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Iraq

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

711 c1226-64 

Session

2008-09

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Brett | 711 c1243 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I intervene with trepidation. This is a timed debate and the limit for speaking is five mi...

Lord Addington | 711 c1244 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I put my name down to speak because, when we went to war in Iraq, regardless of the legali...

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Lord Butler of Brockwell | 711 c1244-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join the congratulations and thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, for giving the House...

Lord Sheikh | 711 c1246-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the invasion of Iraq on the side of the USA was one of our most unpopular military actions...

Lord Desai | 711 c1247-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps noble Lords will permit me to say that this is the 18th anniversary of my maiden s...

Lord Hurd of Westwell | 711 c1248 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, would the noble Lord just take into account the approximately 150,000 Iraqis who have been...

Lord Desai | 711 c1248 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, yes, indeed, but what about the number of Iraqis killed under the regime of Saddam Hussein...

Earl of Sandwich | 711 c1248-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Afghanistan war was, to my mind, a necessity, but the Iraq war was an expensive mistak...

Earl Attlee | 711 c1250-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Fowler for introducing this debate. He said that the...

Lord Wright of Richmond | 711 c1251-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in my brief intervention after the Statement three days ago, I asked for an assurance that...

Lord Gilbert | 711 c1252-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is quite apparent that the inquiry announced by the Prime Minister in its present form ...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 711 c1258-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I offer warm thanks to my noble friend Lord Fowler for initiating this debate with excepti...

Lord Malloch-Brown | 711 c1260-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise with humility on two scores. First, it is a tribute to this House, particularly to ...

Lord Ramsbotham | 711 c1254-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to the House that a pressing engagement with an amendment to the Welfare Refor...

Lord Lee of Trafford | 711 c1255-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, on securing this very timely debate. In the p...

Lord Malloch-Brown | 711 c1263-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord has in a way answered his own question. It is precisely the vast scope of t...

Lord King of Bridgwater | 711 c1263 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I may have misunderstood the Minister, but it seems from what he has said and read out fro...

Lord Malloch-Brown | 711 c1263 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Prime Minster has given Sir John Chilcot a certain discretion to find a form that enjo...

Lord Fowler | 711 c1264 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have one or two minutes, and I thank everyone who has spoken. In many ways it has been ...

Lord Fowler | 711 c1226-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is fairly unusual to have two dozen speakers for the second debate on a Thursday aftern...

Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale | 711 c1230-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, for once again giving us an opportunity to discuss Ir...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 711 c1232-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, join in the thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, for introducing this debate, wh...

Lord Steyn | 711 c1233-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I respectfully applaud the fact that this debate has been arranged, as I respectfully appl...

Lord Fowler | 711 c1226 (Link to this contribution) To call attention to the Iraq invasion and lessons for the future; and to move for Papers.

Lord Anderson of Swansea | 711 c1236-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I strike a note of scepticism and discord. I recognise that the Government are honouring a...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 711 c1238-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, you can put some of the great and good into a shuttered room and present them with files a...

Lord King of Bridgwater | 711 c1234-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join in congratulating my noble friend Lord Fowler on initiating this debate. Perhaps I ...

Lord Soley | 711 c1243 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that I just answered that. As I said, it became a matter of law partly for that re...

Lord Soley | 711 c1243 (Link to this contribution) I shall, my Lords, but I have only one minute left.

Lord Burnett | 711 c1243 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise, and I am grateful. I was at that debate as well. Why did the Prime Minister a...

Lord Soley | 711 c1242-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the last time I spoke on this issue was in another debate on a Motion commendably tabled b...

Lord Burnett | 711 c1243 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the noble Lord give way?

Lord Lyell of Markyate | 711 c1240-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too thank my noble friend Lord Fowler for introducing this remarkably timely debate. The...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 711 c1263 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister explain why it is right to hold a public inquiry into the death of one m...

Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 711 c1239-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also pay tribute to our brave service men and women who have done their duty in very dif...

Subjects

Disclosure of information Armed conflict Intelligence services Iraq Peacekeeping operations Politics and government Weapons Iraq Committee of Inquiry Iraq conflict Secrecy

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