Jeremy Corbyn said he feared Britain was in danger of being sucked into an "unpleasant, long-drawn-out, almost guerrilla like conflict".
Or the blame for the long-drawn-out failure of rescue efforts?
It lacked the intense, heightened atmosphere that surrounded the last election in 2005, when the long-drawn-out agony of John Paul II had suffused the Catholic world in grief and gratitude.
When Mr Clinton's trial began on January 14th, conventional wisdom held that it was the president, not the Republicans, who should fear the calling of witnesses and a long-drawn-out procedure.
He signed a five-year contract with City in August 2009 after a long-drawn-out transfer saga in a deal that made him the second most expensive English defender, after Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand.
The Kargil operation was an attempt to move into the third phase without the strength to carry it through to its ultimate objective or the ability to sustain a long-drawn-out conflict with a numerically superior opponent.
The bitter irony is this long-drawn out debate comes when the internet - which, being global, has no regulatory restraints - is driving newspapers out of business.
Are you looking now at a long, drawn-out period of negotiating a scaled-down package?
Some are predicting a long, drawn-out fight, leading to a possible compromise some time around dawn on Saturday morning.
"I believe we are still in a long, drawn-out conflict with al-Qaida, " Sen.
The Desert Foxes' earlier defeat against Malawi may have been a hangover from their long, drawn-out World Cup campaign.
The biggest issue remains the long, drawn-out war against the separatist Tamil Tigers.
Rep. Henry Waxman said the long, drawn-out process within the office and Vice President Dick Cheney's office is demoralizing career government scientists.
And as I said I think several weeks ago, my interest is not having a long, drawn-out process for months.
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An unvetted candidate who might have survived a couple of weeks of campaigning couldn't take the strain of this long, drawn-out process.
For what they perceive as extravagance is always less costly in lives and treasure than the long drawn-out wars it deters altogether or shortens with quick victories.
After a long, drawn-out saga that ran through the summer months, Ronaldo insisted he was happy at Old Trafford and remained at United for the 2008-2009 campaign.
The party's nervousness about the long, drawn-out battle is increasing.
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"The entire process will be subjected to a long and drawn-out process in the courts... no sod will be turned, " he told a meeting with stadium planning officials on Tuesday.
The process is likely to be long and drawn-out, involving a good deal of back and forth between Ofcom and BSkyB, as well as between the regulator and News Corp.
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Warsaw's response has been to draw closer to the United States, by rapidly concluding an agreement in long drawn-out negotiations over the basing of U.S. interceptor missiles on Polish soil.
Filipinos are preparing for a long drawn-out political feud.
The trust said Mr Halsall had been seconded to the NHS Confederation, in a move which "avoided the potential for a long drawn-out dispute, that would have been both expensive and time consuming".
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Despite the monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve and the fiscal stimulus from the federal government, Weiss foresees a long, drawn-out bear market similar to the one Japan has been in since late 1989.
We're not only in a long, drawn-out battle with new kinds of enemies who have ready access to tremendously destructive capabilities, as we all know, but we're going to have because of that change our priorities.
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