Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and follows the answer he has just given. Why won’t the foreign minister stand up and admit that he has failed in Iraq—failed to test the prewar intelligence, failed our best friends in Washington by urging the folly of war, failed in planning for the post-combat phase, failed to make Australia safer from terrorist attack and failed to protect at least 50,000 Iraqi civilian lives? Why won’t the foreign minister admit his failures and that he got Australia into this hole, and why won’t he stop digging?

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