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- Iraq (24 Jan 2008)
Lord Smith of Finsbury: My Lords, it was with a heavy heart nearly five years ago that I told my own Government and my own Prime Minister that I thought they were making a huge mistake in joining the American invasion of Iraq. I proposed the Motion in another place that brought 130 of my Labour colleagues into the Division Lobby against our own Government. I took no pleasure in doing that, and there are no prizes in...
- Museums (2 Mar 2004)
Mr Chris Smith: ..., city and national levels a sense of identity based on our cultural inheritance. Anyone who doubts the importance of that function need only look at the overwhelming importance to the people of Iraq of the desecration of the national museum in Baghdad. One of the noblest things to come out of the tragedy of the Iraq conflict was the imaginative role played by the British Museum in...
- Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)
Mr Chris Smith: Colleagues will know that I did not support the military action in Iraq at the time that it took place in the way that it happened for the reasons that were stated at the time and without proper international endorsement or support. I remain strongly of that view, but I cannot and will not support the Opposition motion in the Division Lobby tonight. I say that partly because it is a Tory...
- Written Answers — Prime Minister: Iraq (20 Oct 2003)
Mr Chris Smith: ...what commitments he has given to the President of the United States in relation to the UK's financial contribution to (a) the cost of the provision of troops in and (b) the reconstruction of Iraq.
- Written Answers — Treasury: Iraq (20 Oct 2003)
Mr Chris Smith: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what financial provision he has so far made for the cost of the UK's contribution to (a) the conduct of active hostilities in Iraq earlier this year, (b) the provision of troops subsequently and (c) the financing of reconstruction in Iraq.
- Iraq (26 Feb 2003)
Mr Chris Smith: I beg to move, To leave out from "destruction" to end and add "but finds the case for military action against Iraq as yet unproven." The amendment stands in my name and the names of 115 hon. Members and right hon. Members from all sides of this House. Let us make no mistake. The Government motion before us talks—rightly—of the United Nations process. I welcome that. However, if...
- Iraq (26 Feb 2003)
Mr Chris Smith: ...been extorted out of him by the pressure from the international community falls so far short of what is required that it is a cause for going in and wreaking substantial havoc and destruction on Iraq. That case, as yet, is not made.
- Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)
Mr Chris Smith: ...the United States for its engagement with causes of justice around the world, let us be resolute with it to bring an end to terrorism wherever it may be, but let us test this proposition about Iraq against the evidence, against the shared aims of the international community, and against the need for a stable world. I say to my own Government, in all candour, if, as it may well do, it comes...
- Orders of the Day — Asylum Seekers (23 Jan 1996)
Mr Chris Smith: ..., and he speaks no English. He contacted the Kurdish Centre at the beginning of the next week, and they made an application for asylum on his behalf.He has been imprisoned and tortured by the Iraqi regime. He is disabled, having suffered injuries as well as torture. He was arrested and tortured on two separate occasions, and fled because he was warned by his uncle that the Iraqi police...