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British military heads critique Brown's testimony on Iraq

Other News Materials 6 March 2010 13:02 (UTC +04:00)
British military leaders have attacked statements made Friday by Prime Minister Gordon Brown that Britain had done all it could to support troops in Iraq, according to comments published Saturday.
British military heads critique Brown's testimony on Iraq

British military leaders have attacked statements made Friday by Prime Minister Gordon Brown that Britain had done all it could to support troops in Iraq, according to comments published Saturday.

"He's dissembling, he's being disingenuous," said Michael Boyce, who was chief of the defence staff up to the start of the 2003 Iraqi invasion in comment published Saturday by the Times. "It's just not the case that the Ministry of Defence was given everything it needed."

Boyce's comments were in reaction to Brown's Friday testimony before Britain's Iraq War Inquiry in which he said: "Every request that military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down."

Charles Guthrie, who led the armed forced from 1997-2001, was also critical of Brown, DPA reported.

"To say Gordon Brown has given the military all they asked for is simply not true. He cannot get away with saying 'I gave them everything they asked for.' That is simply disingenuous."

Brown was not prime minister at the start of the Iraqi invasion, but was the chancellor of the exchequer, a role that put him in charge of Britain's government budget.

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