Brown Gives Troops Credit for Iraq Gains.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has all but called an end to his nation's war in Iraq. But as Britain's largest overseas campaign in more than 50 years comes to a close, there is little sense of victory.

In less than two weeks, British troops will hand over security responsibility for Basra, the last province they control in southern Iraq, to Iraqi troops. [...]

"It is quite clear that the British have been defeated, that they are essentially marginalized in an enclave," U.S. analyst Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in August.

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