British forces coming home

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
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Message Posted:
18/12/2008 00:10

The Prime Minister has announced that all our troops will be home from Iraq by September 2009. He went on to say that "we will be paving Iraq a better place"

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
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Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:16

i disagree with him.

now the uk can no longer afford to be there , tightening their belts at the expense of the iraqi people.

also the general election next year, he will need all the votes he can get.

i think civil unrest is coming to iraq very soon after.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:25

Interesting to see how the UK Newspapers see it.

Let no one be in any doubt, the Sun argues, Britain is leaving with its head held very high.

The Daily Telegraph says troops have had to cope with gross mismanagement of the occupation by political masters and a hornets' nest of inter-Shia rivalry.

The Daily Star believes it is a time to salute our troops.



The Times takes issue with Gordon Brown for attempting to present the timetable for the pull-out in Iraq as a triumph.

In no way, it concludes, is this mission accomplished.

The Independent is also sceptical - saying the campaign has achieved almost nothing from an unnecessary and unwinnable guerilla war.

The Daily Mail says Britain will leave at a time when the Iraqi people are immeasurably worse off than under Saddam Hussein's tyranny.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:27

My own view is that of the Independants.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:54

Well at least we are quicker with our "Vietnam" wars these days...



Another waste of human life and probably all for the wrong reasons even if we were led to believe it was all with the best of intentions...



I feel the troops have been betrayed, put in the line of fire all for the hawks in politics...



I think Tony Blair dared not allow W go it alone as it would have split the dynamics of World politics asunder...



The real shame of it is, of course, that our Prime Minister could not dissuade W... but then W was probably having the wool pulled over his eyes by those a bit cleverer than he... That could have been almost any American with an education which is quite frightening to contemplate!