Posted on 11/29/2004 7:57:29 PM PST by naturalman1975
AUSTRALIA would keep troops in Iraq until the job was done, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer assured the new Iraqi ambassador yesterday.
During a brief welcoming meeting at Parliament House, Mr Downer told Ghanim Taha Ahmad Al-Shibli that Australia would maintain aid programs and continue to build up trade programs.
"I want to make it clear, and I have made it clear to the ambassador, that we are very firmly committed to a new and democratic Iraq, that we are not going to cut and run," Mr Downer said.
Mr Al-Shibli spent 18 years in exile in the US during Saddam Hussein's reign. He was hand-picked for the job by Iraq's interim PM Iyad Allawi.
The Lefties Down Undah must have their knickers in a twist hearing this! Gotta love it!
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