If I were still prime minister, we wouldn't be withdrawing from Iraq says former Australian Prime Minister John Howard in a The Sydney Morning Herald article.
Howard went on to say of his decision to unlawfully invade Iraq in the face of considerable opposition from the Australian people; "It was hard; very, very, very hard. It was very much my decision." It was a decision influenced "partly by the fact I had been in America at the time of the [September 11] attack and because of what terrorism represented".
John Howard is stuck with an eternal defence (no matter how simplistic or revisionist) of his decision to go to war because complaints to The Hague just won't go away.
ICCACTION ha reportedly sought a "legal brief" that it intends to forward to the court.
ICCACTION brief of May 2008 is here.
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