Australian argument ingenuous

Make no mistake, the Australian government will face allegations of involvement in the AWB oil for food scandal or be smeared by lingering doubt about its complicity. The issue has enormous ramifications for the Government’s ability to maintain vital trade links, particularly with the US.  
Acting Prime Minister Mark Vaile’s ingenuous claims that the Government has already been cleared of any wrongdoing by the UN's Volcker inquiry are not going to avert the pressures to come clean.  
There is already documentary evidence, implicating both the Australian and US administrations in this outrage. More to the point, the US wheat lobby wants blood, and will use all its resources to get it.
Mark Vaile has been Australian Trade Minister long enough now to know how the system works. If he has been lured into the bully politics which typifies Australian government now, he also knows that the US are bigger bullies.
Of course the tactics employed by the Australian Government are transparent enough; feed a few scapegoats into the fire, then stall until the whole thing dies down. Lie? Well why not if lying is going to help the process.
The tactics are becoming second nature to this essentially corrupt government. They are spawned out of the second rate politicians, we seem to be elevating the world over to, who lack the ability and the balls to discharge their wider responsibilities effectively.
The point Vaile, Prime Minister Howard, and the rest of the government, must realize that they are trying to play against the experts and they will fail.
It is bad enough that Australia’s biggest agribusiness is mixed up in corruption. We used to expect something better from our national leaders.