The New Statesman gets the memo a few years late:
It’s official: Blair’s government set out to deceive us about Iraq.
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The New Statesman article should be sent to every member of the Federal Parliament with the question; “Are you going to be continually sucked into war in the Middle East, like the Howard government lot, or are you going to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan NOW and tell Bush, to go Shove it”?
Mallee.