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Rice comments highlight failure of Iraq strategy - Moore

1.01.05pm GMT Fri 12th Jan 2007

Responding to Condoleezza Rice's comments that the US will take action against countries destabilising Iraq, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary, Michael Moore MP said:

"British policy in Iraq is in a complete mess now that the Bush administration has comprehensively abandoned the central elements of the Iraq Study Group report.

"By upping the ante towards Iran, the Secretary of State has passed up the chance for a fresh start. Along with President Bush, Dr Rice has opted for an exaggerated version of the existing failed strategy.

"The British Government has been left pretending that American strategy in Baghdad has no impact on our troops in Basra, and has no effective policy as a result."

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