Comments on: All troops should be brought home from Iraq within six months http://www.mingcampbell.org.uk/2007/10/02/all-troops-should-be-brought-home-from-iraq-within-six-months/ Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:07:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: poor bastard soldiers « smokebelch http://www.mingcampbell.org.uk/2007/10/02/all-troops-should-be-brought-home-from-iraq-within-six-months/comment-page-1/#comment-14783 poor bastard soldiers « smokebelch Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:23:39 +0000 http://www.mingcampbell.org.uk/2007/10/02/all-troops-should-be-brought-home-from-iraq-within-six-months/#comment-14783 [...] have never had a clear consistent policy on Iraq. I’m far more prepared to give time to the Liberal Democrat position. If we’re happy British troops are no longer needed, let’s get them all back. And at [...] [...] have never had a clear consistent policy on Iraq. I’m far more prepared to give time to the Liberal Democrat position. If we’re happy British troops are no longer needed, let’s get them all back. And at [...]

]]> By: Rebekah http://www.mingcampbell.org.uk/2007/10/02/all-troops-should-be-brought-home-from-iraq-within-six-months/comment-page-1/#comment-14750 Rebekah Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:27:45 +0000 http://www.mingcampbell.org.uk/2007/10/02/all-troops-should-be-brought-home-from-iraq-within-six-months/#comment-14750 I believe it is time for our troops to be brought home now. There is no useful purpose for them to remain, thus endangering them further. The Iraqis have made it quite plain that they do not want our troops there, otherwise, why are they still being attacked? Although it must be conceded that the removal of Saddam Hussein was necessary, that job could have been done quietly with a small, specially-trained task force. My son was in the the RAF during the first Gulf War - anyone with any intelligence could see then that there would somehow be a 'follow-up' if the US had anything to do with it! This war in Iraq was an illegal war in the first place, the invasion of Iraq did not fulfil the criteria of what is a Just War in anyone's language or creed. Please let us cut loose from the empty rhetoric of the US administration - I hope that, now, our Government can see the folly of such a mistaken alliance. Let us get all our 5,000 Service Personnel home by Christmas so they may be reunited with their families! I believe it is time for our troops to be brought home now. There is no useful purpose for them to remain, thus endangering them further. The Iraqis have made it quite plain that they do not want our troops there, otherwise, why are they still being attacked?

Although it must be conceded that the removal of Saddam Hussein was necessary, that job could have been done quietly with a small, specially-trained task force. My son was in the the RAF during the first Gulf War – anyone with any intelligence could see then that there would somehow be a ‘follow-up’ if the US had anything to do with it!

This war in Iraq was an illegal war in the first place, the invasion of Iraq did not fulfil the criteria of what is a Just War in anyone’s language or creed. Please let us cut loose from the empty rhetoric of the US administration – I hope that, now, our Government can see the folly of such a mistaken alliance.

Let us get all our 5,000 Service Personnel home by Christmas so they may be reunited with their families!

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