As It Leaves Iraq, Britain Looks Warily To Afghanistan

Photo from The Daily Mail

From Christian Science Monitor:

British politicians called for an investigation into intelligence mistakes that led the country into the Iraq war.

The British combat mission in Iraq has come to an end after six years in a war that The Guardian called the "most controversial military operation since the Suez crisis more than 50 years ago."

On Thursday, British Forces handed over their airbase to a US brigade, having completed their mission to train two Iraqi Army divisions. Almost all 4,000 British troops will leave Iraq by May 31, with 400 British servicemen remaining in Basra's port city of Umm Qasr to continue training Iraqi forces.

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My Comment: If I was the Brits .... I would also be very wary of entering the Afghan war.