Kim Beazley Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition
2:40 pm
My question is to the Prime Minister. Did the government know about the plan to preserve certain senior Saddam Hussein Baath Party officials from being purged as part of the Coalition Provisional Authority policy of ‘de-Baathification’ after the Iraq war?
John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
I knew of a scheme to preserve them all. That was the policy of the Australian Labor Party.