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THIS SPACE IS RESERVED To Serve
Our Brave Soldiers
Where Ever They Are.
IRAQ &
AFGHANISTAN
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IN MEMORIAM
They loved their comrades -their
families and friends and they gave their all for their country in
Iraq
174
Afghanistan
89
Total number of
British service personnel
killed in
the above theatre of war has reached .-
263
The above figure covers ALL
fatalities whether killed in action or by accident
LATEST CASUALTIES
1 soldier killed in Afghanistan
January 20, 2007
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AFGHANISTAN
-TOTAL TROOPS DEPLOYED - KILLED.
-2004-2008
(Feb,7)
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A REPLY
TO THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH
LEADER
OF FEBRUARY 29, 2008 -
A PRINCE IN
AFGHANISTAN?
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[5 - SAS soldiers
have been killed in the last year. The Puma
helicoptor should have been replaced years ago but
the MoD has been under resourced and therefore many
deaths among our Armed Forces could have been
prevented.
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THE LOST WAR
by
Ben Anderson
BBC Foreign
Correspondent
IN AFGHANISTAN
[Daily Mail-Saturday
November 3-2007
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The last few
parargraphs:
I asked a number of
soldiers whether Afghanistan was a fight worth dying
for and they all - with the exception of one major -
answered 'NO'
With more than 80
soldiers killed -the vast majority in the 18 months
since the British moved into Helmand -and hundreds
more injured, the British Army is sustaining
casualties at a rate not seen since World War II. A
real war is being fought. And it is these very
soldiers who told me this war is now an effort which
is unsustainable - especially given the decades
-long commitment our leaders are now talking about.
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AFGHANISTAN THE ROAD TO
RUIN AND DEATH FOR THE BRITISH ARMY
by Daily Mail Columnist
Andrew Alexander
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General Dannatt speaking
today on Friday 21, September,2007 - the soldier's soldier and
general is asking that the population at large should be
more supportive of their service personnel when
they return back into their communities.
As a good soldier and
leader of men that he
is, he is trying his best to look after his troops
not only in the battlefield but also when they are
in their home communities back home, and no one can
condemn he for it.
The difficulty is
that the battles which are being fought in Iraq
particularly, do not have the support of the majority
of people at home .Most people now realise that it
is an illegal war which Bush and Blair arranged for
their own reasons - though many believe it was to
obtain a friendly regime in power in order to gain
oil concessions.
Afghanistan as every
one knows was invaded by the Americans in 2001
and the country was brought under their control.
They then let matters go from bad to worse and then
decided to get Nato involved in order to get it
respectability for its actions in that region which
has again been associated with oil supplies.
With the withdrawal
of our troops to Basra airport it has enabled
the insurgents to attack our troops in Afghanistan.
So for every life saved in Iraq by their partial
withdrawal more of our troops will die in
Afghanistan.
General Dannat must
realise that he and his troops are in a no - win
situation as Iran and other Islamic nations will do what
ever is necessary to drive our troops from the region.
To expect the general
public to behave as if there were no countrywide
revolt against the war in Iraq and the mission
impossible in Afghanistan is an impossibility.
Of course our troops
must be afforded the respect of their fellow
subjects which we are sure already exists but
to expect the majority population to say that they
are doing a great job in that region is beyond the
pale.
They are doing their
job professionally as expected of some of the best troops in the
world and even the insurgents would acknowledge that
but they are doing no more than a holding exercise.
Bush and Blair and
the MoD and those members of Parliament who voted
for the illegal war in Iraq are the real culprits
who have placed our service personnel in the caldron
of fire which is being fed by the anger of the
Islamic World at this dangerous, foolish and
foolhardy adventure which past history has shown
will end in more bitterness and a further Middle
East conflict of even more dangerous proportions.
General Dannatt
wishes to give heart to his hard pressed service
personnnel at a time when because of the failure of
the MoD to encourage more members of the public to
join the forces in order to give his hard pressed
troops more time home with their families he can see
that they are under constant pressure with little
relief and when they are wounded they are not
afforded the proper care in a dedicated military
hospital and if members of the TA will have to do
with one week a year training in the UK and if
wounded not afforded the same close support of
members of the military establishment.
Of course everyone
knows that our soldier's have to fight wherever they
are sent. The must be supplied with the latest
equipment -body and transport and support armoured
transport and air cover and recovery on a scale
which the fourth richest country in the world must
provide.
We can understand
General Dannatt's appeal to the people at home but
he also knows that it is the Government and those
who voted for the intervention that have the real
responsibility for the cross he and his troops bear
in their battle to do their distastful task with the
minimum of casualties until the politicians close
the book on the errant war.
The public's attitude
is very similar to the American parallel of Vietnam
and we all know the affect of that unpopular war in
the U.S, Their casualties on arriving back in the
States were also treated abominably in sub-standard
conditions, until the public outrage changed their
government's attitude to care for those who have
been disabled in body and mind for as long as it
takes.
General Dannatt as we
know is not only a General of his flock he is also a
Christian and therefore everything he says should be
afforded respect and his utterance on behalf of his
troops will know doubt drive home, but in the
final analysis it is the politicians who have to
lead the way out of the present impasse and find a
way to PEACE.
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HELL ON EARTH
IN
IRAQ
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WE HAVE RUN OUT
OF TROOPS
says
HEAD of ARMY
[Daily Telegraph-July
21,2007]
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As General
Dannatt
said in October 2006:
“The treatment of soldiers in civilian wards shows society’s lack of understanding of the needs of our troops
It is not acceptable for our casualties to be in mixed wards with civilians, Sir Richard says.
‘I was outraged at the story of someone saying:
“Take your uniform off.”
