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Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Mental Health (21 Jul 2009)

Clare Short: ...his latest estimate is of the incidence of (a) post-traumatic stress disorder and (b) other mental illnesses among soldiers in each age group who have served in (i) Bosnia, (ii) Kosovo, (iii) Iraq and (iv) Afghanistan.

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Clare Short: ...problems of the coming decades will be extremely limited, and I think that that humiliates us. This is an enormously profound and serious question. As I believe the inquiry will show, if we went to Iraq because we wanted to please President Bush—or because Tony Blair wanted to please him—there is a danger that that error will be repeated. Happily, America, after a big...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Clare Short: ...challenges will be broken and weakened, with desperately serious consequences for all of us. We need an inquiry that forces all parties and the public to face up to the fact that we got involved in Iraq because George Bush and the neo-conservatives wanted to overthrow the unpopular regime of Saddam Hussein—regime change—and establish a friendly power in Iraq, so that they could...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Clare Short: ...General is appointed is unsafe, and our constitutional arrangements need restructuring. That is one of the important issues to which the inquiry must attend. It is often argued that the invasion of Iraq went well and was welcomed by all, but then went wrong, and that what went wrong, as the hon. Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood), who was previously in the armed forces, suggested,...

Gaza (21 Jan 2009)

Clare Short: ...was necessary because Israel has a right of defence against Hamas rockets. That justification of the attack is deeply dishonest. It is as big an untruth as were the claims about the need for war in Iraq. Two sets of facts are important when we assess Israel's excuse for its attack. For the past seven years, from when rocket attacks began up to 27 December when Israel attacked Gaza, those...

Gaza (15 Jan 2009) has video

Clare Short: ...out of the picture and is never brought to public attention. So all these claims that the rockets justify the attack or that Hamas would not agree a ceasefire are untrue. Just as in the case of the Iraq war, the slaughter is justified by a constant litany of lies. That is one of the things that is enraging young Muslims in our country and across the world. Once we were in Gaza, we met the...

Middle East Peace Process (26 Jun 2007)

Clare Short: ...access to the EU market. I wish that we would make use of that for everyone's benefit. I fear continuing bloodshed and suffering, and further destabilisation of the middle east. The situation in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories is fuelling the anger of the Muslim world, which is acting as a recruiting sergeant for the ugly ideology of Osama bin Laden and those who advocate...

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Clare Short: I strongly believe that it is essential to establish an independent inquiry into the route to war in Iraq and its aftermath for a number of profoundly important reasons. The first is that the terrible suffering, loss of life and displacement of people in Iraq continues, as does the death and injury of our soldiers and American soldiers—with no end in sight. There is no serious exit...

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Clare Short: ...the people in the UK believe that they were lied to about the reasons for the war. Troops are still being deployed, and soldiers are still being injured, losing their lives and taking the lives of Iraqis for reasons that the majority in this country disbelieve. Our troops find that very distressing. A year or so ago, I was stopped in Whitehall by an officer in civilian clothes, who said...

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Clare Short: ...a healthy disrespect for politicians in this country, but now it nears contempt. We need to be honest about what has happened, and to change our institutional arrangements as well as our policy in Iraq, in order to get back the faith and respect of the people of the UK.

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Clare Short: The coalition is incapable of bringing stability to Iraq. That is the crisis and we need to examine how we got here in order to find another way forward. The instability is getting increasingly worse.

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Clare Short: ...the back of a speech about the economy his support for a replacement for Trident, without any proper debate about Britain's foreign policy and its role in the world after the disastrous mistakes in Iraq. Secondly, there is no argument in the White Paper, in the Prime Minister's introduction to the White Paper, or in the speech by the Conservative spokesman, that could not be reasonably...

[Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] — Lebanon and Syria (27 Feb 2007)

Clare Short: .... As I observed the wanton destruction, I again felt deeply ashamed of the refusal of the UK Government to call on Israel to cease its bombardment of Lebanon. I also reflected on the fact that Iraq is, I believe, still paying compensation for the damage that it caused during its invasion of Kuwait a long time ago. Israel has caused massive damage and destruction in Lebanon, but I have...

[Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] — Lebanon and Syria (27 Feb 2007)

Clare Short: ...is a neighbour of ours and we would very much like to see a settlement in the whole region." Discussion by commentators on the middle east always tries to highlight Syria and Iran as interfering in Iraq and as a destructive influence. The President pointed out that the US, the UK and others came from a long way away, but that the Syrians live in the region and have to have relationships...

[Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] — Lebanon and Syria (27 Feb 2007)

Clare Short: ...should strengthen our relations and challenge the US vilification of Syria and the Syrian regime. As I made clear, I hope that we will wholeheartedly and actively support the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group to bring about a properly organised end to the occupation of Iraq and a peace settlement throughout the middle east, particularly over Israel and Palestine. My fear is that the...

Opposition Day: [Un-allotted Half-Day] — Iraq (31 Oct 2006)

Clare Short: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we do not have an exit strategy on Iraq, and that the chaos can continue for many years to come? Does he agree that if we are to decide on an exit strategy, we first need to know why we were there, and does he agree that we should not accede to the American aspiration to set up permanent bases, which will almost certainly mean a permanent insurgency?

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read. — [Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.] (21 Oct 2005)

Clare Short: ...should not be war at any price. Many other people thought that we should back up the authority of the UN with the threat of military action to get sanctions lifted, Saddam Hussein indicted and Iraq transformed. Anyone taking that position would have supported the earlier motions. Of course, we now know that Blix was reporting that Iraq had complied and I am afraid that the House was misled...

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read. — [Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.] (21 Oct 2005)

Clare Short: ...the war were well advanced before it was ever brought before the House. However, American public opinion, which was misled into thinking that the attack on the twin towers had been organised out of Iraq, was showing 80 per cent. in favour of war in a coalition but a majority against going it alone. The tragedy is that if Britain had used its influence better, the whole crisis might have...

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read. — [Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.] (21 Oct 2005)

Clare Short: ...a war, which happened, for example, under the Attlee Government over the Korean war, under the Major Government over the 1991 Gulf war and under the Blair Government more recently, just before the Iraq war, he has the constitutional right to ignore a defeat on a parliamentary vote if he so wishes.

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read. — [Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.] (21 Oct 2005)

Clare Short: ...Library briefing is absolutely clear that the Prime Minister decides whether to allow a vote and has the absolute power to ignore the result of that vote. If the vote had gone against the recent Iraq war, the Prime Minister could still have gone on with the war. That is a remarkable and extraordinary state of affairs. The more that I thought about this situation, the more I concluded that,...