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Mr Rudd said Prime Minister John Howard "stands condemned" for taking Australia to war with an under-resourced intelligence community. "The key statement contained in this report is as follows that `intelligence in Iraq was thin, it was ambiguous and it was incomplete'," he said. "But based on this thin, ambiguous and incomplete intelligence, John Howard decided to take Australia to war." Mr Rudd said the Flood report confirmed that when Australia was preparing for war the prime minister's own intelligence agency, the ONA, had three or four intelligence officers working on Iraq.
Block Quote=>Mr Rudd said Prime Minister John Howard "stands condemned" for taking Australia to war with an under-resourced intelligence community. "The key statement contained in this report is as follows that `intelligence in Iraq was thin, it was ambiguous and it was incomplete'," he said. "But based on this thin, ambiguous and incomplete intelligence, John Howard decided to take Australia to war." Mr Rudd said the Flood report confirmed that when Australia was preparing for war the prime minister's own intelligence agency, the ONA, had three or four intelligence officers working on Iraq.