Are our chaps going to "pay the blood price" to keep Bush in power?

[Guy_Montag]

It's a bit late to bring this up - I'm nothing if I'm not on the ball.

But I guess you all heard the report from by the Sunday Telegraph (of all papers) that the Black Watch are being shipped up to Baghdad to take some casualties - so Kerry can no longer say "90% of the casualties are American".

On edit:

" Gen Walker, the most senior officer in the Armed Forces, is said to be concerned that the Army should not be "bounced" into sending troops into Baghdad simply because the Americans have sustained more casualties than the British.

A Ministry of Defence official said that the Chief of the Defence Staff and other senior officers were worried that deploying the Black Watch, which is the divisional reserve for southern Iraq, to Baghdad would leave British troops vulnerable to another uprising by insurgents.

A senior Army officer said: "There is a certain amount of concern that this is a politically driven military operation and that does not rest easily with soldiers.

"Soldiers accept that they have to undertake dangerous operations in war, they accept that they might be killed or injured, but it is completely unacceptable if they are being sent to Baghdad to help George Bush win the next election."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/17/ntroop17.xml

[TaleWgnDg]

1. I almost puked . . . geezuz . . .

. . .

[wryter2000]

2. I'm so sorry we dragged you guys into this

:cry:

[Guy_Montag]

3. Not your fault.

If Blair hadn't wanted this it wouldn't have happened. Every death of a British soldier lies at his door & his alone.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Almost certainly they are

the only people who could stop it now are the army themselves, it seems. The government says this is operational decision, thet would never be subject to a Commmons vote - and I think they are right on that.

But what that does also mean is that Blair is fully part of the decision to attack Falluja, however viciously it is done. I'd also say that if we have a 'duty as an ally', then we were also an ally in the horrors of Abu Ghraib. Food for thought for the International Criminal Court.

[non sociopath skin]

5. Now come on, you guys ...

.. if our President asks the Republican Governor of the State Of Airstrip 1 to send in a little cannon fodder to help him win the election, it's his CHRISTIAN DUTY to help him, now, ain't it?

Praise the Lord! Praise Cheeses!

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

9. Just about describes it!

Too bad that people are dying for their holy imperialist love-affair!

[Briar]

6. Hoon's just announced they're going

Bush will be so pleased.

[DragonWolf]

7. Yeah...

... esp as this'll leave him off the hook. I, like many others, have a strong suspicion that this "request" has to do with the election coming up in just over 10 days.

[Entrayl]

8. Its f*cking bullsh*t

Its totaly f*cking bullsh*t.

However, when your stuck in a toilet of hell, no matter what you do is going to stink. We should do this, coz I guess this is what 'allies' are ment to do. But we should pretend not to do it until after the American elections.

[sweetheart]

10. And a scots regiment at that

I guess its british tradition to send in the scots as cannon fodder,
but geesh, its the 21st century.

Godspeed to those boys, return home to bonnie scotland in one peice.

[D-Notice]

11. Wonder what Gordon Brown's view is?