Posts Tagged ‘war’
Posted by michael on December 15, 2009
I despair at some of the actions of this government!
They have announced new helicopters for Afghanistan, which of course is good. But they won’t be available until 2013!!!
I thought that by then our soldiers had pulled out leaving the ‘well trained’ Afghan soldiers to protect themselves from the Taliban!!
So the helicopters won’t be available until AFTER our soldiers come home – OR does brown know that they are going to be there for many years yet!
Has brown now admitted that when he repeatedly and consistently said that our soldiers had enough equipment and helicopters (remember the NATO troops were sharing helicopters) that he was WRONG!
Yet now brown and his ministers are claiming credit for spending money on ‘supporting’ our troops. It just seems so cynical. Perhaps there is an election due soon!
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Posted by michael on December 13, 2009
It seems that Blair was so keen to make himself important that he was prepared to take the UK to war in Iraq at any cost!
This cost was of course borne by other people – the taxpayers, the military, their family members and don’t forget the many thousands of innocent Iraqis who were killed or seriously injured.
Blair cannot justify this war by saying that he needed to free the Iraqis from savage leaders!! Why the Iraqis?
There are many nations with leaders who abuse and subjugate their people, some far worse than Saddam!
Was Blair really going to invade all these countries as well?
Or was it really down to oil and being a puppet of the USA?
I believe that Blair should be charged with war crimes. How many people and families has his actions harmed.
Killing people for political reasons should have consequences!
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Posted by michael on November 22, 2009
I do not understand how Blair the warmonger could ever have expected to have been the EU president. He had too much baggage as a result of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blair didn’t join in with the Americans to attack Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein and his thug sons!! If that was justifiable then think how many other countries we would need to invade for the same reason!
As far as I am concerned Blair set out to con the British public by scaring them over the weapons of mass destruction! The most cynical step was putting tanks on the streets and at the airports!
We did not have a terrorist problem until Blair and Bush went to war against Iraq. This was a significant point in the history of the world and there are many consequences, mostly bad, that have stemmed directly from the actions of Blair and Bush.
History will not see these two leaders in a positive light.
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Posted by michael on November 13, 2009
It would seem obvious from the latest comments from Brown that he has finally understood that this war in the Middle East is wrong, was wrong from day one, that we cannot win and more and more of our soldiers will be killed or injured.
I was taken in by Blair (at first) when he claimed that we had to attack Iraq or they would attack us.
It wasn’t the quality of his argument, it was that it simply did not occur to me that the prime minister of this country would lie to us about the potential threat by another country!
Fortunately I realised quite quickly that everything blair was saying was rubbish and I have not believed a word he has said since!
But Brown has kept us in this war, even subsequently attacking Afghanistan. He has failed to justify the war, giving differing reasons why we need to be in Afghanistan.
Now Brown appears to have changed his mind and is working on exit strategies (which can be seen as meaning that the reasons we are at war were not that important after all!).
So what has changed to mean that Brown is now not firmly sticking to his stated position that this war is important to the UK?
I would suggest that nothing has changed. Except that we have an election coming up soon and Brown knows that he is not popular!
All that money wasted in these wars, let alone the lives lost and the lives blighted by injuries. We have an election coming up and Gordon Brown is changing his priorities!
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Posted by michael on November 6, 2009
It seems to me that Brown is very, very confused about the reasons why the war in Afghanistan is going on.
He has said today:
‘we cannot, must not and will not walk away as long as Al-Qaeda continues to plot attacks on Britain from the region’
What region is this???
Does he mean Afghanistan? OR perhaps he means Iraq? or Pakistan? I am not aware of any group in Afghanistan plotting attacks on the UK.
Even if there were, there are Islamic extremists in many other countries of the world who may be plotting to attack the UK. ARE WE NOW GOING TO WAR AGAINST THEM!!
Pakistan should be a prime target for the UK IF Brown is concerned about Al-Qaeda plotting attacks on Britain!!
Brown has introduced other reasons for our involvement in the war in Afghanistan. This includes allowing women to be educated and other aspects of the way women are treated. So is the UK now going to attack all countries which treat women like this? Some sort of crusade throughout the world against Islam perhaps?
