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  • Government stunned by Army chief's Iraq blast [Original report.]

    10/16/2006 9:58:04 PM PDT · by familyop · 11 replies · 668+ views
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 12OCT06 | Daily Mail
    Last updated at 15:17pm on 13th October 2006 [familyop: Originally posted on the 12th according to the Daily Mail search engine.] A blistering assessment of British policy in Iraq from the country's top soldier left Tony Blair reeling today. General Sir Richard Dannatt said troops should come home within two years - flatly contradicting the Prime Minister's policy that the military will stay "as long as it takes". In unprecedented comments he warned that the Army could 'break' if British soldiers are kept too long in Iraq. "I want an Army in five years time and 10 years time. Don't...
  • Britain 'held hostage' by US policy [Britain's top General]

    10/16/2006 2:29:53 AM PDT · by familyop · 41 replies · 945+ views
    Scotsman (Britain) ^ | 15OCT06 | Brian Brady
    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...