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

If the coalition withdraws from Iraq in the way the Labor Party wants it to, then Iraq will be condemned to endless additional violence. Not only will it be regarded as an enormous victory for terrorism in Iraq but it will destabilise the politics of the Middle East. It will further set back the prospects of a settlement of the Palestinian issue, which is the core of many moderate Islamic concerns not only in the Middle East but around the world. That is the policy of the Australian Labor Party.

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