Britain will help - LOL

February 10, 2003

Britain to have major role in rebuilding Iraq says Hoon12:54pm Monday, 10th

February 2003 British troops will play a large part in the rebuilding of Iraq

after any war in the country, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said.Mr Hoon said

British soldiers were "extremely good" at peacekeeping and reconstruction

duties as had been evident in the Balkans and Afghanistan."Our forces are

flexible, and they have been designed in a way to provide a number of military

options, including the prospect of, in the first place, ensuring security in

the immediate aftermath of a military operation," he said in an interview with

The Guardian.The troops would then be engaged in "preserving the peace and

helping the process of rebuilding Iraq as a member of the international

community, something which they've shown previously they are extremely good

at."Mr Hoon said February 14, the date when Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei

will present their key report to the UN Security Council, will be "a very

significant day."The political and diplomatic arguments in favour of a second

resolution were "very strong", he said.Mr Hoon predicted France would come

round to the idea of the use of force, leaving Germany as the only anti-war

European country.Despite any military conflict being led by the US, British

troops would "ultimately" be under the control of the Prime Minister, the

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