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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>Of the "four separate independent" inquiries, three of them, <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, <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>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry">The Hutton Inquiry</a> were held before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Survey_Group">Iraq Survey Group</a> had conclusively proven that the intelligence on the run-up to the war was false, and the fourth, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Inquiry">The Butler Review</a> of July 2004, was not supported by the opposition parties because it did not have a remit to examine of the political decision making process.</p>
  
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