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
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