[hsalaw]

As British officers here love to point out, Basra now has a murder rate half that of Washington DC. It’s not perfect yet. But no matter what the rent-a-quotes tell you, it HAS been a good job, a worthwhile one. The rest is down to the Iraqi people — it’s their country after all.

Dittos to that! God bless these brave troops. We're lucky to have them as allies.

[Stonewall Jackson]

What really burns me is how some people have been complaining about the British Army “retreating” from Basra. They haven’t retreated from anywhere, they’ve just moved their headquarters from the old Saddam palace out to the airport, where a lot of their equipment was stored anyways.