According to Google UK news some pipsqueak ministerial spokesman has said that Sir Richard Dannat is living on borrowed time, or words to that effect.
Who is this person? Probably another spin dealer who thinks he's bigger than the Almighty himself. And, Michael Portillo, a former Defence minister, has said that Sir Richard should not have meddled in politics and deserves to be sacked. Michael Who? Oh, you mean the one with the Libido with a capital L. The word "sack" comes easily to him, if you like a pun.
In 1915 there was a war minister called Churchill who took his troops into Gallipoli. The ensuing battle saw a humiliated force of Anzacs and British defeated soundly by the Turks. Churchill resigned then but later went on to became a great man.
In 2003 a Prime Minister listened to a US President going on about atrocities and WMD's. He took his troops into Iraq and found that the US President had fired his sixgun without looking at the big picture.
(or was the Prime Minister as blinkered as his colleague?).
The big picture was actually quite simple: Iraq is a disaster--the war was never planned properly--and who are bearing the consequences? The troops and the Iraquis (650 000 lost). It is a no-win situation.
On his shining charger along comes the chief of the army, Sir Richard, and he, with wisdom, says (not a quote): I feel for these exhausted, under-equipped, unpopular men---time we got out of here. (by the way that is what Kitchener roughly said to Churchill).
Blair, unlike Churchill, will not go down as a great man. In fact he will probably be remembered as a war monger.
It is time he was pushed out so that our exhausted troops can come home and we can reclaim some of our pride. Before Iraq really does become another Gallipoli!
