The Beginning of the End for the British in Iraq

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was in Baghdad today to approve his government's deal with Iraq to withdraw nearly all its forces from the country by mid-2009. You can read more about it here.

Of all the coalition partners except the United States, the British troop contingent has been the largest. It is to their great credit that they did not cravenly flee after the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London the way the Spanish did after the 3/11 bombings in Madrid. The "special relationship" endures.