LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown rejected on Tuesday a call to pull troops out of Iraq, insisting they still had an important job to do battling militias and providing security.
In an open letter to an opposition party leader, he argued it was wrong to say the continued presence of British troops would achieve little, or to say that they were severely restricted in what they can do.
"UK forces in Basra continue to have the capability to strike against the militias and provide overall security," he said in the letter to Menzies Campbell, leader of Britain's third party, the Liberal Democrats, which opposed the Iraq war.
Campbell had called for a timetable to pull out, saying casualty levels were now unacceptable, but Brown said this would "undermine our international obligations, as well as hindering ... our armed forces and increasing the risks they face".
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It's good to see that the UK will continue to be a steadfast ally.
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