US requests UK forces backup

NEWS: Ok this has been confirmed now,

The UK will comply with U.S. Redeployment requests

Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has confirmed The 1st Battalion The Black Watch is to be sent to the west of Iraq to replace US forces.

Mr Hoon said the deployment would involve around 850 personnel including support units and would last "weeks rather than months".


He told MPs the decision had been taken on the advice of Army chiefs who had put forward "compelling" military reasons for the move.

He said the 1st Battalion Scots Guards - equipped like The Black Watch with Warrior armoured vehicles - would take over as the reserve force for the UK.

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Originally posted by dh



The best thing the squaddie in the field could ever do
"onward, onward, rode the 600"
The senior officer class is always subjugate to the politicians necessities who in themselves have to answer to their manipulative masters
About 75% of the homeland population are dumbed-down lackies
A growing percentage of the rest are waking up and many of those would rejoice in the pawns in the frontline turning on their controllers
It really is time to wake up from this horrendously over-controlling society and its tortures and genocide

so what do you suppose? anarchy?
also one thing would you classify a major as politically influenced.
how would military men be influenced by polititions hell the military hates them.

Originally posted by dh
Sorry to be brief in reply to such a long and reasoned statement but I've no doubt that Saddam remained and remains to the end a puppet of Western will as regards his people and other surrounding nations
Iraq has the internal expertise to repair the country and doesn't need occupying by global corporations.
It just needs the trillion or trillions of dollars in reparation for years and years of sanctions, exploitation, rape and pillage and bloody mass murder, and for the occupying forces to get the hell out

so you want us to say, hey sorry we bombed and killed you heres trillions of dollars , bye. and drive off into the sunset?

Well that was a great move, surely US forces can't handle the roughest places in Iraq by themselves.

UK has come to save the day!

[edit on 22-10-2004 by Minime]