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BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE BASRA
3/ 9/2007
British troops have been withdrawn from their last base in Basra City. They left under fire - the Basra Palace base has been the target for continuous attack.
Downing Street have tried to spin the withdrawal as 'part of the process of handing over power to the Iraqi government' whereas this is an ignominious defeat for both the army and their political masters.
The invasion and occupation of Iraq has been one of the great crimes of recent times. The remnants of the British forces in Iraq are now hunkered down at Basra airport where they have no real political or military role except to provide target practice for the Iraqi insurgent groups and to give George Bush political cover.
What is essential now is that the troops are brought home as a matter of urgency and are no longer part of the continuing American occupation of that country.
Andrew Burgin
Stop The War Coalition
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