Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

I am not sure that a discussion about peak oil, which could take at least several answers, has anything to do with the rest of that question. All I would say is that, with great respect to Mr Greenspan, a gentleman whom I do respect for his record as the US Federal Reserve Governor, he is completely wrong on the issue of the motivation for the action that was taken in Iraq. We continue to believe that what we did with respect to Iraq was right, that our presence there is right, and that what we have done is to bring liberty to the people of Iraq and ensure that the dictator of Iraq could not develop weapons of mass destruction to imperil the free world.