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

David Winnick: .... I also accept the obvious statement that there should be public trust in the committee. The many people who have lost family members—sons and daughters, for example—in warfare in Iraq should be able to feel reassured that the committee will try to get as close to the truth as possible in asking why we went to war and what all the consequences were. Some of the families blame...

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

David Winnick: ...Saddam had committed an act of blatant aggression, they opposed the military action taken in 1991. I took a very different position. Some would say that it was unfortunate that the whole of Iraq was not liberated at the time, but most of us understood the reasons why it was not. The accusation about regime change suggests that any reference to it must be derogatory. However, there are...

Business of the House (18 Jun 2009) has video

David Winnick: As someone who does not in any way renounce the 2003 vote on the Iraq war or blame the former Prime Minister, but justifies the vote, in all the circumstances at the time, may I ask my right hon. and learned Friend, regarding Wednesday's debate, whether the Government will reflect further on the committee of inquiry on the Iraq war? I, for one, do not believe that its proceedings should be...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Iraq (18 Dec 2008) has video

David Winnick: Whatever the mistakes—some of them absolutely disastrous—particularly by the United States in the occupation arising from the invasion of Iraq, does my right hon. Friend not agree that the vast majority of victims referred to by the former leader of the Liberal party, the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Mr. Kennedy), died as a result of sectarian violence? That...

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Iraq (8 Oct 2007)

David Winnick: ...that led to the destruction of the Saddam tyranny, and I am not in the process of apologising. However, does my right hon. Friend accept that it was never the intention that British troops in Iraq should stay indefinitely and therefore that there will be much welcome for a continued policy of the troops leaving Iraq at the most appropriate time?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Middle East Peace Process (16 Jan 2007)

David Winnick: Hearts and minds are as relevant in the middle east as elsewhere. Does my right hon. Friend accept that the gruesome and botched executions that occurred in Iraq yesterday will be strongly condemned in the region, as I hope they will be in this House and in the country at large? Do the Iraqi authorities not understand by now the effect of such action on people generally in the middle east?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Iraq (12 Dec 2006)

David Winnick: Does my right hon. Friend accept that public support for the policy on Iraq is draining away simply because the elected Government there—and there is no question but that they are elected—seem totally impotent to stop the daily mass slaughter of totally innocent people? It is clear that the occupation troops in Baghdad cannot prevent that slaughter either, so does he agree that,...

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

David Winnick: I agree with a great deal of what the right hon. and learned Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram) said, including on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but I want to concentrate on Iraq. My view—and it was reflected in the way that I voted in 2003—is that if Saddam could satisfy the UN weapons inspectors that the regime had no weapons of mass destruction, there could be no basis for...

Sessional Orders: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (15 Nov 2006)

David Winnick: Does my right hon. Friend accept that the reason opinion is moving away from our continued position in Iraq is that there seems to be no progress on security whatever? There is a feeling that next year, the year after or in many years to come, the position will remain the same as it is now. Is not there a case for an urgent reassessment of our position in that country, given the number of...

Business of the House (19 Oct 2006)

David Winnick: Does my right hon. Friend agree that a debate is taking place in the country about our military presence in Iraq? In order to clear the air, would it not be useful to hold a debate on the subject in the Chamber, as many Members would like? It seems odd that the country and the media are discussing the subject, which is of great importance, but that we are not. I therefore suggest an early debate.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Iraq and Afghanistan Update (10 Oct 2006)

David Winnick: In view of the endless slaughter of largely innocent civilians in Iraq and the inability of the occupation authorities to provide the necessary protection in any way whatsoever, is there not a case for seriously considering whether the whole issue of Iraq should be referred back to the Security Council of the United Nations? Why should we believe that the situation will be any different next...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (22 May 2006)

David Winnick: ...agree that, whatever views one took about the original invasion, there should be total condemnation of the so-called insurgents who carry out, day after day, the most horrifying crimes against the Iraqi people? Should not the newly elected Government in Iraq accept the fact that our troops cannot remain there indefinitely? They should concentrate on the task before them, bearing in mind,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (Reservists) (23 Jan 2006)

David Winnick: Does my right hon. Friend know whether the more vociferous opponents of what we did in Iraq have congratulated all those in that country on the huge turnout—more than 70 per cent.—for the recent elections? Would it not now be appropriate to consider at what stage it would be right for British troops to leave, as our armed presence in Iraq was obviously never intended to be indefinite?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (12 Dec 2005)

David Winnick: While we recognise that there are arguments about coalition troops leaving Iraq and that the coalition has undoubtedly made serious mistakes in the past two years, would it not be useful if those who organised the sort of conferences mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) also condemned in the strongest possible way the terrorism that occurs day in and...

Terrorism and Community Relations (27 Oct 2005)

David Winnick: I apologise for missing the beginning of the hon. Gentleman's speech, but I hope that he is not saying that the Government's policy on Iraq—we can agree or disagree about it, and I disagree with him about it—offers any possible justification. If that were the case, what about the Serbs and those of Serbian origin living in this country who very much opposed the action taken to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Regime Change (19 Jul 2005)

David Winnick: ...? The regiment has a distinguished tradition. Will my right hon. Friend also take this opportunity to express our horror at the manner in which, among all the killing and carnage that took place in Iraq last week, children, some as young as six, were butchered by terrorists? Is it not the case that anyone in the House who justifies in any way such killing and terrorism is not fit to be a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (21 Jun 2005)

David Winnick: ...place, who refer to the high number of casualties should bear in mind that casualties are being caused in large numbers, as already pointed out, by the terrorist suicide bombers, the enemies of Iraq? Does my right hon. Friend agree that the impression should not be given that somehow British or American continued intervention in Iraq is open-ended—I have listened to what he has...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (18 May 2005)

David Winnick: Although my hon. Friend and I differed sharply over the war, I too do not want British troops—or American troops—to remain in Iraq indefinitely. I acknowledge his comment a few moments ago, but does he agree that there must be the strongest possible condemnation of the way in which hundreds of Iraqis are murdered every week, not by the coalition forces, but by suicide bombers and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (10 Jan 2005)

Mr David Winnick: While recognising that murderers and torturers are carrying out crimes in Iraq against civilians as well as against our troops, would it not be wise to tell the United States that if there is any truth at all in the suggestion about assassination squads, that would not only add to the serious mistakes that America has made in Iraq, but would be counter-productive, assisting suicide bombers...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

Mr David Winnick: The differences about Iraq will last a long time, as I said, but does the right hon. and learned Gentleman not accept that what was done in Kosovo and Afghanistan was justified and that, with all its setbacks, military action nevertheless did away with ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and dealt a blow in overthrowing a gangster regime in Afghanistan that all hon. Members surely wanted to be destroyed?