BBC The Fallen - British Wars Not Worth One Life

[Parnella]

"Three hundred British troops have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in seven years - a death toll film-maker Morgan Matthews addressed in a three-hour programme. What drove him to make such a harrowing documentary? "

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Honouring 'The Fallen'

Watching this programme last night, very sad to see the children being sent to Afghanistan and Iraq to murder other children, and never return.

Almost unanimously, their relatives were sorry their children ever signed up to the British army.

One young dead soldier's father, a working class man as most would be, tattoed with "L-O-V-E and H-A-T-E" on his knuckles now spends all day down the local drinking with his track-suited wife gold medallion rings on every finger, desperate for this all to be a bad dream, but realising that it is not a dream as he says "I'm sorry for the day I ever signed those papers for my son to join the British army"

God bless the poor uneducated naive innocent families who had their sons sent to Ireland, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. to protect the financial and political interests of people they will never encounter other than perhaps on TV paying meaningless empty lip service to their dead children.

[shutuplaura]

Did I read that something like 40% of soldiers in the british army join before they are 18 and that someone aged 16 1/2 can join with parental permission? These are shocking statistics if true.

[Parnella]

"Three hundred British troops have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in seven years - a death toll film-maker Morgan Matthews addressed in a three-hour programme. What drove him to make such a harrowing documentary? "

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Honouring 'The Fallen'

Watching this programme last night, very sad to see the children being sent to Afghanistan and Iraq to murder other children, and never return.

Almost unanimously, their relatives were sorry their children ever signed up to the British army.

One young dead soldier's father, a working class man as most would be, tattoed with "L-O-V-E and H-A-T-E" on his knuckles now spends all day down the local drinking with his track-suited wife gold medallion rings on every finger, desperate for this all to be a bad dream, but realising that it is not a dream as he says "I'm sorry for the day I ever signed those papers for my son to join the British army"

God bless the poor uneducated naive innocent families who had their sons sent to Ireland, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. to protect the financial and political interests of people they will never encounter other than perhaps on TV paying meaningless empty lip service to their dead children.

Did I read that something like 40% of soldiers in the british army join before they are 18 and that someone aged 16 1/2 can join with parental permission? These are shocking statistics if true.

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Yes indeed, not old enough to drive, not old enough to vote, not privileged enough to go to college, but old enough and naive enough for the establishment to send them off as cannon fodder to places they know nothing about to fight for British and US corporate interests.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]But, at least their families have Poppy Day to look forward to, bloody pathetic people.[/SIZE][/FONT]

[pogon]

You've already told us.

[Aindriu]

Did I read that something like 40% of soldiers in the british army join before they are 18 and that someone aged 16 1/2 can join with parental permission? These are shocking statistics if true.

Yes they can but cannot serve in any combat zone until they are 18.

[Aindriu]

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Yes indeed, not old enough to drive, not old enough to vote, not privileged enough to go to college, but old enough and naive enough for the establishment to send them off as cannon fodder to places they know nothing about to fight for British and US corporate interests.[/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]But, at least their families have Poppy Day to look forward to, bloody pathetic people.[/SIZE][/FONT]

Not true at all. Soldiers under 18 years of age CANNOT serve in combat zones.

[pogon]

Parnella, I thought you liked the idea of youngsters being blown to smithereens, and were keen on posting images of these happy events onto the site to gloat over their deaths.

Has anything happened to change your mind?

[TimBuckII]

Not true at all. Soldiers under 18 years of age CANNOT serve in combat zones.

That would be hard to do when your country is at war with a few countries.

[Aindriu]

That would be hard to do when your country is at war with a few countries.

It is still perfectly true no matter what the rabid few on here think to the contrary.

[TimBuckII]

It is still perfectly true no matter what the rabid few on here think to the contrary.

Does that mean they can't serve in Britan?