Politely, from England: "Why are our boys still dying in Iraq?"

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As British casualty figure tops 100, grieving father asks...

http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=1334790

THE father of a Yorkshire soldier killed in the Iraq war has called for forces to "finally be allowed home" after it was revealed the conflict had claimed its 100th British casualty.
Peter Brierley's 28-year-old son, Shaun, died in a Land Rover crash while on patrol in Kuwait in March, 2003.

The Lance Corporal was one of the first to die - and his father had hoped he would be among the last.
Mr Brierley, 55, from Batley, said: "I honestly didn't think this day would ever come.

"It has been three years since this war finished but soldiers are still dying. They should be brought home now. My heart goes out to all the families who still have loved ones out there because they are just not safe."

Mr Brierley will be among hundreds expected to take part in peace vigils being staged across the country tonight. He will join anti-war campaigners in Bradford who will lay out shoes to commemorate the lives lost. The vigil will start at 5pm at the War Memorial in Prince's Way.

01 February 2006
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[neoblues]

1. Unfortunately for them, their leaders appear to be our lackeys.

Therefore, where our 'fearless one' sends in our military forces, the British, believing they are acting as good allies, send some of theirs. In this case, though, it seems they are rather acting as enablers for the biggest addict in the world. Addicted to oil (though he accuses the nation of that), addicted to war, addicted to conquest, addicted to getting his own way... well, he has to compensate in some way since he's forced his previous addiction (to booze) under wraps.

So there's Shrub, filled with all sorts of lusts he can't exercise... surrounded by neocons who want him to do lots of things that he basically agrees with... and nobody there to tell him how wrong he is... nothing to stop him... so then he resorts to what he imagines is prayer, and somehow the "message from G_d" he imagines he's receiving somehow echoes his own lusts as well as those of his neocon counselors... therefore... and now with the support of the great one in the sky... since no one can stop him... he does whatever he wants to.

If he "can" do it and he "wants" to do it... it's going to be done--by somebody who's job, unfortunate enough, it is to implement such edicts from on high... will have to do it. In this case, that's the poor soldier--who, but for not having been born to wealth and power, is on the lower end of the totem pole--the part that gets told what to do and how high to jump. First in line to die (well, actually, the first would be those on the receiving end of their actions).

It's the same story with our British allies. Only they're involved because their leaders have behaved as though they were Bush's servants. Sure, being allied with us has been beneficial to them as has engaging in friendly trade and other relations. Still, it's as though they've given up their sovereignty to Bush... 'Tis true that John Major is of a similar political ideology--conservative--and those who creep about in the dark need to stick together, but it's kind of surprising given the political costs he's suffered for it. Does Bush have some sort of dirt on the guy? Blackmail wouldn't be out of the question--if they had the ability. Who knows.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. It's over 8 years since John Major led the Conservatives

and I'm really not sure who you meant to be talking about. Tony Blair? David Cameron?

[neoblues]

3. You're Absolutely Right

I must be sleepy... (hic)