Brit soldiers now hawking their Iraq campaign medals on eBay.

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The Telegraph
Soldiers sell Iraq medals through eBay
Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 01/01/2006)

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Many of the troops auctioning medals are hoping to cash in on their rarity value. Although more than 90,000 have been issued, few have previously found their way on to the collectors' market.

The disclosure that sales are taking place while British troops are still under fire in the region has echoes of the Vietnam conflict when veterans threw away their decorations in protest.

One officer who served in the Iraq war told the Sunday Telegraph that many soldiers now believed they were sent to Iraq on a "false premise".

He said that while he was proud to have served in the war, he knew of soldiers who believed they had been sent to "fight and die" in an illegal war.

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Illustrates the typical government thinking. We'll send the poor sods off to risk death, getting extremities blown off and being showered in depleted uranium dust with a good chance they'll get a crippling disease and/or children with birth defects as a result and all for phony, made up reasons, but we'll just hand out a few gongs to pin on their uniforms and that should keep them happy. Glad to see that at least some of the British vets are clued in to what has gone down. Seems like they are telling the brass, you can take your medals and stick 'em where the sun don't shine.

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1. another break in the wall