Move Troops to Iran Border, Gordon Brown Told.

[Zookeeper]

"General David Petraeus will press Gordon Brown to increase the number of British troops patrolling the Iraqi border with Iran when he meets the Prime Minister this week.

The US commander in Iraq wants Britain to move a significant proportion of the 5,000 troops garrisoned at Basra airport to cut off the smuggling of Iranian weapons to Shia militias.

But British commanders fear that the move carries a serious risk of embroiling the UK in a war with Iran at a time when they want to withdraw from Iraq."

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"For their part, the Americans hope Iranian meddling will force British troops to stay in Basra longer.

But a defence insider who has discussed the issue with officials at the highest levels in the Ministry of Defence said: 'They are worried that if they do more on the Iranian border there will be nasty incidents for us at the fag end of a campaign and that we could get sucked into a long-lasting conflict with Iran.'"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/16/wiran316.xml

[TwilightGardener]

1. Time for the Brits to tell Petraeus: Fuck off, we've had enough

of your country's bright ideas.

[rodeodance]

2. gordons move will prove if he is Bush poodle or not

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. The Brits are being set up. n/t

[truebrit71]

4. I have a strong suspicion that the Prime Minister will tell Betrayus to go take..

...a long walk off a short peir...

The British public are beyond tired of George and Tony's War and want the boys brought home NOW...

[Zookeeper]

5. Well, I hope so. Bush is so dense he won't hear anything...

short of an outright refusal.