incorporated terror and the Devil into the Australian way of life like it was 'normal' and as a result all Australians live with fear and will suffer by having to try 10 times harder in order to achieve their goals. Shame Howard Shame!
Mr Scrafton says the lie detector test he took this week backs his claims.
"Categorically, the issue was I think decided by the polygraph that my account of events has been justified," Mr Scrafton said.
However, Howard says he does not need to undergo a similar test.
"I will submit myself to the great lie detector test in Australian politics and that is the collective judgment of my fellow Australians," he said.
Mr Scrafton says another former senior bureaucrat is prepared to come forward to support his claims.
"A former public servant of similar level to me at the time who I spoke to the day directly after the events I'm talking about," he said.
Labor and the Democrats want to re-open a Senate investigation into the children overboard incident.
Mr Scrafton says he and his former colleague are prepared to give evidence.
He says Mr Howard's former foreign affairs adviser Miles Jordana witnessed the telephone call and should also give evidence to the proposed inquiry.
Howard doesn't have to prove he's a liar because the community already know it by the fire coming out of his head.
By Howard Out 18 August 04
SO PUT YOUR LEFT FOOT FORWARD THIS FEDERAL ELECTION "WITHOUT FEAR" AND "LIES" AND VOTE 1 THE GREENS AND 2 THE LIE DETECTORS.
TO LIVE WITH FEAR IS A LIFE HALF LIVED AND TO LIVE WITH LIES MAKES IT 10 TIMES HARDER TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS!
Written and authorised by the community.
Not happy, John
John Valder's alarm whistle effort 'let love be thy weapon' indeed Prime Minister John Howard is also the subject of a stinging attack in a Sunday feature this week, from the man who first engineered his ascent to the Liberal leadership in the mid-1980s former party president John Valder.
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Here is a new project
1. Do you believe it is right to imprison innocent children?
2. Do you believe it is right to imprison innocent women?
3. Do you believe it is right to imprison innocent people?
