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Iraq: the conquerors return.

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It has been little over seven months since the British army began their slow and ignominious retreat from Iraq. In September 2007 the bagpipes played with all the expected pomp and ceremony as the union flag was lowered over the military bases of Basra to be replaced by the new flag of the newly ordained Iraqi republic. It was of course heralded as a success: the British liberators were withdrawing, the Ministry spokesmen told the world, the Iraqis are finally beginning to manage their own affairs. Mission accomplished. As has so often happened during this conflict reality has refused to stand alongside rhetoric and now, on the five year anniversary of this disastrous war, the British army are once again fighting on the streets of Basra, albeit from safe distance with the aid of artillery and air strikes. The cause of this inglorious return is the new offensive being waged against Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi army by Iraqi Prime...

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