The whole political thinking and strategy of this government is a complete mess! Just like the way that they run the UK! So no surprise there!
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Posted by michael on October 28, 2009
I fail to understand how Blair the Warmonger would even be considered as the EU president!!
All the damage throughout Europe with terrorist attacks and the continual 24×7 risk of further bombings are the result of the UK, headed by Blair and Brown, invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blair has caused so much trouble throughout Europe with his apparent natural instinct to invade other countries. People seem to forget that in a fairly short time the UK was involved in THREE wars under Blair as prime minister.
Having Blair as the EU president is not a signal to the rest of the world that the EU is a potential threat to them!
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Posted by michael on September 8, 2009
The reason why we are under a continual threat of being bombed and having passenger jets blown up is that Blair, Brown and Bush went to war against Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gordon Brown is claiming that our troops are fighting in Afghanistan in order to stop the threat of terrorism in the UK.
He is right! But his actions in the first place are the reason why we now have to deal with this threat against us. But the consequences of going to war against any country is that the people of that country will fight back!
What does Gordon Brown think that victory in the war in Afghanistan means. I don’t remember ever hearing him define what he thinks that beating the taliban actually means.
I have heard Brown saying that his intention is to train the Afghan government troops to carry on the war against the taliban themselves. But this is not going to stop the attacks against the UK and UK interests around the world. It simply gets our soldiers out of Afghanistan.
Getting peace for the UK and the USA means that all extremists, mostly Islamic, are prepared to stop bombing us at home and abroad.
It is possible that there is no way of getting peace in the war against terrorism. Brown, Blair and Bush have opened Pandora’s box. We cannot put the lid back on.
I think that the actions of these three leaders have cursed the world for a very long time. They will not go down in history in any other terms!
(In Greek mythology, Pandora’s box is the large jar carried by Pandora that unleashed many evils on mankind – ills, toils and sickness – and hope. (source: Wikipedia)
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Posted by michael on September 4, 2009
If I went to a neighbour’s house and beat up one of the kids, then can I really justify getting a group of my friends together and going back to the house and beating up everybody there – just to stop them from coming after me?
Gordon Brown and Tony Blair are the reason why we are now under continuous threat of attack!
Gordon Brown cannot justify our attacks on Afghanistan, but he is desperate to avoid getting the blame he deserves from our invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Posted by michael on August 29, 2009
Our revered prime minister has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan today.
What he has had to say is not that surprising for him, but it really shows how good he is in catching the mood of the people!
Brown said that getting another 50,000 Afghan troops trained by the end of the year would enable them to “take more responsibility for their own affairs”. I don’t know how many they have trained or are in the process of training, but to get that many Afghan soldiers trained in four months would seem to need many more of our soldiers to train them!
I am glad that Brown has announced that new equipment, e.g. more armoured vehicles, will be made available. Two questions:
- When will they be available?
- How armoured are these vehicles?
If they are more heavily armoured than the vehicles currently in use by our soldiers then it will be an admission that the current vehicles do not have sufficient armour!
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Posted by michael on August 19, 2009
One of the major reasons that the war in Afghanistan is going so badly is that Gordon Brown and New Labour are doing it ‘on the cheap’. They have clearly not provided the appropriate safety equipment to our troops. Brown has said a number of times ‘they have enough helicopters’ and then adds ‘we are sending more’. But if they have enough helicopters then they don’t need any more, it would be a waste of money sending more! So do the troops have enough helicopters or don’t they??
Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1207519/Generals-Bungling-Bob-replaced.html#comments#ixzz0OdKyyNOW
Have our soldiers in Afghanistan properly equipped? The debate continues with Labour apparantly, according the Mail, trying to discredit the Army Geneneral Sir Richard Dannalt.
There would seem to be an argument amongst at least some of the military chiefs and the government regarding the levels of equipment supplied to our troops in Afghanistan.
Brown has said a number of times ‘they have enough helicopters’ and I have heard him then adding ‘we are sending more‘.
But if they have enough helicopters then they don’t need any more, it would be a waste of money sending more!
So do the troops have enough helicopters or don’t they?? The answer seems to depend upon whom one asks!
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