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War on Iraq: the countdown: Bush's phone call to war
Title : War on Iraq: the countdown: Bush's phone call to war War on Iraq: the countdown: Bush's phone call to war
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Creator : Starick, Paul and Samantha Maiden
Source : Advertiser, 19 March 2003, p. 4
Date of creation : 2003
Format : Newspaper
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Describes the steps taken by the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, on the day Australia committed to the war in Iraq with the US-led 'Coalition of the Willing'.


It reports that Howard had the support of Cabinet to go to war, but met with opposition from members of Australia's other political parties when he informed the Parliament. Also includes an editorial by Paul Starick.
Subjects
Coverage year : 2003
Period : 2001-
Further reading :
Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Iraq: The path ahead, Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 2004

Blix, Hans. Disarming Iraq: the search for weapons of mass destruction, London: Bloomsbury, 2004

Fawn, Rick and Raymond Hinnebusch. The Iraq war : causes and consequences, Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006

Keegan, John. The Iraq war, New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004

Murray, Williamson and Robert H. Scales, Jr. The Iraq war : a military history, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003

Pax, Salam. The Baghdad blog, Melbourne, Victoria: Text Publishing, 2003

Why the war was wrong, Raimond Gaita (ed.); with contributions by Robert Manne ... [et al.], Melbourne, Victoria: Text Publishing, 2003

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