Tony Blair risks a "historic" humiliation over the British Army's continued presence in Iraq, a former colonel said last night.
Tim Collins: 'The Army could be chased over the border into Iran'
Tim Collins, whose eve-of-battle address during the Iraq war has been praised as among the greatest in British military history, raised the spectre of the Army being defeated by insurgents and chased out of the country. He called on the Prime Minister to "fall on his sword" after presiding over what he termed a "right rollicking cock-up".
Ministers are likely to try to shrug off his attack as a politically motivated move by a Conservative Party supporter, but the former soldier's credentials add weight to his comments.
I'd say it looks just about the closest thing to a rollicking cock up I've ever seen.
Tim Collins: 'The Army could be chased over the border into Iran'
Tim Collins, whose eve-of-battle address during the Iraq war has been praised as among the greatest in British military history, raised the spectre of the Army being defeated by insurgents and chased out of the country. He called on the Prime Minister to "fall on his sword" after presiding over what he termed a "right rollicking cock-up".
Ministers are likely to try to shrug off his attack as a politically motivated move by a Conservative Party supporter, but the former soldier's credentials add weight to his comments.
I'd say it looks just about the closest thing to a rollicking cock up I've ever seen.
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