Former British Iraq War Commander: Pull our troops out of Iraq

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PULL OUR BOYS OUT OF IRAQ SAYS COL. TIM COLLINS INSPIRATIONAL FORMER IRAQ WAR COMMANDER

Colonel Tim Collins

THE death last week of Major Matthew Bacon brought to 95 the number of British servicemen killed in Iraq. Yesterday, Defence Secretary John Reid said more British troops were ready, if needed, to go to Iraq to bolster the 9,000 already fighting the insurgency.

Here Colonel Tim Collins, who commanded the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment during the invasion of Iraq, and gave a stirring eve-of-battle speech of his troops, argues that the time has come for the West to get out.

WE need to get out of Iraq. Not just the Brits, but the entire Western force.

We must leave Iraq to show that any progress in the country has been achieved by the Iraqis themselves.

Otherwise it will be an echo of Vietnam in the 1970s where the government had very little credibility because it was seen as a puppet of America.