But Harry Reid told me the war in Iraq was lost. Are you saying he’s lying?
Basra will soon be calling for the return of the Scottish Highland Regiments , who got along with the locals quite well, save for the odd pot shot and some mortar titillation.
Different story from what was said yesterday...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1917616/posts?page=1
The troops represent an overall increase in the size of the force in Iraq despite the pledge by Gordon Brown this month, when “election fever” was at its height, that 1,000 troops would be home by Christmas.
It later emerged that half of them had already returned while the others would not even be setting foot in Iraq. Now 250 paratroopers from the Special Forces Support Group have been warned they will be spending Christmas in Basra. They will be joined by the 600 men of the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh Regiment, which is based in Cyprus.
The net result will be a temporary addition of 850 to the force of 5,000 troops in Iraq.