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We are not going to abandon Iraq.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully.

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

We British and Americans have never been conquered and occupied by the Germans, or forced to make the choice between defiance and collaboration, or haunted by the choices, evasions and moral ambiguities that only a defeated and occupied country can feel.

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.