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

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s rejection of the bipartisan US Baker-Hamilton strategy recommending a staged withdrawal of US forces to pressure the Iraqis to negotiate a political settlement between the Sunni and the Shia. Why does the Prime Minister reject a strategy that his own Minister for Foreign Affairs greeted as a good piece of work and one that drew all the right conclusions?

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