John Reid
John Reid
applaud bravery help willing
We applaud the bravery of someone willing to help put an end to abuse.
healthy living manner opportunity promoting scale unseen
We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.
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We believe that there are elements of Iranian society - I put it no higher than that - who may well be associated with the attacks on British troops,
afghan democracy economy firing happy help leave people perfectly protect south three time
We're in the south to help and protect the Afghan people to reconstruct their economy and democracy. We would be perfectly happy to leave in three year's time without firing one shot.
cut designs imperial nor occupying run stay
We do not have designs to stay (in Iraq) as an occupying imperial power. Nor are we going to cut and run because of terrorists,
iraq job problems solve takes until
We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq, ... until the job is done.
legal procedure sure worked
We're not sure all that legal procedure has worked all that well at the tribunal.
based forces local plain
We have always made plain that any withdrawal of forces will be based on local conditions, not some immutable timetable,
condition hand lead
When that condition has been met, we will hand over the lead in counter-terrorism to the Iraqis,
commander happened incident iraqi police pretend reflects spot stand
While we take what happened seriously, and I stand by everything that our commander on the spot did, don't let's take one incident like that and try to pretend that it reflects the whole of even the Iraqi police force,
dark facing iraq time troops
Troops are facing a dark time in Iraq but we won't quit,
attempts certain course despite destroy forces including iraqi next places process relatively saying terrorist
We are not saying that everyone will be out by the end of 2006 but we are saying that this process - despite the terrorist attempts to destroy it - is going relatively well, and, in the course of the next year, we could well see the handover to Iraqi forces at certain places in Iraq, including in our own area,
buy company concern plain receive
We made it plain that any company which did come in and buy this as a going concern would receive the appropriate support.
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When I got here, we were practicing against bags, ... Players were holding up bags because we couldn't practice against other players. They weren't big enough. Now we're building depth and creating quality players in practice.