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TOP brass rounded on holidaying PM David Cameron yesterday, adding their voices to the clamour for clarity on his Iraq policy.
General Sir Richard Dannatt said “the nation would expect” Parliament to be recalled for a full debate if there was a risk of British forces getting involved in the battle between Islamic State (Isis) militants and Iraqi and Kurdish troops.
The hawkish ex-army supremo said it was “unwise” for the government to rule out “boots on the ground,” saying Britain might need to send a “training team” to help Kurdish Peshmerga fighters master high-tech weaponry being supplied by the West.
Gen Dannatt spoke from Cornwall, where the PM was snapped relaxing with his wife on Polzeath beach, Wadebridge, during his second summer getaway.
Former First Sea Lord Baron West of Spithead told the Daily Mail it was “worrying” that “we don’t seem to have great clarity of vision about what we’re going to do.”
The retired admiral said the prime minister’s threat to use “all the assets we have” to fight the Isis terror group rampaging through Iraq introduced a danger of “mission creep.”
But the Stop the War Coalition said this did not go far enough.
“British ‘strategy’ is obviously in complete confusion,” vice-chair Chris Nineham told the Star.
“But the danger is very real not just of mission creep but that we are already involved with the United States in terms of bombing raids, even if ours is currently a surveillance role.
“Special forces are on the ground already, that’s been admitted.”
Mr Nineham said the government failed to acknowledge that the catastrophe unfolding in Iraq was “the direct result of the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation.
“Britain and the US destroyed the infrastructure and laid the ground for endless sectarian conflict through a deliberate divide-and-rule strategy.
“The idea that more Western bombs are going to solve this crisis would be laughable if it were not so tragic.”
