Gordon Brown - How to spin nothing into news and fail re Iraq.

Anyone catch the glorious one eye'd leader on pulling out troops from Iraq? We have 4100 in Iraq at this time:

The Prime Minister, who visited Iraq at the weekend, acknowledged that the rate of reduction of British troop numbers was not as rapid as he had hoped.

After previously offering optimistic targets for drawing down troops, Mr Brown was careful to not set specific timetables.

So in short he is keeping the troops there, has nothing to announce but spins the fact to make it look like he is doing something, one has to be seen to be looking busy.

Then we have this one from old one eye:

Mr Brown added that Syria must "clamp down on the movement of foreign fighters"

Yet (as I stated previously here)the number of foreign fighters coming over the border from Syria to bolster Al-Qaeda’s numbers is thought to have declined to as few as 20 a month, compared with 120 a month at its peak.

Brigadier General Abdullah Abdul, a senior Iraqi commander, said: “We’ve limited their movements with check-points. They are doing small attacks and trying big ones, but they’re mostly not succeeding.”

So he says nothing that is not already known an is even attempting to spin with regards Syria.

The man is a total fucking dickhead, hell he can't even do the sabre rattling routine without making a proverbial pigs ear of it.

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