Yesterday Gordon Brown told the Iraq inquiry that he gave the military all they needed.
For the sake of our soldiers I would like to believe him; however, how you can wage war against IEDs with a Land Rover is beyond me.
But today, Mr Brown gets both barrels from retired military chiefs in The Times and Telegraph.
“He’s dissembling, he’s being disingenuous. It’s just not the case that the Ministry of Defence was given everything it needed. There may have been a 1.5 per cent increase in the defence budget but the MoD was starved of funds.” - Admiral Lord Boyce, the Chief of the Defence Staff up to the start of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, quoted in The Times
"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." - Lord Guthrie in The Telegraph
“The real truth is the Armed Forces are underfunded.” - Major General Patrick Cordingley, quoted in The Telegraph as well.
Either the PM or the soldiers are lying; there is no other view.
Disregard whether we should be at war or not. Once we send the soldiers there we should give them everything they need. They have clearly been let down.
