Results 1-10 of 10 for iraq speaker:Bob Blizzard

Latin America (2 May 2006)

Bob Blizzard: .... That leads me to a further point: how we as a country are all too often seen by the people and the politicians in Latin America. We are sometimes, sadly, seen only as America's partner in Iraq. As we know, people in south America do not particularly like President Bush and did not agree with the invasion. We therefore have a job to do to enable people in Latin America to see us as we...

Latin America (2 May 2006)

Bob Blizzard: ...I believe that the strategy is good and right, and I want it to succeed. However, if it is to do so, there must be no more decline or withdrawal. We know that extra resources had to be diverted to Iraq for reconstruction. Many of us did not support going into Iraq, but we are there and have to reconstruct, so we understand why those resources were necessary. Hopefully, things will get a...

Written Answers — Defence: Media Coverage (Iraq War) (30 Jun 2004)

Mr Bob Blizzard: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on discussions with media organisations on coverage of non-embedded reporting during the Iraq war.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Brazil (15 Jun 2004)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...democratic Government can deliver and succeed in Brazil? For both those reasons, may I suggest to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State that if he does have a life beyond the middle east, Iraq and the European constitution, he should give some priority to visiting Brazil?

Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...the legal basis for war with the position adopted by his Front-Bench spokesmen in the months leading up to it? They wanted Parliament to support the President of the United States in a war against Iraq whatever the UN said and before any dossiers or legal opinions were put in the public domain.

Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)

Mr Bob Blizzard: On 18 March, at the end of an historic debate in the Chamber, I voted for a motion that said that the case for war had not yet been made. I then voted against the motion to authorise war against Iraq. To vote that way, I resigned my humble position as a Parliamentary Private Secretary. It was not an easy decision. I had supported the Government on every single vote for which I was able to be...

Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...understand why the world suddenly decided 10 or 12 years later that it had to act on the grounds of preventing genocide. I put it to the House that none of the criteria that I outlined applied to Iraq. I made a judgment not to support the war and because I believed that one cannot compromise one's views on war, I voted accordingly. I made my judgment and other hon. Members made...

Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...whether it was right to deal with it in such a way at that time, which is what this debate is about. My hon. Friend's intervention is relevant to the fact that the decision to rush into the war on Iraq had a negative consequence on the war on terrorism because the international coalition that had been so strong and widespread after 9/11 was seriously damaged. Before the war, we were...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (7 Nov 2002)

Mr Bob Blizzard: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total cost to date is of maintaining the British force in support of the no-fly zone in Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (7 Apr 1998)

Mr Bob Blizzard: What assessment he has made of the progress of weapons inspectors in Iraq since the UN Secretary-General's agreement with Saddam Hussein. [36544]