John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

is to create a situation whereby the people of Iraq, having bravely voted in the most appalling circumstances—including the most appalling intimidation—to embrace democracy, can live, protected by their own military and their own police force. That is the aim. That is the government’s policy. I repeat: it will not be achieved by the precipitate withdrawal of coalition forces, which is the policy of the Australian Labor Party.

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