Well, overstretch is now official! "MoD slammed on troop overstretch" was reported this morning - so these wonderful morale-improving gestures will just rub yet more salt into the wound....
See
http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/2004...e39bd56cf2.htm for more information.
But no doubt Teflon Tone and BuffHoon will smarm their way out of this one.....yet again!
Bruce George's blunt, clearly spoken manner is a welcome change in the sea of spin and half truth more normally typical of this government.