Opaline, I really don't think Hicks' book would be as balanced...

Opaline, I really don't think Hicks' book would be as balanced and unbiased as you assert. Anyone willing to train with a terrorist organisation and straight out lie to his father does not fall into my category of the most honourable and trustworthy of men.

Could the Howard government handled the situation better, naturally? Would the pinheads on the left side of politics have acted differently, of-course not?

No matter how much you hate Howard, you simply cannot blame him for the abhorrent actions of the moronic David Hicks.