Well, when you come right down to it, Britain’s help in Iraq was really more valuable for political and morale purposes than for any practical reasons.
Tony Blair may basically be a socialist, but he was brave and ruined his political career by being an ally to us as he did. I appreciate it. But anyone that thinks that Gordon Brown is going to pay any more than ‘lip service’ to alliance to the USA is smoking or ingesting something very potent.
The only thing that surprises me is that his first official act wasn’t to pull all of Britain’s troops home and surrender to to ‘Mohamed’.
- Brown was all set to announce a British pull out from Iraq as a big, new broom in office popularity move, but he got temporarily sidetracked by his very own hurricane Katrina with about 3/4 of a million of his fellow citizens standing waist deep in floodwater's. Now that he has managed to convince the citizenry that the whole mess was due to global warming, he can return to his original Iraqi bug out announcement.
Look for it to be trumpeted on the front page of of the NYT real soon.