House debates Questions without Notice

Oil for Food Program

Tuesday, 28 November 2006 House of Representatives

John Howard

John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

2:54 pm

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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