Healey's opposition to troop moves

Healey's opposition to troop moves

Ananova | Oct 17 2004

Comment: Healy is a high ranking Bilderberg member. The public voicing of his opinion at this time indicates that there is a fissure in the elite power structure between the US headed Globalists and the UN/EU headed Globalists.

Labour's former Defence Secretary Lord Healey has opposed the deployment of British troops around Baghdad.

He told Sky's Sunday with Adam Boulton that British forces should leave Iraq as quickly as possible.

"If we do anything it is better to do it in Basra where we have managed to keep the bulk of the population on our side.

"The Americans, by bombing civilians without any real care or attention, have turned the whole of the Iraqi people against them and indeed the whole of the Muslim world."

Only a UN force under the direction of the Security Council would command Iraqi support, he said.

However, Health Secretary John Reid rejected a suggestion that deploying British troops to the US was a "political gesture".

"For people to suggest that there is some tawdry political deal here, I think, diminishes the effort that has been made by our soldiers on the ground," he told BBC1's Breakfast with Frost programme.

"There will be occasions when you are fighting in coalition when, at a given tactical level, you operate under your ally's control.

"But the decisions will be made on an operational ground."