Aussie Forces Should Leave Iraq, For Iraq's Sake:

"Defence Force chief General Peter Cosgrove has reportedly told a function in Sydney that replacing foreign troops in Iraq with local security forces would significantly reduce the level of violence in the country. Mr Latham told Channel Nine that General Cosgrove is right and his comments support Labor's case.

'It's a point I've been making for some time that a lot of the violence in Iraq is obviously uprising against the reality or perception of foreign occupation and if you reduce or eliminate that foreign occupation you eliminate a lot of the violence so I would have thought it's a commonsense proposition,' he said."