Happy Xmas, your war is over

[RamboLiberal]

Source: The Sun

GORDON Brown yesterday delivered a stirring festive message to Our Boys in Iraq: “Happy Christmas – war is over.”

The PM was cheered as he praised UK troops and revealed combat operations in Basra will end “within two weeks”.

Iraqi forces will take over as the 4,500-strong British force switches from front-line duties to a training role.

By early next year, our contingent in Southern Iraq will be cut to 2,500 – and may be withdrawn completely in March.

The PM broke the good news in a flying visit to Iraq.


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article563496.ece

[xchrom]

1. wish we could say happy christmas to our soldiers that way. nt

[allisonthegreat]

6. that would be very nice if we could n/t

[JBoy]

2. If that was Bush he would have added "and you won"

Oh wait, he already did say that.

[harmonicon]

4. thank god we did win

Can you imagine what a quagmire that war could have turned into had it not been so capably handled? Why are the British still there at all? It's been over for years!

[Mnemosyne]

5. hehe

Getting ready for Iran takes time.

[Greeby]

3. A Sun article on DU?

[evilkumquat]

7. At First, I Thought the Photo was Bush

The first thing that went through my mind when I saw the photo on Yahoo! News was "what is that shithead doing now?"

Because at a glance, all I saw was a white guy in front of a lot of desert camo, and figured it was Bush getting another photo op with his favorite props.

Evil Kumquat

[tom_paine]

8. I love the Free World. They do things we Amerikan Subjects never could.

England, with all it faults and flaws, is home to a freer system of government, in practice, anyway, and a people who for some reason have maintained at least some of their Churchillian character, while our nation and people are now reconfigured to a nation and people taht would have gleefully goosestepped behind Hitler. Well 30% of us, just like in Nazi Germany. And, just like in Nazi Germany, the other 69% of 70% remaining will stick their fingers and their ears, covber their eyes, and pretend what used to be...is.

I love the Free World. I love it more now that I and my nation aren't a part of it, anymore.

[SpiralHawk]

9. "We no longer believe the lies of Commander AWOL" - Brown

"Yes, we have finally seen through this phony war started by the anti-American republicon chickenhawk homelanders who have stolen the USA's democracy, and then started an unjust oil-profits crusade for the benefit of portly republicon homelanders. We will shed not another drop of British blood in support of these fatcat fascist fabricators."

- Brown