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Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peace Keeping Operations (4 Jun 2007)

Robert Wareing: ...of State for Defence what advice and assistance is planned to be made available for soldiers of the 2nd Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment on their return from their tour of duty in Iraq.

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Robert Wareing: I was saddened the other week that more of my hon. Friends did not join me and others to call for a proper inquiry into the Iraq situation. It is a scandal that our Prime Minister can give evidence to an American organisation but not to one set up in this country. I always think that the real reason why we are in Iraq can be summed up in one word—oil. The dangers that we are seeing now...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Robert Wareing: ...have heard it, but I understand that the Government have granted a debate on 5 December in the other place. I agree with him that we should have a day or even two days to debate the disaster in Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (26 Apr 2006)

Robert Wareing: When the Prime Minister hears about British soldiers losing their lives in Iraq, he usually—in fact, always, and correctly—makes a statement from the Dispatch Box expressing sympathy. Today, in Committee Room 16 at 12.30 there will be members of the families of those who have lost their lives in Iraq. Will the Prime Minister spare five or 10 minutes to meet them?

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (26 Oct 2005)

Robert Wareing: No Member of this House would in any way deplore measures to prevent terrorism occurring in our country. One of the reasons many of us voted against the war in Iraq was that we realised that it would make our country even more vulnerable to terrorist attacks. In my view, the Bill is an excellent example of legislation that has been introduced in a knee-jerk reaction. The Government have to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (13 Oct 2004)

Mr Robert Wareing: The Prime Minister tries to justify the illegal war against Iraq to those of us who opposed it on the ground that if we had not gone to war Saddam Hussein and his two sons would still be in charge of Iraq. How, then, does the Prime Minister explain his statement to this House on 25 February 2003, in which he said: "even now, today, we are offering Saddam the prospect of voluntary disarmament...

Iraq (20 Jul 2004)

Mr Robert Wareing: The right hon. Gentleman asked whether a British Prime Minister could say no if an American President decided to go into Iraq. Of course, Harold Wilson did say no over Vietnam. Indeed, Clement Attlee went so far as to see Harry Truman to prevent General MacArthur launching an attack on China way back in 1950.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (7 Jul 2004)

Mr Robert Wareing: Does my right hon. Friend still believe that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (11 May 2004)

Mr Robert Wareing: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the most recent findings of the Iraq survey group.

Iraq and Middle East Peace Process (19 Apr 2004)

Mr Robert Wareing: ...its system of government on eastern European countries, but once they were free from military occupation they decided to go in a different direction. We cannot impose western-style democracy on Iraq, a country of a very different civilisation and culture. Once the occupation has ended, Iraq will determine which direction to go in, and at what pace.

Minorities (Former Yugoslavia) (17 Jun 2003)

Mr Robert Wareing: ...this vital debate on a subject that has fallen from the headlines in the past few years. We have turned our attention more to the problems afflicting the middle east—Palestine, Israel and Iraq. Many people may think that the problems that Kosovo experienced during the period of ethnic cleansing have suddenly disappeared, and that we are witnessing the emergence of a new state in...

Prime Minister: Engagements (14 May 2003)

Mr Robert Wareing: Despite what the Prime Minister said about Iraq's oil, is it not the case that at the moment the United States, not the United Nations, has de facto control of the oil? Is it not the policy of the United States that the United Nations should be reduced to the international Mother Theresa in the world, with no real political control whatsoever? Is it not about time that this country stopped...

Points of Order (8 Apr 2003)

Mr Robert Wareing: ...now involved in a second meeting with the United States gangster President, yet there is no statement. In the past fortnight, thousands of innocent men, women and children have lost their lives in Iraq, many of them bombed by American planes. Sometimes they have been killed, unfortunately, by British forces. Surely there should be a statement in the House, or has there been a change in the...

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Robert Wareing: ...Prime Minister's speech. However, is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, between 1986 and 1991, 12 early-day motions were tabled in this House calling for the abandonment of the supply of arms to Iraq and condemning what happened at Halabja, and that all the 60 Members who signed at least one of those motions—they included me—were Labour Members? Not a single Tory name was...

Iraq (3 Feb 2003)

Mr Robert Wareing: ...pressures, especially with regard to oil contracts, President Bush and the rest of his gang are putting on countries represented in the UN Security Council to approve military action against Iraq? Is there no chance at all of a meeting of the General Assembly of the UN to discuss this most serious matter?

Written Answers — International Development: Iraq (20 Jan 2003)

Mr Robert Wareing: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if the UN has published a strategy for preparing for the humanitarian effects of hostilities against Iraq; and if she will make a statement.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (20 Jan 2003)

Mr Robert Wareing: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs under what procedures the United States gained first access to Iraq's document of 8 December 2002 on weapons of mass destruction.

Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (25 Nov 2002)

Mr Robert Wareing: ...the virtues of President Bush, I thought to myself, XCome back, Neil Hamilton, all is forgiven." I want to refer to two groups of people in relation to the issue of possible military action against Iraq. The first are those who will suffer most as a result of military action. They are the sort of people whom I saw last May when I visited hospitals in Basra. I saw cancer patients, including...

Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (25 Nov 2002)

Mr Robert Wareing: ...world. The sooner the decent people of America, of whom there are so many, are able to elect a President who is not a Xmoron"—as one Canadian Minister has called Bush—who knows where Iraq is, and who has some ideas behind him, the better it will be for all of us and for the people of Iraq.

Fire Dispute (21 Nov 2002)

Mr Robert Wareing: ...least some financial contribution towards the settlement of the dispute, particularly when they believe that the Government are preparing to spend God knows how many billions of pounds on a war in Iraq?