Alexander Downer (Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I will tell you what a definition of failure would be. A definition of failure would be to pull all troops out of Iraq and allow all of that country—with violence already throughout much of the country, particularly the Sunni triangle—to be inflamed in a massive and horrific civil war, to see hundreds of thousands of people killed in that conflict—

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