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In the years that have gone by there’s been the constant claim that we went to war based on a lie... There was no lie. There were errors in intelligence, but there was no lie.

— John Howard

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As quoted in "John Howard defends taking Australia into Iraq war", Financial Times (7 July 2016)

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