Cabinet papers from Iraq war period show Howard government saw access to Middle East oil as a key national interest. The newly released papers also show the government planned to reduce troop levels just months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, but worried this would squander 'the benefits' Australia’s high-profile involvement had brought to the alliance. Critics of the war have always claimed other factors, such as Iraq’s plentiful oil supplies, must also have been at play.
A new tranche of 2003 cabinet papers published by the National Archives of Australia on Thursday do not contain any so-called smoking guns, but reveal the inner workings of the alliance between the US and Australia
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