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In his speech on November 6 to the Royal College of Defense Studies, Prime Minister Gordon Brown attacked the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai of lacking support from his own countrymen evidenced by the continuing deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is himself facing similar constraints from his own countrymen which he has determinedly continued to ignore. The Prime Ministers conditions for deploying further British troops are evidence of his act as an emperor without clothes acting as if he is dressed. These are the conditions that Gordon Brown has said must be met before he will send 500 additional troops:

The British troops must take with them military equipment suitable to meet their needs in Afghanistan, NATO must assume a greater military presence, and the Afghanistan government must send more of their own troops to fight with the foreign contingent.

Gordon Brown was attacked for not understanding that the British presence of 9,500 troops are there only as a token to the American presence there.