Obligation to build a decent Iraq: Cardinal

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30 May 2004

Obligation to build a decent Iraq: Cardinal

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Obligation to build a decent Iraq: Cardinal

CARDINAL George Pell believes Australia has an obligation to try to build a decent society in postwar Iraq.

The cardinal said that while he didn’t endorse the war, now that we are there “we should work, certainly for a significant amount of time, to try to hand over the country to a legitimate and lawful government”.

The cardinal said that he had opposed the war from the outset and had written publicly about his position.

“I said at that stage the case [for war] was not established,” he said.

“They said they were going to Iraq basically on two grounds: that there were weapons of mass destruction there; and that Saddam was actively supporting Al Qaeda. Neither of those two grounds has been established.

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