Army chief attacks US over Iraq

By Con Coughlin and Neil Tweedie

Last Updated: 1:56am BST 01/09/2007

General Sir Mike Jackson, the head of the British Army during the invasion of Iraq, has launched a scathing attack on the United States for the way it handled the post-war administration of the country.

The former chief of the general staff said the approach taken by Donald Rumsfeld, the then US defence secretary, was "intellectually bankrupt", describing his claim that US forces "don't do nation-building" as "nonsensical".

Sir Mike's comments - made in his forthcoming autobiography Soldier, serialised exclusively in The Daily Telegraph - represent the most outspoken criticism of American military policy in Iraq to come from a senior British officer.

His attack - the first time he has revealed the depth of his anger towards the US administration - highlights the deep-seated tension between the British command and the Pentagon during the build-up to and the aftermath of the Iraq campaign in 2003.

Sir Mike, who took command of the British Army one month before US-led forces invaded Iraq, said Mr Rumsfeld was "one of those most responsible for the current situation in Iraq"...[Open in new window]

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Rummy scummy? Who knew?

Ah, everyone except deluded Bushistas.

Inhuman, sack of shit, Dick Cheney called him the greatest Sec. of Defense we've ever had.

To me, Rummy seemed like a confused old man who was going to do it his way no matter how many people were killed.

Rummy should be tried & imprisoned for war crimes along with several dozen other traitorous neo-cons in (& out) of the Bush administration.

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