[the scotsman]

Why do you Yanks think we are ‘pulling out of Iraq’?.

We are withdrawing SOME troops to SEND TO AFGHANISTAN!.The vast majority of British troops are still in Iraq and will be into 2008-2009 with some even there into 2010.

We have also reinforced Afghanistan over and above the switch from Iraq.

Anyway,surely the whole point is that we both will leave Iraq at some point.Neither America or Britain or the Aussie are going to be there forever...

[wayoverontheright]

Perhaps I have misunderstood what Gordon Brown has been saying. It seems to me he has declared Iraq "Bush and Blair's War", decried the lynching of Saddam, and I guess I'm a little afraid he will not keep British soldiers in Iraq. Perhaps my fear is not well founded.

The British have served admirably, no doubt, and Blair is my hero for the role he has played. I'm sure he was aware it would cost him politically to back Bush on Iraq, but he did so anyway. Maybe Brown won't "go wobbley", but it seems to me the jihadists think he can be influenced, thus the attempted terror on London.