Originally Posted by Halton Brat
In January 2006, when 3,300 British troops were committed to Afghanistan, the then Secretary of State for Defence, John Reid, claimed that British troops would accomplish their mission & leave "without a single shot being fired"...
I heard John Reid's words and he actually said he
hoped that British troops would be able to leave Afghanistan without a single shot being fired. At the time, so did I.
Naive perhaps but whatever you think about the man and his government, don't follow the sheep in attempting to re-write history.