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

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) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I knew of a scheme to preserve them all. That was the policy of the Australian Labor Party.