Britain's Army Chief Clarifies Remarks on Troop Withdrawal
1 November 2006
Amyas Godfrey, a former British army officer at the Royal United Services Institute, said officials have responded to public pressure to set a timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq by saying that it will come "when the job is done." So it is significant, he said, that the army chief has said: "We should be leaving."
"Right or wrong, there is a feeling we followed Americans into Iraq," Godfrey said. As the security situation worsens in Iraq, he said, there is a feeling of "it wasn't our idea in the first place, so why are we still there?"
Britain's Army Chief Clarifies Remarks on Troop Withdrawal
By Mary Jordan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, October 14, 2006; A18
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/13/AR2006101301455.html