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Lambie agrees with calls to have Iraq invasion decision referred to ICC

Jacqui Lambie says she also agrees with calls to have the leaders of the ‘Coalition of the willing’ – the leaders of the UK, the US and Australia when the decision was made to invade Iraq, also referred to the ICC. Beyond that, she says Australia has never really examined its role in that decision.

I absolutely agree with and when you go in to Iraq, and you say you have a reason to do that … when you work out three years later, that the reason that they were using was not there at all, then we have a massive problem here and you continue to stay in a war that you probably should never have been involved in the first place because you didn’t have that information correct.

Then you have a problem.

If Australia – and both governments we’ve seen it from the Liberal Party and now from the Labor Party – if they’re not prepared to go in and look at senior command, … I’m going to force them to.

Because you are not going to chuck all these diggers under the bus and not [front] up.

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