Some Home Truths...

Evening,

And quite a dark evening indeed for the country, with news filtering in over the airwaves that a further five British Servicemen have been killed in the on-going conflict in Afghanistan, taking the death-toll over the number that have been killed in the Iraq war.

Some 184 soldiers have now died since the conflict begun in the aftermath of 9/11. The idea of the invasion of Afghanistan was to rid the country of the despotic Taliban and to eventually cause the downfall of Al Qaeda (remember them?). Both objectives to be brutal are as far away as being completed now than they ever were, contrary to what the mainstream media would like you to believe.

Obviously, it is becoming clearer as time moves on that the troops out there are being kitted out quite shoddily by our fabled government, something that is showing to be the case as some of the deaths are being caused because of the equipment that they are being forced to use on their patrols are not capable to protect troops from improvised explosions which happen on the roadside. Some soldiers are being forced to buy their own gear for warfare, because the kit that they get given is just not suitable.

The former head of the armed forces, General Lord Guthrie has said that this is the case - that troops are dying because the military is short of money.

It is all well and good offering the country's services to the American government - but if you're not going to give the soldiers that do your dirty work, the tools that they need to do your dirty work - then it will end with coffins coming back to this country - and a ever growing anger towards our beloved government at the way that they have mistreated the military. I heard a comment from a relative of one of the fallen soldiers which was rather scathing, saying that she wanted the defence secretary 'shot' and sacked immediately. Considering that Bob Ainsworth has only been in the job for barely a month, that seems a bit rash, but considering their loss, it is quite understandable.

Brown underestimated the support in the country for the Gurkhas when he tried to deny them equal rights as their British counterparts, I do hope for his sake he doesn't do the same for the military in general.

Otherwise, he really is delusional...

Night, Night

Rob

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