Brits Out!

[Slyspy]

Boy you had me hook line and sinker up until the last sentence. I agree Britian should pull out, so should we as rapidly as possible. However Im confused on the "forcing them" part.

As near I can tell the cats been out of the bag on Iraq and the shotty mission for years. Brits seem to be fully aware of this, yet choose to keep supporting a failed policy.

I mean didn labour/Blair and his Iraq policy win again in 2005 with 40%?

Seems the only ones forcing them to do anything is the british public and thier choice of leader and that leaders policy. Again by 2005 the cat was out of the bag on Iraq, Brits own the choice here in 07, there psyche and untenable position are self created at this point.

By all means pull out now ! See spain/italy for tips....

If only we could vote governments into power on an issue-by-issue basis! Sadly you generally have to accept the least-worst bundle of lies...sorry, manifesto...

Edit:

Meanwhile in fractured, wartorn and tribal land sundered by ethnic and religious differences and occupied by forces far to small for the task everything is going wrong. New warlords rise up as old tensions come to the fore while criminal gangs take advantage of the chaos. Not much of a shock really.

[Odin]

If only we could vote governments into power on an issue-by-issue basis! Sadly you generally have to accept the least-worst bundle of lies...sorry, manifesto...

Oh I get it, believe me it was painful having to choose between Kerry and Bush in 04. But the parlimentary system has a little bit more wiggle room... you do have 3 viable (at least getting more then 10%) parties.

I mean Italy managed it, so did Spain and according to my well informed and opinionated brother in law Martin of Surrey the brits have perfected the notion of representative politics.

I personally am grateful for the British participation in the war, the southern theatre was crucial and they held it brilliantly. Its a dam shame that the war itself was a mistake, and poorly conducted on the U.S. end.

I think its admirable that the UK stuck it out this long, I still havent determined in my own mind if it was to safe its own face for Blairs failed Iraq policy, or the hope that the blood shed would somehow influence US policy on other matters.

I lean toward the latter, but that would mean Blair didnt realize he was dealing with a religous extremist government in Washington. Labour is still in, and arent they adhereing to the same platform of "stay the course" in Iraq under Brown?