Abstract
WHEN he sent our forces to help invade Iraq, John Howard was sure they would not be there long: months, not years, he said. Last week his new Defence Minister, Brendan Nelson, was visiting the troops still in Iraq three years after the invasion. And he made it clear he expected them to stay a lot longer still. I'm sure Dr Nelson is right. So how and why was John Howard so wrong? The conventional view, fed by an acrimonious flood of critical "I told you so" memoirs and analyses, is that a brilliantly successful invasion was followed by a hopelessly ill-planned and mismanaged occupation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 1pp |
| No. | March 14, 2006 |
| Specialist publication | The Age |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |