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MS 6 - Iraq Next Steps
#2
Mr Speaker,

It is customary for the Opposition to thank the Government Minister for their statement to the House, however the Right Honourable Gentleman is so tardy in his coming before us and so lacking in what he has said, I am afraid I am going to have to skip right to the substance, or lack thereof. Instead, I will add to the record my own tribute to the men and women of our Armed Forces who have conducted themselves with honour and dignity and leadership. We commend that and thank them for their service to the country.

Mr Speaker, when the Government first came to us and explained that the UK would be involved in military action abroad, the Labour Party were very clear that we would only support them if the principles that have underpinned our foreign policy since 1945 would be upheld. We said that we would offer cautious support if it met three golden standards that we believe are at the core of Britain's work around the world; morality, legitimacy and practicality. In short, any military action had to be morally justifiable, legal and effective.

Mr Speaker, the Labour Party continues to champion these golden rules. We pressed the Government for them when consulted, we have repeated them in the House, and elsewhere. In short, we have upheld the principles that our democracy and government in this country is built on, that the role of the Opposition is to offer scrutiny of Government policy and hold them to account in line with the principles. Mr Speaker, we have been more than fair in our dealings with the Government. We engaged honestly and openly on the sole occasion we were consulted. We have been constructive in Parliament and in private; asking challenging questions to Ministers about the detail but welcoming policy decisions we agree are in the national interest. We have upheld not only the golden rules, Mr Speaker, but our own values, which we believe to be British values; internationalism, cooperation with others and a just and fair world with human rights for all.

I am sorry to see, then Mr Speaker, that the Government is proving unable or unwilling to show the same leadership and respect for the structures and institutions that make our democracy world-class. It is a shame, Mr Speaker, that the Foreign Secretary has seen fit to come before this House and give us this watery half-baked statement that mismanages key elements of the policy itself, undermines the role of the Opposition to provide scrutiny and is wholly inadequate in terms of substance.

Mr Speaker, this statement shines a light into the string of mismanagement of the Iraq War under this Foreign Secretary. From the beginning, the Foreign Secretary has made is very clear that he would jump at this opportunity to play global statesman; he was eager to get into the UN and push for a mandate, although the Security Council denied him one, he was quick to jump into a deeper conflict despite all regional powers backing out after the initial withdrawal of Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, he did so, I should add Mr Speaker, without proper Mission Objectives being delivered before the House in time, and he was all too happy to run in and try his hand at nationbuilding without a clear path through. His eagerness for oriental adventure has overridden entirely the detail and overarching strategy necessary to conduct this matter with the moral leadership, the credibility and the effectiveness that is needed.

Mr Speaker, the Foreign Secretary has displayed a complete disregard for Parliament on the matter of Iraq. In his statement today, the Foreign Secretary spent more time talking about the Labour Party and press leaks from inside Government than he did the substance of a plan to rebuild Iraq. Mr Speaker, the Right Honourable Gentleman stood in this House and delivered what was, for all intents and purposes, a Party political broadcast about the apparent successes of his brief stints in office. The statement delivered a lot of intentions and praise for the Government's policies but seriously absent was the level of information required for this House to fulfill one of its primary functions to hold the Government to account.

There was no update on the number of deployments to be made.
No update on what proportion of the troops supporting recovery would be British.
No update on casualties; in fact we haven't had an update on casualties before this House all year.
No accounts submitted to project costs; Mr Speaker, has the Right Honourable Gentleman even asked the Treasury and MoD for such projections?
Does the Foreign Secretary seriously think he can come before the House of Commons and say, "this will be expensive" and expect that to be that?
There was no update, Mr Speaker, on a plan of how to rebuild Iraq beyond food aid and a vague intention of handing over power "at a later stage."

Mr Speaker, this is not a strategy. It is not a substantial statement to be made before the House of Commons as part of a functioning, credible democracy and this Government has repeatedly now fallen into the trap of neglecting this House and pursuing instead vanity projects and ego-soothing headlines. This statement is, Mr Speaker, hollow because once more the Foreign Secretary is avoiding scrutiny. On only three occasions, Mr Speaker, since Iraq invaded Kuwait has the Foreign Secretary come before the House to account for the Government's policies and be answerable to Honourable and Right Honourable Members. The first was a six sentence statement announcing the country was at war. Six sentences from the Foreign Secretary and not a word from the Prime Minister.

On the second occasion, Mr Speaker, the Foreign Secretary made a brief statement to the House announcing a complete change of mission objective and that the country was not only at War with Iraq to force a withdrawal from Kuwait but was now in the business of regime change. Did the Foreign Secretary allow for scrutiny then? No, Mr Speaker, he made his statement and when asked questions by myself and other Honourable and Right Honourable members, he disappeared from the chamber.

Mr Speaker, the Right Honourable Gentleman's ego doesn’t often allow him to submit to others but I suggest he take this piece of advice; he ought to know his place. This House is the sovereign power in this country and he is answerable to it. It is time he start taking that responsibility more seriously.

Mr Speaker, I will now attempt, as best I can, to make my way through the Foreign Secretary's statement and offer constructive scrutiny and feedback on what he has said. I worry, however, Mr Speaker, he hasn't given me much to work with. I hope, at least, Mr Speaker, I can prise some detail and answers to the questions the country and this House needs and deserves.

Mr Speaker, the Foreign Secretary started his statement by setting out the Government's apparent successes on the matter of Iraq. If he is to be believed, the Right Honourable Gentleman paints a very sunny picture about "Oh what a lovely war" he has had so far. He prides himself, Mr Speaker, as Tory backbenchers have too in the press, on the number of Johnny foreigners he has managed to kill, capture or wound. This is given to the House as some sort of measure of success, as opposed to the withdrawal of Iraqi forces or the successful completion of measured mission objectives. The issue, Mr Speaker, is that because the Foreign Secretary never submitted any such mission objectives to the House, it is nearly impossible for him to offer any measure beyond how many Iraqis have died, been captured or been wounded. He has yet to even clarify how many of that number are fatalities. He repeatedly evades the statistic, out of ignorance or arrogance. However, we should be clear for the record, Mr Speaker, that thousands of dead Iraqis, soldiers or not, is not something to celebrate but represents the level of failure of the international community to curb this brutal dictatorship sooner. Thousands dead represents thousands of lives lost due to this Government's unwavering inertia when it came to holding Saddam to account for genocide and use of chemical weapons throughout the 1980s. Had this Conservative Government done more sooner, fewer would have had to lay down their lives to serve a dictatorship. I asked the Foreign Secretary on the record why the Government has taken no action on Saddam until now and why the use of chemical weapons didn’t matter until now but he refused to answer the question in his last Ministerial statement. Instead, I shall ask it again; why was no action taken on Saddam Hussein's use of chemical weapons until last year?

Mr Speaker, the Foreign Secretary goes on to take great pains to tell the House how responsible the Government is being in taking "the initiative" in rebuilding Iraq. It is not taking the initiative, Mr Speaker, if one was partly responsible for the destruction in the first place. Mr Speaker, the Government has shown no willingness nor desire to take responsibility for the role they have played in the current state of Iraq. The fact thy ignored Saddam, the deaths of the Kurds and the use of chemical weapons, the fact they had no plan for exit, no mission objectives, they changed the strategy halfway through, all of this contributed to the current situation in Iraq but the Foreign Secretary is trying to sell to this House that the Government are being saviours by helping this nation to improve. The fact that no plan for any of this was in place before he went in is an absolute disgrace.

Mr Speaker, the second part of the Right Honourable Gentleman's address starts by calling Iraq a "backward" country. I want to go on the record, Mr Speaker, and state that I do not believe any member of this House other than the Foreign Secretary would want to support that sentence as it betrays a deeper colonial mindset still at play at the heart of this Tory Foreign Office. I welcome the fact that this is the first acknowledgement from the Foreign Secretary that rebuilding won't be "easy, quick or cheap". In fact, Mr Speaker, he tells us it will cost the country a lot of money. Unfortunately, Mr Speaker, no estimates or projections are given. I wonder if the Foreign Secretary has projections of costing he can give to the House today? I note, Mr Speaker, the Right Honourable Gentleman also states in this section that he is laying out these arrangements before the House of Commons today…and then proceeds not to give one. I think, Mr Speaker, that speaks for itself. The rest of this section is a long-winded rant about the Labour Party and press leaks that I won't bore the House with a response to beyond to say that it tells us more about the Foreign Secretary's utter vain obsession with his image in the papers than it does about defence policy.

Mr Speaker, the Foreign Secretary's next section deals with how the governance of Iraq will be structured moving forward. News, I presume to the people of Iraq who while pleased I am sure to be rid of a dictator, were likely taken by surprise to learn their entire system of government and their country's political and constitutional foundation was being rewritten by a man hundreds of miles away. The Foreign Secretary notes other forms of administration, such as mandates or imperial occupations, as "undemocratic". While I am pleased to hear the Right Honourable Gentleman reiterate his commitment to democracy, it does seem strange that he subsequently goes on to explain that no Iraqis will be involved in the governance of Iraq. He also, bizarrely Mr Speaker, immediately declares that this system of his own clever invention will be "implemented in Iraq". A strange word for somebody so dedicated to democracy.

Mr Speaker, I worry about what the Right Honourable Gentleman has said about policing. He says that the militaries of these countries involved in the Commission, which again doesn't include Iraq itself, will also be keeping the peace and policing Iraq. I wonder how that sits with a fundamental principle of our own police force that policing ought to be by consent. Do the Iraqi people consent to having these other countries act as their law enforcement? How does the Foreign Secretary intend on finding out? Again Mr Speaker, the absence of Iraqi voices is stark.

