House debates Questions without Notice

Iraq

Wednesday, 18 October 2006 House of Representatives

Alexander Downer

Alexander Downer Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs

2:34 pm

It is not a failure for new television services to be set up. It is not a failure for new teachers to be trained. It is not a failure for children to be inoculated. It is not a failure to have seven million new mobile phone subscribers. It is not a failure to get the first World Bank loan in 30 years. It is not a failure to get oil production up to prewar levels. It is not a failure to have trained 302,000 members of the Iraqi Security Forces. I will tell you, Mr Speaker, the last thing that is not a failure: it is not a failure to have put Saddam Hussein on trial.

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