It is glaringly obvious that the transfer of less than a thousand Black Watch personnel to the "American sector" is simply a political ploy so Bush mobsters can say "see, our allies in the coalition are with us all the way". A load of shit propaganda which will deplete the British garrison around Basra and the South, put Black Watch lads in the midden created by the US military, and invite opportunistic guerilla attack in the weakened south. And all for re-election of Tony Blair's "special friend". Vomit-inducing.