Mr Speaker, the Right Honourable Gentleman then stumbles over his words a bit here. He cites Iraq as a country with "Islamic tendencies." Mr Speaker, forgive me for correcting him but Iraq does not have a tendency; Iraq is a Muslim country. He says this, I suspect to justify the lack of involvement of Iraqis in governance. Indeed, Mr Speaker, he goes on to say that there are Sunni and Shia elements in Iraq. While technically true, Mr Speaker, it is somewhat misleading; Iraq's Sunni population sits at around 30% to 70% Shia. That is hardly the balanced picture the Foreign Secretary is trying to sell the House. The majority of the Sunni population, Mr Speaker, are minority Kurds; the very people the Foreign Secretary said he was going into Iraq to save from chemical weapons that started this whole affair in the first place. Mr Speaker, that the Right Honourable Gentleman is so poorly briefed on a central aspect of this issue is astounding.

Mr Speaker, all of this is summed up as a long length the Foreign Secretary was willing to go to justify the fact that there are no Iraqi voices in the decision making processes in their country under this Government's proposals. In fact, the Foreign Secretary seems to think having Sunni Muslims represent the culture and politics and society of a majority Shia population is acceptable. He said before the House himself, that he is expecting Egypt and Syria, both Sunni, to represent the interests of Shia Iraq. Quite frankly, it is very clear Mr Speaker, the Foreign Secretary's colonial attitude meant he simply wanted brown faces at the table so that the little foreigners felt included.

Mr Speaker, the Foreign Secretary furthers this attitude by stating that the Syrian and Egyptian commissioners will give "blessing" to commission decisions by "regional allies". Quite why Iraq needs the blessing of foreign governments on internal matters is unexplained, Mr Speaker. He says they're "endorsing the plan", that would be the plan he has still at this point not outlined. Mr Speaker, the Foreign Secretary seems to think any Muslim country ought to be able to speak and govern another. I wonder if he feels the same way about Christian countries; if the UK were spoken for and governed by, say, Russia?

What is worrying, Mr Speaker, is that the next part of the Foreign Secretary's statement, which deals with the appointment of a Commissioner, says that he, vaguely, wants to "give power back to the Iraqi people". This is the first reference to the actual people of Iraq in the whole statement today and the first time the Foreign Secretary has accepted that the Iraqi people under his system will have no power at all. Mr Speaker, the appointment of Lord Carrington as Commissioner is most unwelcome. Lord Carrington has absolutely no expertise in nationbuilding, law, constitutions or the Middle East at all, and in fact, famously resigned as Foreign Secretary because he failed to foresee the Falklands War. Hardly a ringing endorsement, Mr Speaker.

Mr Speaker, in this last section, the Right Honourable Gentleman finally mentions the mission. We await with baited breath to hear the big plan, Mr Speaker, but none is forthcoming. Instead, the Foreign Secretary simply says the aim is to "restore Iraq."
Can he define that?
How will that be measured?
What are his success criteria for a successful mission?
What are the specific mission objectives?
What milestones will be measured?
What is the timeline?
What information will be presented to Government? To Cabinet? To Parliament? When? How often? By whom?

There is no plan, again, Mr Speaker. The fact he then brushes off the Iraqi population and citizenry as "the locals" smacks of the arrogant colonial mindset that has taken root in his Office.

Mr Speaker, it is clear that this has not been thought through. There was never a plan and never a strategy. When the Foreign Secretary heard of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, he jumped in with glee hoping for a glorious victory and thinking only of which picture the papers would use. I am, quite frankly, Mr Speaker, sick and tired of rising in this House or elsewhere, giving honest scrutiny and fulfilling my obligations on behalf of the Opposition, having to ask time and time again for more detail, more substance. His policy has no depth to it; it is an empty shell of  a plan which is, Mr Speaker, a testament. It speaks to his stature, character and credibility.

Mr Speaker, this Foreign Secretary wanted this war to be his crowning glory; his achievement. Instead, he is the Foreign Secretary who let spies infiltrate Government, presided over a diplomatic crisis with both the USSR and South Africa, haggled with other countries to get criminals back. That is his legacy Mr Speaker. The Minister of State for Security called it "chaos on his watch". I call it weak, weak, weak.
Gruffydd Rhys Morrison MP
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MS 6 - Iraq Next Steps - by Nicholas Eden - 07-28-2020, 08:44 PM
RE: MS 6 - Iraq Next Steps - by Griff Rhys Morrison - 07-29-2020, 10:59 PM
RE: MS 6 - Iraq Next Steps - by Nicholas Eden - 07-30-2020, 06:40 PM
RE: MS 6 - Iraq Next Steps - by Alex Cardigan MP - 07-30-2020, 07:47 AM
RE: MS 6 - Iraq Next Steps - by Henry Carpenter - 08-02-2020, 12:26 AM

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