The Guardian August 27, 2003


Nailing Howard's lies

At the Senate inquiry into the Government's spin on intelligence reports 
in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, Andrew Wilkie the former 
intelligence agent who resigned rather than go along with the lies, said 
the Australian Government "skewed, misrepresented, used selectively and 
fabricated" the intelligence. "Sometimes the exaggeration was so great it 
was clear dishonesty", he said.

Words and phrases qualifying intelligence assessments, such as "probably", 
"could" and "uncorroborated evidence suggests" were frequently dropped from 
reports. "Words like 'massive' and 'mammoth' were included [instead]".

The reality is that no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, 
either before or after the invasion.

Howard, Blair and Bush are now attempting to blame the intelligence 
community to cover up their lies.

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