US 'surge' in Iraq 'likely to fail': British lawmakers

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Source: AFP

LONDON (AFP) - The US "surge" of troops in Iraq is likely to fail, a British parliamentary committee said Monday as it delivered a critical report on London's foreign policy in the Middle East.

"It is too early to provide a definitive assessment of the US 'surge' but it does not look likely succeed," the House of Commons Foreign Affairs committee said in a wide-ranging document. The Commons is Britain's lower parliamentary chamber.

"The committee believes that the success of this strategy will ultimately ride on whether Iraq's politicians are able to reach agreement on a number of key issues."

Instead, it called on the government to set out what action it was taking to foster political reconciliation between Sunni and Shia Muslims and Kurds in Iraq. And it called for evidence of Iran's backing for insurgents in the south.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070812/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusbritainmilitary_070812230949

[TwilightGardener]

1. Well, Fox News sez we're winning, so guess what, Brits?

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!

[bemildred]

2. Ya think? nt

[mvd]

3. Here's to the truth!

:kick:

[xchrom]

4. so -- will bush use THIS british intelligence --

or will this get into that glowing september report?

[LeftishBrit]

5. Even someone with the brains of a flea or a British MP can see this!

Why is Bush such an insane idiot in this matter (well, in most matters)?

[roseBudd]

6. Click through to register a page view & rate it a 5!

[Amonester]

7. You'd think that after more than FOUR years of such a blatant...

WAR CRIME (i.e. bound to fail from the very beginning...), and even after that incriminating Cheney's 1994 video... those supposedly representatives of taxpayers who fund that war crime for oil so big oil corporations can gouge the taxpayers they supposedly represent at the pump on a daily basis, would get a clue... or would even start reading about the history of their grandparents' mis-guided "colonial adventures" of the beginning of the twentieth century IN THAT SAME LOCATION, and realize how doomed they are for ignoring it...

They really think we're all a bunch of idiots LIKE THEM.