But the Taliban are still active in the area, so are drug traffickers, ... NATO must send more troops than are currently operating in the north today. We are discussing with NATO what those additional forces should be.
I can also tell the House that British troops have opened fire in order to prevent unauthorized entry to . . . a camp in Kabul,
Troops are facing a dark time in Iraq but we won't quit,
The total number of troops in Iraq following the deployment of 7 Armored Brigade will be around 8,000,
I don't think that anybody has ever suggested our troops will be out of Iraq by next May, ... What I have said is in the course of next year there could be the start of the process of the handover to the Iraqis.
We have said all along that our troops will stay there as long as they are needed and requested by the Iraqis, that when they withdraw... it will not be an event, it will be a process.