[Logophile]

"It seems to be lost on the British and American governments that Iraq holds the world's second-largest oil reserves. There is also the nightmare scenario of Iraq becoming an Islamic fundamental state, willing to give succour to groups like al-Qaeda."

Nonsense. The British and American governments have committed troops and considerable treasure to prevented such a nightmare scenario. Where has this "senior source" been sleeping for the past five years?

[Eagle Eye]

The Brits haven’t been involved with proactive patrolling, etc for quite some time and the result is that their areas of ‘control’ in Iraq are extremely unstable and unsafe. Much ground has been lost there.