Labour has announced that they would bring back the SAS sooner if they became the government, inside 90 days:
Labour would bring New Zealand’s SAS soldiers home from Afghanistan within 90 days of assuming office.
The move was announced today as part of the party’s defence policy.
It was originally embargoed to 7pm but was released early after the embargo was broken.
Defence spokesman Iain Lees-Galloway said Labour would bring the current rotation home within a month and a half and would not send another group.
The Provincial Reconstruction Team would remain in Bamiyan province until 2014.
” We should not be putting the SAS in the middle of a civil war between a corrupt government and a brutal, fundamentalist opposition, where allegiances are constantly shifting and accountability hard to establish,” he said.
Uhmmm…
Nov 26 + 90 days = Feb 24 if you calculate strictly by days. If you use 3 months then 26 February.
The SAS are due home in March.
So Labour are promising to bring home the SAS a whole one week early! Whoopee that’ll win more votes.
Yet another stealing underpants strategy.
