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Iraq War Inquiry

The hon. Gentleman may be aware that five years ago, another of the United States' very junior parties carried out an independent inquiry, in February 2004, into the pre-Iraq intelligence and the threat of weapons of mass destruction. That inquiry felt that that evidence may have been "overstated". It also felt that the conservative Government in Australia were "more measured" than their alliance partners, who had not always accurately portrayed the intelligence that they had received. Which of the alliance partners does the hon. Gentleman think the Australian Government may have been thinking about?