November 4, 2007 (LPAC)--The British Army, in a document leaked to the Sunday Telegraph of London, blasts the planning and execution of the war in Iraq . The document, reportedly drawn up in late 2006, focuses mostly on the failure to plan for post-invasion "Phase IV" operations. "The evidence shows that too little planning was done for Operation Telic (the British codename for the invasion), particularly on the non-military side, and that too few resources, both human and financial, were allocated to the post-war situation." According to the Telegraph, the report makes the following points:

* British headquarters suffered from a lack of good quality
officers

* Lack of planning put Britain and the US, as occupying
powers, in "breach" of the Geneva Convention

* Lack of planning resulted in delays before essential
reconstruction could begin

* Not enough funding was requested by Army commanders or
approved by the Treasury

* British commanders were forced to work to an ideologically
driven US timetable

* Restrictive security meant too few people in government
were involved in the planning

One British officer is quoted saying that "We couldn't begin planning until it was almost too late, we just didn't have enough time so we went to war on untested plans."

While the British Army criticism sounds a lot like the criticism of US war planning under Donald Rumsfeld, it's the Brits who are preparing to leave Iraq , not the US, a fact that the Telegraph doesn't note. Soon, all that shall remain of Britain in Iraq, are her vast legions of BAE-incested private armies, contractors, and intelligence agencies, deployed so as retain the Brutish imperial insistance upon that country, the region, and the United States itself.