Britain may send more troops to Iraq

[maddezmom]

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With more coalition soldiers returning home in body bags, analysts say Blair may be seen as putting British lives at risk to help out U.S. President George W. Bush in a U.S. presidential election year. Bush is already unpopular with Blair's Labour party and with the public.

"The risk is that one gets sucked into a morass in Iraq where there is no real way out, where considerable public expenditure is involved, and where British troops would suffer," said Wyn Grant, professor of politics at Warwick University.

"That could be a contributory factor to the perception that Blair had made the wrong decisions for the wrong reasons."

Monday's Times newspaper said an extra 1,500 to 2,000 troops may be deployed in Iraq, possibly in volatile cities such as Najaf, base of rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has launched an uprising against the U.S.-led occupation.

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more: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=499600§ion=news

The Poodle to the Chimps rescue. :(

[LittleApple81]

1. I feel that this is going to backfire on him. British people are more

independent in their thought process than Americans.

[buddy22600]

2. It will backfire

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. And where exactly will Blair find these troops?

Thank God for overstretched militaries. Puts a nice crimp on the ambitions of fools.

[truebrit71]

4. Having to bail the chimp out will have SEVERE consequences..

..for the poodle...

This is NOT a popular war, there ARE no WoMD Blair's main justification for sending British troops in, and this is another example of Blair doing what he is told to do by the chimp...It will NOT sit well with the general populace at all...

[Earth_First]

5. With more "coalition soldiers..."

Why don't we report it how it is: With more AMERICAN soliders returning in body bags,...