October 22, 200421 yr http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2...tent_383029.htm Former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the BBC: "the real risk of sending a British battalion into the U.S sector is that our troops could become associated in Iraqi minds with U.S. methods." Military analysts said such a request for help underlined the scale of the problems facing the Americans. "It probably points to the difficulty of the United States in getting enough troops over to Iraq -- we're up against the limits of U.S. military power," said military analyst Charles Heyman of Janes World Armies. "There's no doubt it would be an escalation in the profile of British troops in Iraq." Since the Iraq war began, 68 British soldiers have died, compared with over 1,000 American troops. The US is stretched so thin in Iraq that they could not come up with another 1000 troops for its upcoming attack on Fallujah, without begging the Brits to move some of their troops out of Basra to replace the US troops.
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