News American Forces pull out of London

Its been 5 friggen days.... Maybe the US military thinks we need to wait longer then 5 freaken days to make sure everythings ok... The brits i know are barely getting back to criticizing the French! :D

 

Seems Britain and the US might also be in a hurry to leave Iraq and leave it to the Iraqis to sort out the mess;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4671747.stm

 

Oh there all of a sudden "In a hurry"?

 

they better follow that order! lol. Thats what soldiers do, follow orders

 

The ban has now been lifted;

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13385130,00.html [Broken]

Also;

Police are searching 5 houses in Leeds in connection with the attack on London based on intelligence reports and in a separate anti-terror operation armed police have surrounded a house in Burley, Leeds.

ps Seems the house is where the suspected bus bomber lived with his family.

 

If I may conjecture, this is in response to the OP's last line (which clearly misses this point).

 

Is self abuse legal in this state?

 

isn't this over-reacting a bit?

It is not unusual for the US govt. to protect off-duty solidiers by informing them of regions of possible heightened terrorism against US citizens. And it was rescinded, as expected, in any case.

This is hardly a 'Defeat' as claimed by the OP, but just simply common-sense personnel management.

 

It looks like the Air Force imposed a ban though. That's going a little further than "informing"...but it still does not seem like an extremely unreasonable thing to do. Perhaps not too well thought out, but that's about it.

 

So in your view American commanders shouldn't exercise control over the travel of servicemen and women during an emergency so as not to encourage the terrorists? Seems like terribly empty gesture and a dangerous one at that.

Rev Prez

 

Still not reading your own sources, huh? This article talks about hopes to draw down American and British troop presence, not to abandon the mission.

Rev Prez

 

I wouldn't just say his view, every British broadcasting station, politicians, the British public and even tourists have criticised the American commander for giving the order to his men and their families to stay out of London.

 

You are being rude again However I'll explain. This article refers to a memo discussing the desire to reduce troop numbers significantly in the near term and comes a couple of days after a US gov't report showing a 9 fold increase in insurgency attacks in Iraq (not even counting attacks against military targets).

 

It also speaks of a desire to reduce numbers dependent upon the training of Iraqi forces to keep the peace themselves. It's a little misleading of you to say they're simply pulling out, or even that they're in a hurry, since this is a target for a year from now. Also, the article makes it pretty clear that not all in the military, particular the commanders on the ground, are in favor of this. It also mentions that Spain has completely withdrawn and Italy plans to do the same, so it's odd that you would single out the UK and US when they are only reducing their numbers.