Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. I refer to the comments of former key tactical planner for the Special Air Service, Peter Tinley, that the Iraq war is immoral and that it was and is a cynical use of the Defence Force by the Howard government. I ask the minister what his response is to this statement by a man right at the thick of the planning for the Iraq war. Directly, is it not a cynical use of the Defence Force by the Howard government? If it is not, could the minister say how it is not?