The British leaving Basra

(Telegraph) "A senior army commander has said that British troops in Iraq feel they lack public support because the conflict remains mired in "spin and dodgy dossiers"."

(BBC) "A British general told me - privately and off the record of course - that the Army had been defeated, pure and simple."

(Telegraph) "American troops may have to be sent to Basra once British force levels are halved next year, the Army's senior general in the region has conceded for the first time."