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WE MUST QUIT IRAQ SAYS NEW HEAD OF THE ARMY

Tim Shipman

Daily Mail

Friday, October 13 -2006

EXCLUSIVE: General warns our military presence is making things worse and says moral vacuum at home breeds Islamic extremism.

THE new head of the British Army today launches an extraordinarily outspoken attack on Tony Blair’s Iraq policy.

General Sir Richard Dannatt calls for British troops to withdraw ‘SOON’ or risk the consequences both for Iraq and our society.

[A few years ago we called on Captain’s of Industry-Academics-Retired Admirals –Generals and Airman and others in the upper echelons of our community to stand up to Tony Blair and his Fanatics so it is with utter amazement that we now have to thank a serving officer of the first rank in the British Army to lay it on the line that the Iraq War must end.

This momentous stand by the new Chief of Staff of the Army will be an historical landmark in the early years of the 21^st century which will open an impassioned debate about the future of a Christian and FREE ENGLAND and the aspirations of our sister Nation States in our shared island Home.]

To continue:

In a devastating broadside at the prime Minister’s foreign policy, he says British troops’ continuing presence

‘exacerbates the security problems’

in Iraq.

A devout Christian, he also warns that there is a danger that a moral and spiritual vacuum in this country will allow

‘the Islamist threat in this country to make undue progress’.

[As a recent survey has revealed almost 60 per cent of the country consider themselves as living in a Christian country and many articles have been written over the past nine years to show that many believe that English roots of our Christian culture of over 1400 years are all around for us to see at the present day.]

To continue:

Sir Richard’s view’s will send shock waves through the Government. Although he did not specifically comment on the prime Minister, his views are sure to be interpreted as a total repudiation of Mr Blair’s –[persistent] insistence that British presence in Iraq is morally right and has had no effect on our domestic security.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Sir Richard, who took up his post earlier this year, warns that

’our presence in Iraq exacerbates the difficulties we are facing around the world.’

He describes Mr Blair’s desire to forge a ‘liberal democracy’ in Iraq as a ‘naïve’ failure. ‘Whatever consent we may have had in the first place’ from the Iraqi people’ has largely turned to intolerance.’ He adds.

In one of the most outspoken interviews given by a serving soldier, Sir Richard also reveals:

He was ‘outraged’ by reports of injured soldiers being confronted by anti-war campaigners while they were recuperating in NHS hospitals alongside civilians.

He spelled out his views to Defence Secretary Des Browne about the ‘unacceptable’ treatment of injured soldiers, warning him the Government was in danger of breaking the ,covenant’ between a Nation and its Army and should not ‘let the Army down’.

He understands why Prince William and Prince Harry want to serve on the front line but has not yet decided whether they will be allowed to fight in Afghanistan.

Yet it is Sir Richard’s views on Iraq that will enrage Downing Street. He says we should ‘get ourselves out some time soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems.’

‘We are in a Muslim country and Muslims’ views of foreigners in their country are quite clear. As a foreigner we can be welcomed by being invited in a country, but we weren’t invited by those in Iraq at the time.’

Setting himself at loggerheads with Mr Blair, Sir Richard says the good intentions of 2003 have evaporated – pitching British troops into a lethal battle which few at home can understand.

‘I think history will show that the planning for what happened after the initial successful war-fighting phase was poor, probably based more on optimism than sound planning.’

‘The original intention was we put in place a liberal democracy that was an exemplar for the region, was pro-West and might have a beneficial effect on the balance within the Middle East. That was the hope. Whether that was a sensible or naïve hope, history will judge. I don’t think we are going to do that. I think we should aim for a lower ambition.’

Mr Blair has repeatedly said British troops must stay until the Iraqi security forces are able to take charge –

A forlorn hope as the country has slipped to the brink of civil war.

Sir Richard has ‘more optimism’ that we can get it right in Afghanistan’.

After joining the Green Howards regiment in 1971, Sir Richard served in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Germany before taking command of an armoured brigade in Bosnia and all British forces in Kosovo in 1999.

He then ran Nato’s rapid reaction force before being promoted to Commander in Chief of British land forces last year and then Chief of the General Staff in August 2006.

His comments mark a departure from the attitude of his predecessor General Sir Mike Jackson and the former Chief of the Defence Staff General Mike Walker, who were both careful not to contradict government policy in public.

Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox said:

‘When I was in Iraq, soldiers told me the same thing. They said the reaction had gone from welcome to consent to mere tolerance and they said that this meant we didn’t have an indefinite licence to be there.

To have one of our senior military figures speaking out on behalf of those under his command is a refreshing change.

[Well it is a sad reflection on the majority of politicians that though many of them knew of the dangers ( many since before the war was illegally declared) they have been unable to combine to demand the withdrawal of our forces from Iraq. One wonders if their remuneration was an average wage and their term of office only for the current term of a Parliament – there would have been NO WAR IN IRAQ.

It has taken a disinterested honourable patriot to show the abundant time wasters in our House of Commons what it means to love one’s country and its Christian culture instead of steady stealthy effects of those same divisive politicians to

DESTROY our WAY-of-LIFE

CROWN

CONSTITUTION

COUNTRY

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