Troops out...yawn...
Ming Campbell wants troops out of Iraq:
"There is a moral obligation - even those of us who were opposed to the war accepted a moral obligation to the people of Iraq - but it can't be open-ended.
"It's got to be somehow reflected in Iraqi government and in the Iraqi people taking responsibility for themselves."
He said the government needed to explain to Parliament and the UK public what was happening, as there had not been a debate on Iraq for two years.
I prefer, however, the view of the deputy Iraqi Prime Minister:
Iraq deputy PM Barham Salih said his country still needed the international community to help fight extremists.
"We need to work together to ensure that that day will come when Iraqis are fully in charge of security," he said.
The fact is, we've made such a massive pig's ear of the whole thing, that we cannot just abandon Iraq now. We must keep troops in Iraq until the country is stable enough to look after itself. For better or worse.
Cory
