US Branded Cameron ‘Incompetent’ over Syria,
Felt ‘F*cked Over’ on Libya – Lord Ashcroft
By RT
September 22, 2015 "Information
Clearing House"
- "RT"
- General David Richards had to tell
Prime Minister David Cameron his time as an army cadet at Eton
did not qualify him to dictate military strategy and tactics,
harsh new revelations of the PM’s war record claim.
The latest revelations by former Tory donor
Lord Ashcroft, in his new book
serialized in the Daily
Mail, see Cameron accused of
incompetence over the Libyan war and the failed Syria vote in
2013 by defense ministers, US officials and senior military
officers.
The book reveals shock in the White House when
the 2013 vote to bomb the Assad regime went awry, despite
Cameron’s confidence he could get the Labour Party to vote with
him.
One Obama administration official is quoted as
calling the Syria debacle “one of those astonishing displays
of incompetence that sort of leaves you wondering about how, you
know, have we all got this far?”
In repeated clashes over defense and foreign
policy, General Sir David Richards, now Lord Richards, is
alleged to have said he had to repeatedly explain that military
intervention is not simply a case of helping “good guys”
more than the “bad guys.”
It is also claimed that Richards, at the time the
most senior officer in Britain, had to explain to Cameron that his
time as a member of the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) at Eton did not
qualify him to dictate military strategy.
A former Tory chairman, Michael Ancram, also
criticizes Cameron over Libya, saying he had done “an Iraq”
in the North African country, leaving it “ungovernable … with
vast amounts of weapons from Gaddafi’s arsenal moved south of the
border, arming Boko Haram.”
Cameron’s handling of both Syria and Libya are
said to have left the White House feeling “f*cked over,” it
is claimed.
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MP Clive Lewis.
