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

in Iraq and in many other countries in the Middle East. It will set back the cause of trying to settle the long-running Palestinian issue which, as everybody who has studied this matter knows, is at the heart of many of the discontents in the Middle East. I am against a policy that gives a victory to the terrorists. I am against a policy that creates further instability in the Middle East and I am against a policy that leads to damage being done to the prestige of our most important ally, the United States. I take full responsibility for being opposed to those policies and I take full responsibility for the policy advocated and implemented by the government I lead.

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