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  Iraq - Select committee inquiry - rejected
  
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  <p>Those voting Aye put a new motion before the house to replace the one that was rejected in <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2006-10-31&number=330">Division 330</a>.  The new motion said:</p>
  
  <blockquote>This House, recognising that there have already been four separate independent committees of inquiry into military action in Iraq and recognising the importance of learning all possible lessons from military action in Iraq and its aftermath, declines at this time, whilst the whole effort of the Government and the armed forces is directed towards improving the condition of Iraq, to make a proposal for a further inquiry which would divert attention from this vital task.</blockquote>
  
  <p>This motion passed automatically.</p>
  
  <p>The four "independent" inquiries into military action in Iraq are:
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmfaff/813/81302.htm"> The Foreign Affairs Committee - The Decision to go to war in Iraq</a> of July 2003, which concluded that the accuracy of most of the claims in relation to Iraq's nuclear weapons programme could only be judged once the Iraq Survey Group has gained access to the relevant scientists and documentation.  None of the claims turned out to be accurate, once the ISG published its final report.
  </li>
  <li><a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/publications/reports/isc/iwmdia.pdf">Intelligence and Security Committee - Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction  Intelligence and Assessments</a> of September 2003, which was a report that "does not judge whether the decision to invade Iraq was correct".</li>
  <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry">The Hutton Inquiry</a> of January 2004, whose terms of reference was to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Kelly.
  <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Inquiry">The Butler Review</a> of July 2004, which was seen as unnecessarily restrictive by all the opposition parties because the role of politicians had been excluded from its remit.
  </li>
  </ul>
  </p>
  
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