Ex-spy Andrew Wilkie exposes Aust. Government lies over WMDs
'There needs to be an inquiry held in Australia as a matter of some urgency. Not least because the governments in the US, the UK and Australia sold us this war on the basis of Iraq's massive weapons of mass destruction program, a program that hasn't been found as yet and no matter what's found now, it's not likely to be 'massive' as described by our own PM... The Office of National Assessments has made it clear to the Government for years that some of the material coming out of the US needed to be regarded with great scepticism... More recently, there was obvious political interference in the intelligence process in the US... there was no doubt in our Government's mind - and this is something that was communicated to the Government clearly - there was no doubt in our Government's mind that the US's main interest in 'doing' Iraq was a vast range of US strategic and US domestic interests and had very little to do with WMD. They were using WMD shamelessly to mask their real reasons for the war and my concern is that in Australia, our government was using the weapons of mass destruction story to mask its real reasons for going to war, which was a preparedness to support the US at any cost.'

Ex-spy Andrew Wilkie exposes Aust. Government lies over WMDs
'There needs to be an inquiry held in Australia as a matter of some urgency. Not least because the governments in the US, the UK and Australia sold us this war on the basis of Iraq's massive weapons of mass destruction program, a program that hasn't been found as yet and no matter what's found now, it's not likely to be 'massive' as described by our own PM... The Office of National Assessments has made it clear to the Government for years that some of the material coming out of the US needed to be regarded with great scepticism... More recently, there was obvious political interference in the intelligence process in the US... there was no doubt in our Government's mind - and this is something that was communicated to the Government clearly - there was no doubt in our Government's mind that the US's main interest in 'doing' Iraq was a vast range of US strategic and US domestic interests and had very little to do with WMD. They were using WMD shamelessly to mask their real reasons for the war and my concern is that in Australia, our government was using the weapons of mass destruction story to mask its real reasons for going to war, which was a preparedness to support the US at any cost.'