Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes the Prime Minister’s false basis for Australia’s decision to go to war in Iraq;

(2)

notes the Prime Minister’s misuse of intelligence material to justify his decision to send Australian service personnel into active duty in Iraq;

(3)

notes the Prime Minister’s failure to articulate a clear-cut mission statement for Australia’s continued participation in the Iraq war;

(4)

notes the Prime Minister’s failure to develop a clear-cut exit strategy from the war based on that mission statement;

(5)

notes the Prime Minister’s refusal to explain to the Parliament and the people of Australia his strategy for winning the war in Iraq;

(6)

notes the Prime Minister’s attack on the alternate administration of the United States of America and majority party in the United States Congress as Al Qaeda’s party of choice; and

(7)

calls on the Prime Minister to accept the Leader of the Opposition’s challenge to a nationally televised debate on Labor’s plan to bring our troops home and the Prime Minister’s plan to leave our troops in Iraq indefinitely.

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