Obama’s Vietnam - Afghanistan

Telegraph: Reports that the new US Commander in Afghanistan General David Petraeus will argue that any troop withdrawal in 2011 from Afghanistan will have to be at a slow pace. After the sacking of the last US Commander and the hiring of General Petraeus the hero of the Iraq surge the Oval is hostage in many respects to Petraeus, the hero of the Iraqi surge allowed for the US to leave Iraq by 2011, that very hero could bring Obama down in 2012 should he resign and run against Obama in 2012 on the argument that Obama has by his policy throwing Iraq to Iran and allowing the Taliban to take over Afghanistan by any troop withdrawal. Thus Obama can not afford to sack General Petraeus, if he does any policy that the General does not agree with the General can let it be known on the Hill that any deaths are the fault of Obama and his arrogance, with the economy in a mess, the real jobless rate at around 16% Obama can not take on a real War hero in 2012, thus Obama has to listen or face being a warm act for Jimmy Carer after 2012, or even worse a non person like LBJ for many years after the Presidency. Afghanistan has becomes Obama’s War and Obama has become LBJ.

HISTORY not COOL - Cameron

BBC News: Reports that Coalition PM David Cameron has been critical of the tourism policy of the last Labour Government. The Last Labour Government stressed the modern not the history of the UK. Rather than stressing the long history of the UK and its historical sites the Labour Party wanted to start history with year 1 with its election, it wanted to return the UK to the heights of the 1960s when the UK, well London was the cool place to live and work, that policy by Labour was shallow and void of content, once Blair invaded Iraq the " Cool Crowd " did a runner from Labour, our history has more substance. Again Mr Cameron is right and Labour is stuck in its own void or backside!

Iraq and its OWN Future!

BBC News: Reports on recent negative reaction within Iraq for the US to leave by 2011. On this issue President Obama is right, the US and Iraq have an agreement signed by Bush 43 for the US to have combat troops out of Iraq by 2010 and all troops out by 2011, at the end of the day to quote JFK, “ its their War ” Kennedy was talking about South Vietnam but it holds true for Iraq, at the end of the day the people of Iraq will have to decide do they want civil war on peace, a growing secular Iraq or to be run from Tehran. The US is broke folks, thus Obama has no choice, also there is Afghanistan, its time for Iraq to get off the dime and fight for its own future.

Death in UK - Afghanistan

MOD: Reports that a UK Soldier has died in the UK of wounds that he sustained in Afghanistan, the Soldier was from the “ 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire) ”. Thus since 2001 the UK has lost 328 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, of that total it has lost 289 in combat operations and 39 due to illness, accidents or other incidents.

the MAN the BOOK - Tony Blair

Guardian: Reports on the publication day for the memoir of ex Labour PM Tony Blair, those opposed to the Iraq War have stated that they will make their presence felt at the launch. This blog in many respects has a very contradictory view of Tony Blair, as a pure politician he is up there with Lady Thatcher, on Foreign Policy he is equal with PM Eden during Suez, there is no doubt that Mr Blair is charming, in his day could connect with the UK voter, but then we come to Iraq, this blog supported the Iraq War before and during, its afterward and the failure in Basra that this blog lost confidence in Mr Blair. Also of late there have been reports that UK subjects or individuals with UK rights fell in to American hands and faced torture, as stated when it comes to UK subjects or interests this blog defends the rights of UK subjects and connection up to a point, the point is that they have to be found to be guilty of some crime otherwise any charges of torture have to be investigated with the full power of the law, as stated this blog is very contradictory view of Tony Blair and his time in power.

Al Qaeda BACK in Iraq

Telegraph: Reports that Al Qaeda is using the US Strategy against the new Iraqi State, the terrorist group has start to pay Sunni fighters more than they receive from the new Iraqi State. This could be a growing problem folks, as the Iraqi State has no new government after recent elections the absence of power allows Al Qaeda to go fishing. It is clear Obama wants out of Iraq, has announced that the US wont have any combat troops in Iraq after the end of August and all US troops will be out of Iraq by 2011. The growing nuclear ambitions of Iran means that Iraqi politicians are heading to Tehran to get support, thus while the US is getting out the Tehran Regime is growing in power in Iraq. The UK Military must be glad that we got out in 2009.

Economic Forecast Down to 2.5% - BOE

BBC News: Reports that the Bank of England had lowered its own forecast for economic growth, it has revised its figures down from 3.4% to 2.5%. Also the economy as the BBC notes will be “ Choppy ”. These lowering for economic recovery and the public spending cuts will make the Coalition Government very unpopular when the cuts really start to hurt, the UK is paying the price for the spending of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, when Labour was in power they didn’t keep something in bank for when it rained, well its boring down folks. All Labour Party has done is to be negative about the cuts, when they name cuts one can take them seriously as a Political Party.