Well done to UK senior officers!
Many acquaintances have been shocked by the gung-ho knuckle draggers paraded on the media as representatives of the US 'brass'. (You know, the shaven headed jug-eared inarticulate chap and he of the 'It's Hammer Time' exhortation).
What a contrast our senior blokes provide. Calm, measured, dignified, professional and 'sensitive'. Blokes like Major General Brimms, Air Marshal Burridge and Group Captain Al Lockwood reassure the civilian population hugely - especially the semi-peacenik ones who are uncomfortable if they sense that war is being 'glorified'. And I suspect that they make the rest of us damned proud to be British, too!
But could someone tell Al Lockwood that it's Iraq (with the I like the i in if, and preferably with a nice long a) and not Eye-raq?