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    Brown: Afghan mission 'our first line of defence' against terrorism
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    Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg described the speech as "a woefully belated attempt to win over public support for a war that has cost so many lives". "The Prime Minister has finally acknowledged that the British people will always back our brave British troops in the dangerous work they do, but they will not unconditionally support soldiers being sent to fight and die for a corrupt and illegitimate government in Kabul" said Mr Clegg. "The brutal truth is that we will not succeed in Afghanistan without a new and workable international plan covering everything from our military tactics to political reconciliation." Full Article at Edinburgh Daily News
    The Prime Minister has finally acknowledged that the British people will always back our brave British troops in the dangerous work they do, but they will not unconditionally support soldiers being sent to fight and die for a corrupt and illegitimate government in Kabul
    – Nick Clegg SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 3 weeks ago
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Brown: Afghan mission 'our first line of defence' against terrorism
  1. When the main terrorist threat facing Britain emanates from Afghanistan and Pakistan; and when, although the sustained pressure in Pakistan, combined with military action in Afghanistan, is having a suppressive effect on al Qaida, we know that they continue to train and plot attacks on Britain from the ...
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 3 weeks ago
  2. well, yes we will continue to do so until we have completed our mission whatever Karzai does
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 3 weeks ago
  3. These men are our heroes today.
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 3 weeks ago
  4. We will not give up this strategy of mentoring ... Because it is what distinguishes a liberating army from an army of occupation. Not an army in opposition to local Afghan people but an army supporting local Afghan people.
    Gordon Brown – Gordon Brown SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 3 weeks ago
  5. we will win or fail together and we will win
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 3 weeks ago
  6. I am not prepared to put the lives of British men and women in harm's way for a government that does not stand up against corruption
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 3 weeks ago
  7. It is not easy. The choices are not simple. There is no strategy that is without danger and risk. But that is the responsibility of leadership – of government, and of our armed forces. To do what is necessary, however difficult, to keep the British people safe. We cannot, must not and will not walk away...
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 3 weeks ago
  8. If the government fails to meet these five tests, it will have not only failed its own people, it will have forfeited its right to international support.
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 3 weeks ago
  9. we will succeed or fail together – and we will succeed
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 3 weeks ago

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