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Iraq - nuclear
threat |
" The day before U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
is to lay out the case against Iraq at the United Nations, Australian
Prime Minister John Howard told the world his country's intelligence
agencies can confirm Baghdad's links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida
network and its plans to develop nuclear weapons... In a speech
to Parliament, Howard said he was providing to Powell information
he has showing Saddam Hussein is ready to use banned weapons
in the Middle East..."The Australian government knows that
Iraq still has chemical and
biological weapons, and that Iraq wants to develop nuclear
weapons," Howard said. "We share the view of many
that, unless checked, Iraq could even without outside help develop
nuclear weapons in about
five years."" Worldnet
Daily, February 5, 2003 |
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United Nations |
"I’ve been a strong supporter of disarming Iraq
for a long time and unfortunately the United
Nations was not able to summon the sense of unity and courage
to deal with the thing effectively and I have no doubt that
there’s a lot of support in Australia for what we’re
doing, public opinion has shifted quite a bit since we made
our commitment, but in the end our stance has not driven by
opinion polls, it’s being driven by what we believe is
right." John
Howard on Larry King Live, March 28, 2003 |
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Rebuilding Iraq |
Some to be more equal than others "...we believe
that inevitably there must be an interim period of American
supervised administration [post war]. We then see a greater
role for the United Nations. But it has to be a role in our
view that accepts the propriety of what is being done by the
United States and Great Britain and Australia and others, it’s
got to be borne in mind that the countries that have made the
commitment and bought about the disarmament of Iraq and most
particularly but not only the United States has a right to express
a strong view about the post-conflict arrangements." John
Howard on Larry King Live, March 28, 2003 |
John
Howard