Brown Announces UK Troops Out Of Iraq By July
By Cernig
And so the coalition of the unwilling dwindles even further. Even UK conservatives abandoned Iraq as the wrong war, for the wrong reasons, at the wrong time, some years ago - as did the bulk of the British populace. Now Gordon Brown has flown to Bagdhad to announce a withdrawal of British forces by the end of July next year. Only 300 troops will remain to train Iraqi forces.
Brown had to spin it as completing a noble exercise in "the tasks of overthrowing a dictatorship, the task of building a democracy for the future and defending it against terrorism", of course, but I don't see him, his ministers or his senior officers heaving any kind of sigh except one of relief. Britain only stayed because of the "special relationship", not because anyone believed the narrative Bush and Blair concocted any more.
Oh, and the Iraqis tacked five other nations with a smaller troop presence, including Romania, El Salvador and Estonia, onto Britain's withdrawal agreement
And here I thought the Brits were always about going in and pulling out right away.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I just heard on Sky News about 2 minutes ago that Brown is saying British troops will be out of Iraq by May 2009, not July. The question at that time will be how many of those troops are diverted to Afghanistan.
Iraq Wants All Non-US Troops Out by July
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Finally.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
See? Here's a man who knows how to avoid flying shoes.
Good for him and sticking by his word.
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Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
So 300 British will be left in Iraq to train Iraqis. You mean 300 targets. They won`t be there very long.
It will make it even harder to portray this horrible war as a product of some "coalition".
The sad part is that Gordon Brown, like our very own Obama, is talking about sending those troops to Afghanistan to "defend democracy".
I'm afraid that we're in a revolving door that never stops turning.
they shouldn't have been there in the first place. Nor should we.
We are fast becoming a third-world country because of the military and their wanting to be the policemen of the world.
We will continue to get shitty infrastructure despite what Obama has promised if we don't close all the foreign bases and cut the military budget to where other countries spend.
The British Empire became too costly to endure. We should know better, too.
It says a lot that the UK is getting out of Iraq. If we have no significant allies in this war to give it some credibility, then why are we there? Did the UN even pass the extension for the US occupation of Iraq?
Seriously, this is good news. Not great news until the US gets out, but still good news.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
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