John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The claim made in the question by the Leader of the Opposition that the government let Australian money buy Saddam’s bullets is quite untrue, and it has been demonstrated to be untrue. I know it has been the mantra of the Labor Party, and I know the Labor Party is intensely disappointed that Mr Cole did not find as the Labor Party wanted Mr Cole to find, but that claim is absolutely false. It has been demonstrated to be false by the findings of the Cole inquiry. If the advice of those opposite—more of others than of the Leader of the Opposition, and I at least concede that the Leader of the Opposition was a fence-sitter inside the Labor Party when it came—

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