Britain faces Iraq rout says US

The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 08/19/07 | Sarah Baxter and Michael Smith

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Then why not coincide the British withdrawal with saturation bombing of Iranin facilities within 200 miles of the border?

[ARE SOLE]

British leadership lets down the British army. It is always the leadership, even in the US. God bless the Brit troopers who have risked and in some cases lost their lives for nothing.

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[tet68]

It will do us no good to see an ally routed in defeat,
if a much stronger US presence is needed let us make it so
and come down HARD on the terrorists.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Gee, I kept hearing about how the British no-confrontational policy was so much more successful than the aggressive U.S. cowboy policy. Based on their decades of colonial experience, even if the last British official with any colonial experience has been in a nursing home for two decades.

[DuncanWaring]

Dunkirk II?

[ishabibble]

Amen to that! The Brits need our help withdrawing from Basra? Fine by me.
Gordon Brown is going to lead that country into the Handcart to Hell. God bless the British soldiers who served so gallantly.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, I sort of doubt that we're going to allow the Brits to take this one on the chin. For one thing they've earned better, for another, why allow the terrorists a propaganda victory when it can be prevented?

We surge south. The current British presence is around 5500 troops. Quadruple that with Iraqi augmentation and confront the Iranians directly. Break the local militias if they resist. This is absolutely attainable.

This article mirrors the infamous one in the NY Times of a few weeks ago in that it gives the impression that the military situation is so dire that we or the Brits would be lucky to be able to safely retreat. That may be what a lot of people on the Left are desperately hoping but it simply isn't the case.

[Grimmy]

Amen.

Unfortunately, The Brit high command could never figure out that Iraq is not Ireland, even if they both start with an I.

God Bless the UK soldiers. This isn’t their failure.

[stylin19a]

A MILITARY adviser to President George W Bush has warned that British forces will have to fight their way out of Iraq in an “ugly and embarrassing” retreat.

and the same thing will happen to us if the RATS get their way...
course, maybe if it does happen to the British, Pres. Bush looks like a genius...again. A little parting gift from MR. Rove...

[mountaineer1997]

+1000

[ishabibble]

So true. They never had the absolute mandate that our guys do...I would not want to fail and return to face George W. Bush!!

[alarm rider]

Not even close.

[kimoajax]

What gives? Seems like Brits and the French are switching roles.

[kabar]

BS

[Blue State Insurgent]

Crush the Jaysh Mahdi, liberate Sadr City then put the Badr gangsters on notice that law and order is coming to Basra.

[bert]

Prior to withdrawal, they should send a regiment to capture and detain alll the staff of the BBC.’

The detained traitors should be shipped to Diego Garcia or a new facility in the Falklands where they can be closely interrogated.

[uncbob]

Maybe a play to get the bad guys to attack and fall into a US ambush ( I can hope can’t I )

[DuncanWaring]

I hope not.

[DB]

“They want to make it clear they have forced the British out.”

But they did for the British out.