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    Prime Minister Gordon Brown led calls for the public to back the increasingly bloody war, as a new poll revealed falling support, confusion over the mission's purpose and skepticism about its success. "If we do not take action in Pakistan and Afghanistan then Al-Qaeda would be plotting more trouble and more chaos in the streets of our cities" Mr Brown told BBC television. Full Article at The Daily Telegraph
    If we do not take action in Pakistan and Afghanistan then Al-Qaeda would be plotting more trouble and more chaos in the streets of our cities
    Gordon Brown – Gordon Brown SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph 1 month ago
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Aghan war defended as Brits remember dead
  1. The only reason that it (the threat) has moved into Pakistan is because our troops are in Afghanistan. If they were not there, the threat would be back, the threat would be real, the threat would grow to the level it was some years ago.
    SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph 1 month ago
  2. General McChrystal estimates that it will not be before 2013. I think that's a little optimistic. I'd say about 2014
    SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph 1 month ago
  3. It's painful and it's slow and it's halting but it is in the right direction
    SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph 1 month ago
  4. British public opinion has been dented by the level of losses that we have received, but we cannot run a campaign like this off the back of an opinion poll
    SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph 1 month ago
  5. We have to persevere, we have to show some resolution. This campaign is directly connected to our safety back here in the United Kingdom. And people need to recognise that. Failure will be a disaster for us.
    SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph 1 month ago

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