WH Official: "American blood is going to have to buy off the British failure in Basra."

[kpete]

More on Basra, South Iraq and Iran

"..the damage has not only been to Britain's military reputation. It has also led to the most profound split between Britain and America since relations froze during the Suez crisis 50 years ago.

Shamefully for Britain, the White House is now considering sending its own forces to sort the mess that the British have left behind. Last week, one White House official acidly remarked: "American blood is going to have to buy off the British failure in Basra."

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http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2008/03/more-on-basra-s.html

[marmar]

1. Unbelievable......Mr. Blair, these are the people that you hitched your wagon to....

.... the same people that are trying a CYA by tossing your country under the bus.

[JCMach1]

2. The idiocy continues... we need MORE British troops in Afghanistan, so

why not insult them...

Yeah, that would be a great idea...

[tama]

10. who is "we"? n/t

[JCMach1]

12. i.e. US along with NATO surrogates

and we insult one of the countries we want to shoulder the burden...

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. Yes, and our successes have been so

wonderfully fabulous in the rest of Iraq. How dare you fuck up so badly Britain. :sarcasm:

[VWolf]

4. Speechless

Wow, just, wow.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. It's never Bush's fault it's always somebody else's.

I'm surprised he isn't blaming his problems on the poles.

[madokie]

7. yea its pols alright

like in politicians that continue to give him free rein

[gratuitous]

6. More violence, more militarism

These people have one answer to everything. It's more military power, more violence, more of what didn't work, hasn't worked, won't work. There's a word for doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result, and we're saddled with an insane administration for another 10 months because our fucking Democratic "leaders" don't want to annoy the Boy King and his mad minions.

[xchrom]

8. or maybe the iraqis weren't shocked and awed after all. nt

[JohnyCanuck]

9. KBR doesn't give a shit as they make money from the screwup.

Already at the Basra air base, I can reveal, the British subsidiary of U.S. construction giant KBR is building four huge dining facilities - known to the American army as DFACs. These are capable of feeding 4,000 men and suggest that the U.S. Army is contemplatia massive deployment to southern Iraq - including a major presence inside Basra itself. "

[Sanity Claws]

11. Alienating our remaining ally

That's not very smart, is it? But no one has ever accused * of being smart.

[screembloodymurder]

13. We still have the Israelis.

Don't we?

[Wilber_Stool]

14. If diplomacy could

be likened to a dead fish, these guys couldn't be using it worse.

[Supersedeas]

15. but the poodle was always touted as the loyal stalwart

[magellan]

16. Extricating themselves from an unwinnable situation isn't a failure

It's realistic.

The failure is within the American government and the gullible people who believe them.

[baby_mouse]

17. Few people in Britain will pay much attention to this. NT