‘Our people need the privacy of recovering in a military environment – a soldier manning a machine –gun in Basra loses consciousness when he is hit by a missile and next recovers consciousness in a hospital in the UK.
He wants to wake up in a familiar sights and sounds, he wants to see people in uniform. He doesn’t want to be in a civilian environment. We exacerbate the culture shock.’
Gordon
Brown in your homeland you have some of the most famous
regiments in the country. Knowing the man you are we feel sure
that you will put the interests of the fighting man high on your
list and will reverse the decision to close Military Hospitals.
Cost should never be an issue as such brave
men should have the thanks of a nation the fifth
richest in the world and the needs
of our wounded to be treated in a Military Hospital
should be the least we can do for those who offer
their lives for their country as an ongoing
sacrifice.
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MoD -
obtains almost half the COST of the
Iraq and Afghanistan
War
selling Army land -
barracks-hospitals.
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1 soldier killed in
Afghanistan -July
12-2007
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Iraq
Commission
'Fiddling
while British Troops Burn'
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PART TIME TA SOLDIERS
lacking training and basic fitness-used as
CANNON
FODDER
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Our troops are asked
to fight for a lost cause
in order to save the face
of
George Bush
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IRAQ NOT WORTH THE LIFE OF
ANOTHER BRITISH SOLDIER
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A DUTY TO OUR
MEN
Daily Mail
COMMENT
[Tuesday, July 3, 2007]
TONY BLAIR committed British troops
to more wars than any Prime Minister since the
Second World War -from
Kosovo
and Sierra Leone to Afghanistan and
Iraq.
In each theatre, our overstretched
serviceman rose to every new and he made of them
with exemplary courage.
AND HOW DID MR BLAIR
REPAY THEM?
For ten years, he put soldiers' lives
at risk for want of basic equipment, allowed the
wounded to endure third-class treatment on general
wards and neglected servicemen's wives and children
in sub-standard housing.
MEANWHILE
Our troops' workloads grew heavier,
their overseas deployments more frequent and their
opportunities to see their families increasingly
rare.
NO WONDER SO MANY HAVE
HAD ENOUGH
The all-party Public Accounts
Committee says the number of personnel leaving some
sections of the
ARMED FORCES
EARLY
HAS
SOARED
-to a ten-year peak , leaving acute
shortages of manpower.
And as more servicemen leave, of
course the pressure on those remain.
In the damning words of committee
chairman Edward Leigh:
'The MoD has been relying for too
long on the goodwill and courageous spirit of our
servicemen and women to compensate for the
increasing shortages of personnel.'
The new Prime Minister cannot allow
this national disgrace to continue.
[Loosen the
purse-strings and let the mistakes of the past be
rectified without delay .For once show us that you
know how to treat no doubt the bravest and most
loyal fighting service in the world which has not
deserved the barbarous treatment of neglect of vital
equipment-accommodation
and
military
medical care which must be
extended for as long as needed.]
[Each
underlined word has a separate bulletin]
Whatever he decides about our
deployment in Iraq
and Afghanistan
Gordon Brown must ensure that our troops have the
man-power, equipment and back-up they so desperately
NEED.
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Altered-Bolding & Underlining Used-Comments in
Brackets]
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Because of the reluctance of the
Government to immediately withdraw our troops from
Iraq our brave soldiers are having to give their
lives to a cause which has been proved to be false
and indeed a great LIE.
Why should one more soldier have to
die in order to allow politicians to find a way to
extricate an exit which suits their purpose.
Because of the nature of the illegal
war for which one day Tony Blair must surely face a
trial it is inconceivable that the present state of
affairs as to accepting the deaths as the usual
consequence of war but instead it should be
acknowledged that ALL next-of -kin of British deaths
in this particular conflict should receive an
additional special compensation payment in keeping
with the illegal nature of the War.
Of course the next-of-kin could not
put a price on their loved ones and no amount
of compensation will take away the grief and
suffering in the years ahead.
BUT to be blunt almost everyone else
-the armament suppliers and general suppliers of the
material of war and reconstruction needs are making
their considerable profit which only increases as
the war continues and the conflict worsens.
As we have said before the Government
would have been much more cautious if they had to
pay a minimum of
£1million for each
loss of life
and corresponding compensation for
injury and long-term disability.
At present in our society the death
of a human being has become devalued as we
have seen on our streets particularly over the last
decade. This acceptance has de-sensitised life and
the deaths of our brave troops -with their sad
arrival in our country on an almost daily occurrence
has heightened that acceptance.
It is not enough for Government to
say that they are looking for a way-out and that we
cannot withdraw because of a greater tragedy
unfolding. But what is to say that even after
another 100 of our brave soldiers are laid to rest
over the next twelve months that there would still
be a blood-bath before the region is free of
strife-if ever over the next decade.
WE might all look
back in five year's time and see quite clearly that
a withdrawal in 2007 would have saved hundreds of
our soldiers lives and that the delay had only made
matters worse as it is for the Iraqi people as a
whole who have to decide the fate of their country
and not a implanted so-called democracy which has
only added to the fuel of faction in that country.
IRAQ NOT WORTH THE LIFE OF
ANOTHER BRITISH SOLDIER
29-06-07
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ROLL of HONOUR
of the
FIRST 100
in
IRAQ
-who have given their lives for their
country
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A VERY
HONEST GENERAL
by
Sarah Sands
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IN HIS FIRST
INTERVIEW
THE NEW HEAD OF
THE ARMY
Breaks ranks to
talk with
Astonishing
candour
About why we
should
At the moral
vacuum
THAT ALLOWS
RADICAL ISLAM
TO FLOURISH IN
BRITAIN
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