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 Troops Out Of Afghanistan!
Petition, Market Street, 1pm. Saturday, 27th June
During a visit to British troops stationed in Afghanistan last month Gordon Brown launched the Armed Forces Day flag campaign.
British Troops in Iraq have just been withdrawn after a seven year long futile and bloody war - only to be sent on to Afghanistan to fight a war even British generals say is unwinnable. Afghanistan is not called the 'graveyard of empires' for nothing.
According to Defence secretary Des Browne, "our troops are in Afghanistan to help the Afghans rebuild their country'. But Britain has sent only combat troops, and more Afghans are now supporting the Taliban who control most of the country. Five British soldiers have been killed in there in the last three weeks. The Afghan war is turning into a disaster, and spreading to Pakistan.
No wonder many soldiers and their families ask why they have been sent to fight the war in Afghanistan?
History shows that blind support for US foreign policy informs the Labour Government's approach to war. For Blair it was the Iraq war, for Brown it is Afghanistan. But Brown's war is opposed by 68% of people in Britain who believe the British troops should be brought back.
We say the best support we could give our troops in Afghanistan is to bring them home safely as soon as possible. |
Why should our soldiers be fightin people who prefer to live in the stone age? Because politicians need to have a war going on somwhere to support the arms industry which many of them have shares in! There is enough violence at home without promoting violence overseas.
My brother served in Afghanistan in the Royal Marines, and we were all immensely proud of him and his friends who he had trained sweat, bled and cried with. He saw a number of good friends die in action out there, more who were visciously mutilated by IED's and other enemy activity. To rub salt in the wounds when he returned home he ahd to attend a court hearing where the MoD was trying to get out of paying life insurance to a 18 year old soldiers families stating he had bought his own body armour and that was why he died! We no longer have any direction in Afghanistan. My blood boils when i hear that fat, worthless scotsman say 'my commitment to afghanistan is unwavering'. Well that's all well and good gormless brown but its not 'your' commitment is it. Are your sons fighting in that hell hole? Do you intend to don the DP and helmet and cart your large arse out there? Of course not, it's just as crass as Blair's 'we are willing to pay the price in blood' comment. 'I woul be proud to see my sons fight in our military' he went on to say. Well do it then, sign them up. How many MP's have been to a soldier's funeral? Or attended the re-patriations at RAF Lyneham? The're too busy frauding the tax-payer over expenses. Pull them out! Yes, it's an absolute insult to the 204 dead, you might as well gob in their families faces. But that's a criticism for the MPs to answer, and they should have to! But to say we must push on in spite of the Taliban's growing potency is blindly stupid and is costing lives. We will have none of our talented, brave servicemen left at this rate. I am not a leftie, nowhere near a socialist. I am pretty far on the right spectrum of the political landscape, but ithink left, right and centre are united in their love and support of our brave guys out there and can't wait to welcome them all home with open arms, pats on the back and cold pints of good ol' english ale!