MORE BRITISH TROOPS HEAD FOR IRAQ

[dArKeR]

By Steve Purcell

Hundreds more British troops were today heading for Iraq as attacks on coalition forces continued.

More than 300 members of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment have been ordered to join peacekeepers in southern Iraq, along with Territorial Army soldiers from the Glasgow-based 52nd Lowland Regiment.

They will be responsible for helping to rebuild the infrastructure and for training Iraqi police and carrying out joint patrols with the fledgling new police force.

Some 700 soldiers from the Wiltshire-based Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment have now left for Basra.

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[placton]

1. Can you say escalation?

or VietNam?
or "the light at the end of the tunnel is a railroad train headed our way"?

[MajorFlaw]

6. I've seen this movie before and I don't like the ending. n/t

[pinto]

2. "peacekeepers"?.......n/t

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. If they're sending the Territorials en masse,

they're in serious trouble.

[NNN0LHI]

4. They are going to train some more Iraqi police? n/t

[PfcHammer]

5. that training will come in reeeeaaall handy n/t

[Voltaire99]

7. The March of Folly

It's unwinnable. Those who didn't already hate the US for a decade of murderous sanctions are learning to do so from Shock, Awe, and Bremerization.

This isn't a "war" that can be won by attrition. Every new casualty teaches another family, and all its neighbors, to hate.

Get out, you vicious incompetent fools. Get out now.

[chelsea0011]

8. NYT reported more Blackwater mercanaries than British troops in Iraq

Blair Acts!