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  • 15 - After the Flood: Foreign Policy and the Management of Intelligence

  • from Part 4 - Foreign Policy in the Political Process
  • Edited by James Cotton, University of New South Wales, Sydney, John Ravenhill, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Australia in World Affairs 2001–2005
    Published online:
    04 May 2024, pp 281-299

  • Summary

    On Tuesday 18 March 2003 the Prime Minister John Howard moved a motion in the House of Representatives, in order to advance the government’s claim that Iraq’s ‘possession and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction’ constituted ‘a real and unacceptable threat to international peace and security’, that Australia’s commitment of military forces to the Gulf with the intention of disarming Iraq of weapons of mass destruction as a response to this threat was justified, and that this action was legitimised by successive UN Security Council resolutions, most notably Resolution 1441. The Opposition response was to oppose the motion on the grounds that while the disarmament of Iraq was a desirable objective, unilateral means were to be rejected in favour of entrusting the task to the United Nations.