Brits to send 4000 more troops to Afghanistan.

[Mr Crowley]

The Brits are proposing a deployment of 4000 additional troops to Afghanistan to add to the 8000 that they already have there.
Last year they lost 51 personnel killed and so far this year they have had significant losses. The silence from the British people on this is deafening. With additonal troops deployed and the increased exposure that this will entail, it is reasonable to assume that British losses will increase.
The Brits have stated that their plans are contingent on additional troop deployments from other NATO nations.
However, Friday, NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer warned that European nations might be reluctant to contribute more troops in Afghanistan following a decision by president Hamid Karzai to adopt a law criticised by the UN for curtailing women's rights.

Scheffer told the BBC: "How can I defend this, and how can the British defend this, when our boys and girls are dying there in defence of universal values, and here is a law that fundamentally violates human rights?"

[Trans-Siberian]

Hopefully its the four thousand odd they still have in occupied Ireland. Though I would'nt wish that on the people of Afghanastan.
However, if things kicked off on a more sustained and professional way in the six counties of Northern Ireland then they would be really stretched. The Brithish armed forces are already at breaking point ( paul meyer told me on the hush hush ) so a proper campaign against them now would be most inconvienent!

They just dont have the numbers after the boom. Nobody wanted to join when they had other options.

[Mr Crowley]

Hopefully its the four thousand odd they still have in occupied Ireland. Though I would'nt wish that on the people of Afghanastan.
However, if things kicked off on a more sustained and professional way in the six counties of Northern Ireland then they would be really stretched. The Brithish armed forces are already at breaking point ( paul meyer told me on the hush hush ) so a proper campaign against them now would be most inconvienent!

They just dont have the numbers after the boom. Nobody wanted to join when they had other options.

While I agree with your sentiment in regard to ridding Ireland of British occupation and recognise the old adage that 'Britain's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity', I don't envisage the possibility of any sustained or 'proper' campaign.
The public support does not exist and you can be sure that any development of support will be thwarted by infiltration and misdirection. Republican militants have committed atrocities through incompotence and infiltration in the past and there is no logical reason to believe that the same will not happen again.
The time of easily countered armed, elites has passed. Organising the people to stand up for themselves would present Britain with a difficulty that she would not easily counter.

[Trans-Siberian]

While I agree with your sentiment in regard to ridding Ireland of British occupation and recognise the old adage that 'Britain's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity', I don't envisage the possibility of any sustained or 'proper' campaign.
The public support does not exist and you can be sure that any development of support will be thwarted by infiltration and misdirection. Republican militants have committed atrocities through incompotence and infiltration in the past and there is no logical reason to believe that the same will not happen again.
The time of easily countered armed, elites has passed. Organising the people to stand up for themselves would present Britain with a difficulty that she would not easily counter.

I not advocating another republican lead armed campaign against the British army. Im angry that they are still there but understand there is more than one way to skin a cat.

But in recent years, there has not been the social solidarity that is needed between people who genuinely want to see the end to British rule on the island of Ireland.

As Joe Hill said, 'dont mourn, organise'.

[Rocky]

Well done to the British. More troops are needed in Afganistan and the US can't do it all by themselves, so well done to the British for putting themsevlevs forward. I'd love to say this will lead to the rest of Europe doing the same but sadly it will not.

[Mr Crowley]

Well done to the British. More troops are needed in Afganistan and the US can't do it all by themselves, so well done to the British for putting themsevlevs forward. I'd love to say this will lead to the rest of Europe doing the same but sadly it will not.

Yes, well done to the British for helping to prop up a coalition of drug baron, war criminals and human rights abusers in Afghanistan. Well done to the British for facilitating the bumper opium harvests in Afghanistan that exceed global demand. The bulk of it produced on their watch in Helmand province. Well done to the British for bringing home 51 military coffins last year. The families of the expendable will no doubt be bouyed by your sentiment.

[Partizan]

Well done to the British. More troops are needed in Afganistan and the US can't do it all by themselves, so well done to the British for putting themsevlevs forward. I'd love to say this will lead to the rest of Europe doing the same but sadly it will not.

You wouldnt have a portrait of John Redmond and Her Majesty over the fireplace would you?

[st333ve]

It was expected that the British would bend over further to please the yanks as they were the only fools to follow them into the Iraq bloodbath.

[He3]

Well done to the British. More troops are needed in Afganistan and the US can't do it all by themselves, so well done to the British for putting themselevs forward. I'd love to say this will lead to the rest of Europe doing the same but sadly it will not.

IRELAND should abandon neutrality and play its part in European Union security and defence and help design its future development, Fine Gael TD Billy Timmins told the Fine Gael Ardfheis.

“For many years Ireland has wrapped itself in the comfort blanket of neutrality. It became a byword for ambiguity in our international relations policy,” Mr Timmins said. Declaring that it is now “time to seriously revisit the issue”, he said. “Ireland has never, in any event, been neutral in internationally-recognised terms, since Irish attitudes were identified by opposition to Britain.

Ireland should join in security and defence of EU, says Timmins - The Irish Times - Sat, Apr 04, 2009

[st333ve]

Inside the head of a war monger.



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