Brown Plans to Withdraw Troops as He Backs Obama Over "War on Terror"

http://www.truthout.org/article/britains-pm-backs-obama-plan-iraq-and-afghanistan

Sunday 20 July 2008



by: Jane Merrick, The Independent UK


British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (second from left) and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meet in Baghdad. Mr. Brown has set a plan to withdraw British troops and is in agreement with Barack Obama's plan to shift attention to Afghanistan. (Photo: Khalid Mohammed / AP)

Basra - Gordon Brown prepared the ground for a historic realignment in the "war on terror" yesterday by setting out a four-point plan for withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by the end of next year.

Although he is refusing to set a detailed timetable for withdrawal, it is clear Mr Brown is in agreement with the US presidential candidate Barack Obama on the need for military action in Afghanistan to take priority. Both appear to be working to a 16-month timetable.

While Mr Brown addressed troops in Basra and met Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, the Democratic hopeful arrived in Afghanistan to declare the US mission there to be more important than that in Iraq. Mr Obama is expected imminently in Iraq, and he will continue on to Europe. He will meet Mr Brown in Downing Street on Saturday.

carlyle group is not going to like this:wow: Where's tony when ya need 'im?

if such a thing can be possible.

This has to be the British people's worst nightmare.