Quote of the Day
Iraq war hero Chris Finney says…
“I have found the return to civilian life humbling. My George Cross counted for little when I tried to find a job in the middle of a recession. The usual grumbling by soldiers at the politicians who determine their fate has for me hardened into real anger. When I left the Army, I qualified for a resettlement allowance of just £500. In contrast, MPs who leave the Commons receive between 50% and 100% of their annual salary to help them ‘adjust’ to live outside Parliament. Where is the fairness in that?
What makes me even more furious is the lack of respect shown by the Government to those who have paid the highest price and made the ultimate sacrifice: the war dead. Why is there no Minister in attendance when our fallen heroes from Afghanistan are brought home to repatriation ceremonies at Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire? I couldn’t believe it when I read that Gordon Brown had phoned Simon Cowell to ask how Britain’s Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle was when she had a breakdown. He doesn’t phone any of the bereaved families. I thought that was absolutely disgusting, a real slap in the face for the parents of the hundreds of soldiers killed.”
Labour are an amoral and spineless bunch of “chumps”. They do not understand the military and have managed to involved in an unwinabke war. To think that the Taliban were once allied to the West In the war against Communism, how did it ever get to this mess. We should have kept them on side ( by bribery if neccessary) and had them kill al quaeda for us. But no we have to bring them democracy and the benefits of our way of life, what a fucking tragedy..
It is a disaster. How different it is, campaigning at the stump with lofty ideals, plans half thought through, pledges and promises provided at no cost at all, to the reality of the decision-making required when the responsibility is owned.
Labour has been as a rabbit caught in the headlights from the point at which Afghanistan became an operation. There are no clear war aims- no picture of victory, no defined or empirical measurements of progress or otherwise, and hence, no milestones, no timetable, no end in sight.
They have been lamentable in response to the changing circumstances in theatre, slow,slow witted, lacking resolve, lacking commitment, and worse, during all that time balancing their political agendas with nothing more than their other political agendas.
So our troops are sent to war on a compromise package: not enough of them to get the job done, but enough to “contain the situation;” not enough equipment lest the budget is broken, not sufficient political will so that we cannot be accused of imperialism, not enough help from our allies in Europe in case we upset “other important negotiations,” muted recognition of the sacrifices, so as not to upset the Imams. No hard-headed cold-blooded pragmatism which might offend the Americans.
The last being the biggest problem. Obama is also caught in the headlights. He has similar domestic “issues” to consider. So the point of the exercise is completely lost; in an intractable situation, while the politicians agonise over their expenses, some of our finest young men and women are being slaughtered in the name of Democracy. Youngsters who do actually understand the meaning of words like: honour, duty, service, patriotism, respect, chivalry, freedom. The lives of heroes like Olaf Schmid (see: http://www.michaelyon-online.com/ ) and five more men today, God bless all their souls, who are given undo-able jobs in impossible circumstances in the face of unassailable odds, are the negotiated price of political expediency and positioning. Be clear, politicians have to go back to the stump.
It is disgusting. Our ‘finest’ come home from hell on earth to a £500 discharge, yet the people who sent them there argue the cut-off of their £68,000 golden parachute.
I salute all our troops, I weep for the families whose losses are incalculable, I pray for those who are out there who we hope return safely.
I am incandescent at their masters.
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That is as Brown is filth.