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Mission Accomplished? A Way Forward for the UK in Iraq

Chris Abbott, June 2007

Four years after President Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq, Chris Abbott examines the situation in Iraq today and argues that we urgently need realistic policy proposals for a UK withdrawal that do not simply abandon the Iraqi people to their fate.

This short briefing sets out four such proposals:

1. The withdrawal of UK combat troops
2. Assistance to the Iraqi military and security services
3. Support for the rebuilding of Iraq
4. An apology for the mistakes that have been made

These were included in evidence submitted by ORG to the UK Iraq Commission in June 2007.