George Kerevan - Iraqi infighting has outflanked Brown's bid to pull out troops

HAS anyone noticed that this week Gordon Brown's carefully-orchestrated exit strategy from Iraq crashed and burned in flames?

Last autumn, the Prime Minister got into bother for cynically flying out to Baghdad in order to upstage David Cameron's Tory Party conference speech. To recover, Mr Brown suddenly announced that British troop numbers in Iraq would be cut from 5,500...