John Reid
John Reid
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The death of this British soldier in Iraq deeply saddens me. All our thoughts and sympathies are with the family at this very difficult time.
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The decision is never an easy one, and I think recent history teaches us it is impossible in most cases to predict where your enemy will come from.
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I understand also that the Minister of the Interior, at the highest level, instructed that they should be (handed over), that the local judicial authorities said the same,
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He's on our radar but we haven't yet committed in any form. We're still thinking that one through.
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I don't think that anybody has ever suggested our troops will be out of Iraq by next May, ... What I have said is in the course of next year there could be the start of the process of the handover to the Iraqis.
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Georgia is becoming more of a bike destination, ... And gee, if gas goes any higher, everybody's going to be on a bike or a skateboard or something.
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Any withdrawal of forces will be based on local conditions, not some immutable timetable, ... This will mean a transition, a process, not a peremptory decision or a one-off event.
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I hope that any country near or bordering Iraq itself would be doing nothing that is or could be construed as assisting terrorists,
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In that game, yeah, it's tough to lose Warren.
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I freely admit to you that I expect that the terrorists will get more frenetic, more frantic
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I want to make sure if our armed forces are going to play a greater role in the world than previously that we give them the welfare, the numbers and the equipment that they need.
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Their primary mission will not be to go chasing Taliban all over the country,
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In the course of next year, there could be the start of the process of the handover to the Iraqis.
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In our history we have faced enemies before which have embraced some of these methods. Never, though, have we faced an enemy that embraced them all on such a scale.