Australia's Howard must win to keep US-led Iraq coalition intact
AFP, October, 2004
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WASHINGTON, (AFP) — Australia's Prime Minister John Howard has to win upcoming elections to prevent a pullout by Canberra from the US-led coalition in Iraq.
Although the Iraq war has not emerged as the central question in the elections, the outcome of the October 9 polls will be significant to Bush, who is determined to keep the Iraq coalition together following the abrupt departures of troops from Spain and the Philippines.
Australian opposition Labor Party leader Mark Latham has vowed to bring the 850 Australian troops home from Iraq by Christmas if he wins the tightly contested elections despite Bush's warning that this would be disastrous.
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"It would be a disastrous decision for the leader of a great country like Australia to say that 'we're pulling out,'" Bush said with his staunch ally Howard by his side during his Washington visit in June.
"It would embolden ...
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