Proceeding contribution from Bernard Jenkin (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 1 April 2008. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Iraq.
Iraq
May I remind the Secretary of State of what the Select Committee on Defence heard last time we were in Iraq? The military advice, to which he keeps referring, was that that 5,000 was the minimum viable number for the base in Basra. Was it not therefore the height of folly to advertise a reduction in the number of troops in Basra in advance of withdrawal, even if that were the Government's intention? Does not that leave us more vulnerable than we would have been, having advertised weakness and invited the intervention of hostile forces?
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- 2007-08
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