John Reid Quotes


While we take what happened seriously, and I stand by everything that our commander on the spot did, don't let's take one incident like that and try to pretend that it reflects the whole of even the Iraqi police force. - John Reid



While we are in Afghanistan we are defending people in Britain, the US and the rest of the world by denying terrorists a base from which to plan their operations. - John Reid



When
they develop the security forces to the level where they can take
control of that counter-terrorism, we will hand over that to the
Iraqis themselves.
- John Reid



When you have stability, it will be time to depart. - John Reid



When that condition has been met, we will hand over the lead in counter-terrorism to the Iraqis. - John Reid