Election 2016: Shadow of long-forgotten Iraq falls over campaign

 afr.com:

"The 2003 decision to invade Iraq was just as controversial then as it remains today, in the US, the UK and in Australia.

Part of the political drama that played out here involved an officer of an arm of Australia's national security establishment. In the Office of National Assessments, Andrew Wilkie resigned in protest in early 2003 at what he claimed was government manipulation of intelligence material on Iraq (and became an MP in 2010)."



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