Iraq was neither implicated in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, nor was it threatening to attack any neighbouring country. In October 2004, the CIA's Iraq Survey Group reported with finality that while Saddam Hussein had harboured ambitions to get weapons of mass destruction, the Iraqi programs to build them had decayed completely. UN sanctions had helped to dismantle them and UN inspections had given an accurate assessment of Saddam's WMD non-capability.
Against this backdrop, Australia needs to conduct an honest and independent inquiry to establish why the country was taken to war in 2003.
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