Australia's Iraq war case damned

[ze_dscherman]

Australia relied on "thin, ambiguous and incomplete" intelligence to go to war in Iraq, according to an inquiry.

But the independent report by Philip Flood, a diplomat and former spy master, clears Prime Minister John Howard of "politicising" intelligence.

Its conclusions echo those reached by separate US and UK inquiries prompted by the failure to find the banned Iraqi weapons that formed the case for war.

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Prime Minister Howard commissioned Mr Flood's inquiry in March, on the recommendation of a parliamentary committee investigating the role Australia's spy agencies had played in the build-up to war.

SNIP

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3915759.stm

Looks like this Iraq thing was a conspiracy of gung-ho intelligence! /sarcasm off

[no safe haven]

1. Yep...

The Three Stooges all have to keep their stories straight.

[mom cat]

2. Hi there and welcome to DU.It's an addiction, but a good one.

:hi:

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Sounds like the same reason why Howard and others should fall

Once again, we see a so-called leader willing to be misled by US Bush neocon intelligence that was manufactured for the purpose of falsely justifying a colonial invasion of a sovereign state.

For being a willing fool to Bush and the neocons, the Australian voters should reward Howard accordingly.

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Berlusconi
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