Queen attends Mansion House lunch with Iraq war veterans

Queen attends Mansion House lunch with Iraq war veterans; Sir Jock Stirrup (Chief of the Defence Staff) speech SOT - Many holders of telic medal are proud and grateful that you are leading the nation in remembrance - Confirmation that the nation acknowledged what duty entails - Enormous importance to our people - 150k soldiers served in Operation Telic - Conditions difficult and sometimes extreme - carried out range of tasks beyond military norm - faced periods of intense and complex combat - had to show cultural sensitivity and lightness of touch that would have challenged an experienced diplomat - Withholding force was often more important and difficult than using it - they had to create time and space for political solutions to be forged, even though forging was painfully slow - they had to do this through periods of international controversy and under barrage of advice from well intentioned but largely unhelpful armchair tacticians - they responded in way we come to expect - they fought with skill and supreme courage - they worked with determination and patience, endured privations with stoicism and humour - they weathered inevitable setbacks and forged on undeterred and succeeded - their task was to seize and hold the ring and get Iraqi armed forces to stage where they could take responsibility for their own security - their task was to give Iraqi people opportunity to grasp their own future in their own hands and that's what they did - they could not prescribe what use would be made of opportunity they created - that the opportunity exists at all is down to the bravery and professionalism of all who served on Operation Telic
Queen attends Mansion House lunch with Iraq war veterans; Sir Jock Stirrup (Chief of the Defence Staff) speech SOT - Many holders of telic medal are proud and grateful that you are leading the nation in remembrance - Confirmation that the nation acknowledged what duty entails - Enormous importance to our people - 150k soldiers served in Operation Telic - Conditions difficult and sometimes extreme - carried out range of tasks beyond military norm - faced periods of intense and complex combat - had to show cultural sensitivity and lightness of touch that would have challenged an experienced diplomat - Withholding force was often more important and difficult than using it - they had to create time and space for political solutions to be forged, even though forging was painfully slow - they had to do this through periods of international controversy and under barrage of advice from well intentioned but largely unhelpful armchair tacticians - they responded in way we come to expect - they fought with skill and supreme courage - they worked with determination and patience, endured privations with stoicism and humour - they weathered inevitable setbacks and forged on undeterred and succeeded - their task was to seize and hold the ring and get Iraqi armed forces to stage where they could take responsibility for their own security - their task was to give Iraqi people opportunity to grasp their own future in their own hands and that's what they did - they could not prescribe what use would be made of opportunity they created - that the opportunity exists at all is down to the bravery and professionalism of all who served on Operation Telic
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09 October, 2009
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