7th soldier in 7 days...

[max_tranmere]

7 of our guys have died in Afghanistan in the last week. Doesn't this make you angry? It does me. Tony Blair should be forced to go and meet the families of every soldier who dies in Afghanistan or Iraq, right up until the last soldier comes home when the campagin's end. Tony Blair would find it difficult to find the time though as he is too busy lining his pockets.

[steve56]

His old womans as bad saw her on the one show shes so false

[Arginald Valleywater]

Double edged sword here. Yes it is a tragedy but none of these boys were forced to join up. They are paid a wage to fight, as a lorry driver is to haul freight. Don't join the armed forces if you want an easy life.

[andy at handiwork]

I'll bet her punctuation is spot on though.

[mrmcfister]

Yes a fucking disgrace,yet another brave lad coming home in a body bag and for what? Cunt head Ainsworth bleats on "for Britain to be secure, Afghanistan needs to be made secure". What a lying twat. I hate his ilk,8 years on and our lads still dont have the right armoured vehicles.Unfortunately we tolerate a drip drip of death and its only when the numbers go up that our corrupt and talentless politicians need to make their puerile pontifications.This senseless loss of life is a disgrace.Daily, good families are being devastated over a fucking arid shit hole and for what?

[andy at handiwork]

Indeed. As our 4th foray in the past 200 years(rightly or wrongly) into the affairs of that benighted country has been going on for some 8 years, its not as though those who have joined up since it started this time were unaware of the dangers inherent in going. It might though have been helpful of our government to remind us of what befell our forces on two of the occasions in the 19th century we mixed it with the locals. I'll give you a clue. We decided it wasn't worth the candle.

[jj]

Indeed; but, as always, they are still lions led by donkeys.

[jj]

Afghanistan, the graveyard of armies.
Russian, Brits, Greeks, Indians, Pakistanis.... all have failed.

The territory's too difficult; the supply-lines are overlong; and the
tribal factions make it impossible to exert effective control. In a way
I can understand the idealism behind the action but more forethought
about the practicalities [and, as you said, the odd history-lesson]
should have been applied.

[jj]

If my experience of lawyers is anythuig to go by, I doubt she can
utter any coherent English sentence... "the party of the third part,
hereinunder referred to as the plaintiff", etc. : -))

[andy at handiwork]

For what? Though it is a somewhat forlorn hope, it might result in the eradication of the vile theocracy that the Taliban wishes to impose.