John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

the circumstances where it will be possible for the Iraqi security forces to provide in time the protection that is needed so that we can be reasonably confident that the people of Iraq can embrace the democracy they so clearly have voted for.

That has always been our goal: to give the people of Iraq a bit of hope. You want to deny them a future. You want to deny them any hope. You want to condemn them to the violence and chaos which everybody from Baker through to General Pace through to the Prime Minister of Iraq through to the head of the CNN bureau in Baghdad, reported this morning on Radio National—

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