Australia PM says no apologies for Iraq war
245681
CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister John Howard refused today to apologise for joining the US-led invasion of Iraq despite a new US report that said Baghdad had no weapons of mass destruction at the time of the attack.
519566
Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday he bore no responsibility for the violence in Iraq, dismissing allegations from a former ambassador to Baghdad that the British leader failed to focus on stabilizing the country immediately after the invasion.
540248
CANBERRA: Australia has no plans to significantly increase the number of its troops in Iraq and does not expect to be asked to do so by close ally, the United States, newly re-elected Prime Minister John Howard said on Monday.
515598
No Australian troops were injuredin a fatal attack in Mosul, Iraq, that killed at least 22 people, the Australian Defense Force said on Wednesday.
28842
Prime Minister John Howard, one of the staunchest U.S. allies in the war in Iraq, defied predictions about a close race and won a convincing victory for a historic fourth term on Saturday despite widespread public disagreement in Australia with Howard's position on the war.
219464
The Australian government will not move to block a foreign takeover of  airline Qantas, the prime minister says.
682085
PRIME Minister John Howard today rejected claims warnings from a top weapons expert were ignored before Australia sent troops to war in Iraq.
115727
BRIGHTON, England Sept. 28, 2004 - Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged that the war in Iraq has divided Britain but said he had no apologies for helping topple Saddam Hussein in a speech Tuesday to his
466044
LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair denied Wednesday that he misrepresented intelligence about Iraqi weapons before the war, rejecting growing demands in Parliament that he apologize.   "I cannot bring myself to say that I misrepresented the evidence, since I do not accept that I did," Blair said in the House of Commons...
235821
Australian Prime Minister John Howard was defiant about his support for the war in Iraq despite a new report's finding that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, the basis for the invasion.
112473
The Australian PM, Kevin Rudd, makes a formal apology in parliament to the country's Aborigines
666651
SYDNEY, Australia : Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Monday he did not regret a releasing details of an SMS that reportedly warned of an attack minutes before his country&#39;s Jakarta embassy was bombed last week.
737345
Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday defended his government's decision to commit troops to the war in Iraq, saying given his time over again he would make the same decision.
527128
Prime Minister Tony Blair weathered yet another storm over the Iraq conflict on Wednesday, vigorously denying he misled Britain over Iraqi weapons and refusing to apologize for the war.
288717
Australia has no plans for setting a timeline for the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq, Defense Minister Brendan Nelson said Thursday.
272343
Australian Prime Minister John Howard  remained committed on Tuesday to the U.S.-led war on Iraq as  investigations continued into an unconfirmed report that two  Australians had been taken hostage and threatened with  execution.
612359
SYDNEY : Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Thursday refuted claims by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that the Iraq war was &quot;illegal&quot;, saying it had been justified by UN Security Council resolutions.