Alexander Downer (Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

This is a Leader of the Opposition who has changed his position on the Iraq issue many times. He claims that we went to war in Iraq on a lie; he claimed that today. The Jull committee produced a report which made it clear that the government did not distort the intelligence. Indeed, it concluded that the presentation by the Australian government was more moderate and more measured than that of either of its alliance partners.

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