Proceeding contribution from Paul Flynn (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 10 October 2006. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Iraq and Afghanistan Update.
Iraq and Afghanistan Update
How can we win the hearts and minds of the people in Helmand when the majority believe that we are there to get rid of their main source of income? With Karzai increasingly appointing warlords, ex-Taliban leaders, criminals and drug dealers as police chiefs and provincial governors, is not the likelihood that oppression by these provincial governors and police chiefs will greatly increase the danger to our soldiers? Should we not rethink the mission to consolidate the real progress made elsewhere in Afghanistan, because escalation could result in a situation that develops into NATO’s Vietnam?
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- 2005-06
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- Armed forces Deployment Defence equipment Iraq Pay Peacekeeping operations Afghanistan NATO Reconstruction Taliban Basra ISAF Selly Oak Hospital
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