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

He said it as an empirical fact. He said, ‘Don’t believe the intelligence; believe what the scientists have to say about it.’ So let me say, as I said yesterday, that the former officer is entitled, as is any Australian, to have his views about the Iraq war, but the claim made by the Leader of the Opposition that in some way we allowed our money to buy Saddam’s bullets is not only a slur on the government and a slur on many people associated with the government but it has been proved totally wrong, a complete falsehood, by the findings of the commissioner.

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