“Happy Christmas, your war is over!”
GORDON Brown yesterday delivered a stirring festive message to Our Boys in Iraq: “Happy Christmas – war is over.” The PM was cheered as he praised UK troops and revealed combat operations in Basra will end “within two weeks”. Iraqi forces will take over as the 4,500-strong British force switches from front-line duties to a training role. By early next year, our contingent in Southern Iraq will be cut to 2,500 – and may be withdrawn completely in March. The PM broke the good news in a flying visit to Iraq. He landed at the Army’ s base at Basra airport in darkness in an RAF Hercules transporter plane. Minutes later he spoke to Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki. He then gave a rousing speech to 300 squaddies after shaking hands with them all.
To warm applause, he told them the region – the last under British control in Iraq – would be handed back to the Iraqis in a fortnight. He said: “The Prime Minister of Iraq has asked me to pass on his thanks to you for helping to rebuild the democracy of Iraq. “This is because of the operations over the last month that you have been involved in. “The security situation has not only improved, but he is able to tell me he will now be recommending a move to a provisional Iraqi control within two weeks.
Would somebody wake our president, and tell him the good news.
>>So something actually was being
>>accomplished in Iraq BY MILITARY
>>FORCES?
Not really, other than undoing the damage we inflicted by Dumbya’s misguided invasion of the wrong fucking country.
>>The British are standing down as the
>>Iraqis stand up, just as President
>>Bush said.
Hey! Are you Karl Rove? Dick Cheney? NOBODY else would say that.
Its ironic that after Saddam Hussein fell, iraqi christians are now fleeing for their lives, leaving iraq in droves. Iraq has had christians for 2000 years and it looks like this is the last swan song for their presence due to the USA invasion and occupation.
Iraq used to even have jews, but at last word there were 2 left, very old men who refuse to leave but I suspect they will get killed off by the Badr Brigades of the SCIRI which the USA put into power.
Mission Accomplished!
Pull out? Doesn’t sound manly to me…better leave it in there and get the job done!
Cheers
Phillep said, Greg, Moslems have too long and bloody a record for me to put any effort into “healing our relationship with the Moslems”.
Longer and bloodier than what other people?
Longer and bloodier than Christian European culture?
You say, “Islam murdered more people in India alone than Christianity ever did. ”
Are you serious? Take just ONE of our World Wars, let alone BOTH, and the Muslims can’t beat that for body count. Not even close.
You’re kind of history revisionist bigotry is what makes societies suckers for wars. Don’t let yourself be a pawn, like that.
Greg, where do you get the silly notion that the World Wars were motivated by religion?
When Prince Harry gets the call, it’s time to withdraw. How could I make that any plainer? The UK couldn’t keep him out of their draft system forever. But they could pull out of Iraq before he’s put at risk for too long. So he ends up getting the Elvis treatment. A safe little job away from the real danger. You don’t honestly believe that their gov’t will risk Harry’s neck, for Bush’s war? Pul-lease!