Is the US now briefing against Britain? Britain "beaten in Basra"

[UKProPeace]

I've just read this report, and it struck me that before Brown stated categorically that it was upto Britain when to withdraw our troops from Iraq I don't remember seeing Britain being briefed against by Blair's "special friends":

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/07/warmy107.xml

The result has been a security vacuum which has allowed the city's religious, tribal and criminal factions battle it out for control of the streets.

"The British have basically been defeated in the south," the intelligence official told the Washington Post.

In a report to be published tomorrow in the influential American newspaper, the official said that a contingent of 500 British troops based at Basra Palace were "surrounded like cowboys and Indians."

Outside the palace walls, fighters allied to the three biggest Shia Muslim groups wage war with impunity.

Brown must have done something to anger Bush when he went to Washington, when reports like this start showing up....Whatever you said to anger the rogue regime Mr Brown, well done, it obviously worked!

Edit to add - Now you've said "no" once, keep on saying it Gordon! That's what this country has needed for a long time. Plus there are much more noble and worthy causes for you to be "prudent" with taxpayers money on.