John Reid
John Reid
committed radar thinking
He's on our radar but we haven't yet committed in any form. We're still thinking that one through.
breakdown british government iraqi trust
There has not been a fundamental breakdown in trust between the British government and the Iraqi government,
breakdown incident
There has not been a fundamental breakdown in trust, ... There has been an incident that will be investigated.
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,
based forces local plain
We have always made plain that any withdrawal of forces will be based on local conditions, not some immutable timetable,
committed iraq stand tough
We will stand by Iraq when times are tough and we will be a committed friend, not a fair-weather friend,
iraq job withdraw
We will withdraw from Iraq when the job is done, not before,
cut half job leave
We will not cut and run. We will not leave the job half done,
conditions happen met period sufficient time until
We will be there until conditions are met for a handover to the Iraqis, when they have sufficient forces. This will not be an event; it will be a process. It will not happen at the same time in every part of the country; it will happen over a period of time,
ammunition clubs interest shown
We have shown an interest in him but if you think it through, other clubs have more (trade) ammunition than we have.
arrested handed happened iraqi law men military police service stands yesterday
What happened yesterday was that two of our service men were arrested by Iraqi police and under the law as it stands they should have been handed back to the military authorities,
time
When you have stability, it will be time to depart,
course
We don't need them (more troops) at the moment, if that's necessary, of course we would do that,