[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.

Regrads

[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?

[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.

[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...

[kimoajax]

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

[kabar]

BS

[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 )

[DB]

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

But they did for the British out.

[BfloGuy]

Just a preview of what we’ll face when the perfection-caucus sits home on Election Day and lets the Democrats win.

[pacelvi]

boy oh boy, i’ve been hearing for years how well the UK was doing and how horrible we were...

I always knew it was a crock.

UK is finished as a Major Power. It’s also finished as a culture.

[Earthdweller]

I call BS.

[George W. Bush]

I would think this would be an excellent opportunity for Britain and America to ambush those who try to attack the British withdrawal. Carpetbombing, the whole enchilada.

They may have an opportunity to kill hundreds or thousands of terrorists/insurgents in a single blow.

[bw17]

This sounds like a trap we’re setting for an overconfident Mahdi Army backed by an overconfident Iran.

As the Brits withdraw, it’ll lure out the undesirables...making them easy pickins’ for U.S. forces.

[Michael A. Velli]

Well, they can’t stay there forever. Might as well pull out and see what happens.

Basra has long been one of the tamer locales in Iraq. It’s fate should give us some indication as to the readiness of the Iraqis to govern and police themselves.

[ought-six]

Britain needs another Churchill. Hell, WE need a Churchill!

[chasio649]

The surge is working!!...wrong surge but it’s still a surge.