Ret. U.K. Army Head Slams U.S. Iraq Policy

Finally we have a top general (albeit British) denouncing the Bush gang's Iraq adventure:

The head of the British army during the Iraq invasion described former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's approach as "intellectually bankrupt," according to comments published Saturday.

[...]He writes that Rumsfeld refused to deploy enough troops following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime to maintain law and order, and rejected the State Department's plans for post-invasion administration of the country. Jackson is also critical of President Bush for handing control of post-invasion Iraq to the Pentagon. "All the planning carried out by the State Department went to waste," he writes.

The Bush bunglers have made the terrorism threat worse. The British would certainly know about that:

In his book, which the newspaper will serialize starting Monday, Jackson also criticizes the U.S. approach toward tackling global terrorism as inadequate, accusing Washington of relying too heavily on military power at the expense of nation building and diplomacy.

In "Soldier," Jackson also writes how he and other senior officers in the British military doubted the Blair government's charges of Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction in 2002, or the claim that the U.K. was directly threatened with attack.

[...]Last year, Gen. Richard Dannatt, the current head of all three of Britain's armed forces, called for his troops to be withdrawn from Iraq soon, saying their presence was provoking rather than preventing violence.