Saturday, September 01, 2007

Retired British army chief says U.S. Iraq policy 'intellectually bankrupt'

LONDON (AP)The general who headed the British army during the Iraq invasion said in comments published Saturday that the current unrest there was caused by a U.S. decision to deploy insufficient forces and to scrap diplomats' post-conflict plans.

Retired general Sir Mike Jackson said former U.S. defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld's approach to the invasion was "intellectually bankrupt" and that his claim U.S. forces "don't do nation-building" was nonsensical, according to quotes excerpted from his autobiography and published by the Daily Telegraph.......

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