Posted on 10/16/2006 2:29:53 AM PDT by familyop
BRITAIN'S top soldier spoke out against the government's handling of the campaign in Iraq because he feared Britain was being "held hostage" by US policy in the region, friends claimed last night.
General Sir Richard Dannatt sparked a furious row over Tony Blair's foreign policy last week when he warned that British troops should leave Iraq soon because they were "exacerbating the security problems" there.
Allies of Sir Richard last night claimed he had been expressing deep concerns shared by colleagues in the highest ranks of the military - and that the real target of his attack was Washington, not London.
"He believes we are being held hostage by American policy in a number of ways," said a senior army officer who served with Dannatt. "The Americans had not done enough planning for the peace that would follow the war-fighting phase.
"We have been the prisoners of American policy failures ever since. That is what a large proportion of our senior military officers think and it is what lies behind Sir Richard's comments."
Sir Richard is believed to favour focusing on the international effort in Afghanistan.
lol!
Do you have the full context to put the quote in the proper light?
Anything that divides or undermines the alliance, and supports the media's agenda instead, is doing the work of the terrorists. You're their lackey. You are Al Qaeda's buttboy.
BTW, the only reason *I* have for thinking less of Americans is the behaviour of people like yourself, who work on trying to find anything to hit the British with. Don't think that this attitude amongst yourself and others doesn't go unnoticed by others here as well.
Ivan
Ivan
And apparently, many Britons have given different answers to American surveys from those given to British surveys.
Wrong. I've seen American news and entertainment. It's very rare that American news covers anything to do with Britain (unless it's to do with royalty) and the entertainment in America regards us as rather quaint, if somewhat backwards and eccentric (see: Family Guy).
In contrast, American politics is covered on a daily basis here - we are exposed to your internal debates in a way that you're rarely exposed to ours. In spite of the screaming lefties, John Kerry, et al - Britain still regards America as its closest ally, and has an affection for America not matched by any EU country.
Again, you go at Britain with hammer and tongs, meanwhile Germany, France, et al - do not contribute troops, and despise America more. You sit yourself - arrogantly, in my view - as some sort of arbiter as to what Europeans (and Britons) have to do - and totally disregard the actual sacrifices that have been made. I reiterate, you're carrying the terrorists' water.
Ivan
Laughable. Pew is a leftist research organisation - they had every reason in the world to solicit negative answers (and stack the questions this way), and still the response was positive.
Ivan
Great Britain
Sample design: Probability
Mode: Telephone adults 18 plus
Languages: English, Urdu, and Arabic
Fieldwork dates: April 4-26, 2006
Sample size: 902 including a 412 Muslim oversample; sample is weighted to be representative of the general population
Margin of Error: 6%
Representative: Telephone households
In spite of this questionable method, intended to get a negative result, the result was positive in terms of British attitudes towards the USA.
Ivan
I am so sick of this world. I am so sick of the world calling us "uncaring," when we pour our hearts out to help people in need. I am so sick of being portrayed as evil when our young men and women lay down their lives to protect those who can't protect themselves. I am so sick of so-called "friends" who hate us more than our enemies do, and have absolutely no misgivings at saying so. But most of all I am sick to death of Americans being so freaking stupid and blind to what is going on out there.
Hehehe! Somebody in the new world who indulge in speaking Latin, the language of the old world. The quotation in your tagline contains a pretty irony. :-)
The original reads:
Hierosolyma est perdita (HEP)
It is a phrase that the Romans used as a taunt of the jews after Jerusalem was destroyed 70 a.D.. Let's hope that the cruel original never comes true again! The shortcut HEP was used under antisemitic "intellectuals" (as if they ever could be called intelligent) until the 3rd Reich. Shalom Jerusalem!
Your words were well researched and well said. Yes, I'm taunting the remnants of Rome.
hey man, don't let him bother you. he's conveniently ignoring the fact that we have our fair share of military who are critical of the administration and the conduct of the war. though I dont condone it, it does come with having a society made up of HUMANS.
welcome to Free Republic, and I hope you stick around and don't get discouraged by the overly-critical minority.
and if you dont mind my asking, where did you do you undergrad studies?
keep on FReepin' on!
You may want to ping Mad Ivan. He's a good guy, and a few years ago, I invited him to visit us at our home the next time he comes to the USA.
Aussie Dasher is another good bloke that talks funny too (just kidding).
No one I know on FR ever puts down the Brits or Aussies.
Allies of Sir Richard last night claimed
said a senior army officer
Why does the "news" read more like a gossip column?
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