Howard says Iraq troop commitment stays
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SYDNEY - Prime Minister John Howard said on Monday that national security and keeping Australia&#39;s booming economy strong would be the priorities of his fourth term, and that he had no plans for major changes in the number of troops Australia has in Iraq.
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SYDNEY : Australian Prime Minister John Howard was defiant about his support for the war in Iraq despite a new report&#39;s finding that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, the basis for the invasion.
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Prime Minister John Howard's fracas with Senator Barack Obama of Illinois provoked a third straight day of political recriminations yesterday, as the Australian leader told parliament that the pledge by the Democratic presidential candidate to withdraw troops from Iraq would only invite more bloodshed.
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SYDNEY -- On one side is the incumbent, a conservative career politician who steadfastly defends his decision to send troops to Iraq.
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PM in waiting uses surprise trip to Iraq to pledge that security and intelligence would in future be kept independent of the political process.
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Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday that he would not withdraw troops from Iraq as demanded by militants who claim to have taken two Australians hostage and threatened to execute them within 24 hours.
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Fresh from an Iraq drop-in, President Bush is bringing conviction that his troop buildup strategy is working to one of his few remaining staunch war allies, Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
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PRIME Minister John Howard today rejected claims warnings from a top weapons expert were ignored before Australia sent troops to war in Iraq.
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Australian PM John Howard stands by his decision to join the US-led war on Iraq, ahead of Saturday's election.
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Australia&#39;s Prime Minister John Howard has reaffirmed a commitment to the war on terror as services were held around the nation to commemorate the second anniversary of terror attacks on the Indonesian island of Bali.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday repeated his vow to keep about 550 troops in Iraq after the government confirmed that the decapitated body found on a street
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard Sunday denied he planned to suddenly withdraw troops from Iraq, saying the idea was &quot;absurd&quot;.
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Japan will keep its troops in Iraq for another year, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Thursday, even though most voters want to end what is the nation&#39;s riskiest military mission since World War II.
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Britain said on Thursday its troops will stay in Iraq for as long as required by the Iraqi authorities, denying a newspaper report that it was urging Washington to give a provisional timetable for a pull-out.
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The defence secretary is to stress his determination that British troops remain in Iraq no longer than necessary.
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Prime Minister John Howard, fresh from winning an election mandate to keep Australian troops in Iraq as long as needed, said Monday he would keep his foreign minister and make the war on terror a top priority of his fourth term.
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Prime Minister John Howard, fresh from winning an election mandate to keep Australian troops in Iraq as long as needed, accepted congratulations from President Bush and began planning his fourth term Sunday.