Results 1-7 of 7 for iraq speaker:Mr Nigel Beard

Armed Forces Personnel (13 May 2004)

Mr Nigel Beard: ...to be the best-trained, most skilled and most disciplined military force in the world. That character and capability have been displayed in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone and Kosovo, and twice in Iraq. It is a humane, confident and professionally effective force of which, with good reason, Britain can be proud. That reputation should be in no way diminished by the media's treatment of...

Armed Forces Personnel (13 May 2004)

Mr Nigel Beard: ..., is being exploited to gain political advantage. Let us just look at the troubled waters in which the cynical opportunists are fishing. We are within two months of sovereignty being passed to an Iraqi Government who, six months later, will hold elections for the whole of Iraq. The extremists do not want either of those things to happen. Iraqi sovereignty removes a grievance that they can...

Lord Hutton's Report (4 Feb 2004)

Mr Nigel Beard: ...of State for Defence. They were told Andrew Gilligan's story—that the September 2002 dossier had been changed not by intelligence experts, but by the Government, to include a claim that Iraq's chemical and biological weapons could be deployed within 45 minutes. Furthermore, they were told that the Government knew that claim to be false, but included it to persuade people to support...

Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)

Mr Nigel Beard: We had no call for a judicial inquiry when troops went into Kosovo, Afghanistan or Sierra Leone. Why, then, is this inquiry needed for Iraq? The Franks inquiry has been quoted as a precedent, but why should a precedent from 20 years ago guide us? The circumstances of the Falklands war were very different from the invasion of Iraq. That war came out of the blue after substantial errors were...

Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)

Mr Nigel Beard: ...ships and not sending any cruisers to sea to persuade the Argentines that we were serious. The case for an inquiry may be to establish the facts that led to the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Or it may be an investigation of the decisions based on the evidence available. Those two are quite different. I want to explore both of those potential justifications for the proposed judicial...

Defence in the United Kingdom (11 Sep 2003)

Mr Nigel Beard: ...to give him a last chance to co-operate last November. That is why I believe that Britain and the United States were right not to allow the situation to drift. We should not allow controversy over Iraq to obscure the wider issue of a defence policy that is directed at the terrorist attacks that the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner have warned...

Bills Presented: Defence Policy (28 Oct 1997)

Mr Nigel Beard: ...the Navy had major roles in operations to defend NATO's flanks in Norway and Turkey. However, there is now no threat to Norway and I question whether any potential threat to Turkey from Syria or Iraq could justify a significant naval force. On what basis, therefore, can the present size of the Navy be justified? Amphibious forces, including amphibious ships and the Royal Marines, are...