Irish Recruitment to British Army doubles

[PatMcL]

It is pitiable that these people choose to buy into the fiction that the Britsh are some sort of power on the world stage rather than just the ass wipe of the Pentagon.

They will go to Afghanistan and will end up like the fodder of the sink estates of England, five of whom departed this world only last week. It is unknown if the boardrooms at Shell and BP or even Exxon held a minutes silence for these hapless dupes as they were probably too busy counting up the extra revenue from the latest increase in oil prices.
While the board members of these companies send their own children to the finest schools and meet their every whim, the hapless dupes line up like sitting ducks for the Taleban or bored American pilots.

Let them go, if they cannot see the despicable nature of their own actions then they will fully deserve whatever awaits them. Their loved ones to carry the grief and shame for the rest of their own lives.

[Kalif]

It is pitiable that these people choose to buy into the fiction that the Britsh are some sort of power on the world stage rather than just the ass wipe of the Pentagon.

They will go to Afghanistan and will end up like the fodder of the sink estates of England, five of whom departed this world only last week. It is unknown if the boardrooms at Shell and BP or even Exxon held a minutes silence for these hapless dupes as they were probably too busy counting up the extra revenue from the latest increase in oil prices.
While the board members of these companies send their own children to the finest schools and meet their every whim, the hapless dupes line up like sitting ducks for the Taleban or bored American pilots.

Let them go, if they cannot see the despicable nature of their own actions then they will fully deserve whatever awaits them. Their loved ones to carry the grief and shame for the rest of their own lives.

Sounds like jealousy Pat, knowing the fact your allegiance is to a to a sanctimonious do nothing country and your life wasted in some boring nowhere town.



http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk ... 3661196.jp

Building a new infrastructure for the Afghan people

SOLDIERS from Scarborough and the North of England involved in rebuilding Afghanistan's infrastructure have been praised by an officer from the Royal Engineers.
Troops from the engineering regiment are currently attached to 2nd battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) as part of its Operational Mentoring Liaison Teams (OMLT) tour of duty.

Lt Jeff Fowler said troops from the North were very hard working and gave rebuilding work in Gereshk, in the Helmand province as a prime example. After they left the town the bazaar had expanded threefold which had the effect of improving the area's economy.

The rebuilding work also uses local tradesmen which provided an Afghan solution to the task in hand. Lt Fowler said: "I think it's important because they have a sense of pride, they've done it themselves, and by us employing them to do it they have money for themselves."

The building work also includes irrigation projects and the construction of schools in places such as Gereshk and Sangin. He said: "It takes time and local security has to be stabilised in the area so the patrols can go out. "Irrigation projects are big out there and to try to build a school out there is a big thing because there hasn't been any for a long time."


http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2001/12 ... cohen.aspx

Rebuilding Afghanistan will involve many tasks: repairing the agricultural infrastructure, refugee resettlement, constructing an entirely new educational system and repairing the damaged physical infrastructure. It also means an extraordinary international effort to feed a long-malnourished population and encouraging as many of the overseas Afghans as possible to return to their homeland. A revived Afghanistan will also need a civilian bureaucracy and a new political order, a process that took a giant step forward at Bonn. This political order will have to reflect particular Afghan conditions and sensibilities, but it must be "modern" in the sense that it represents Afghan interests to the rest of the world while undertaking the tasks outlined above.

However, as the Bonn Agreement noted, an urgent priority of the new Afghan government will be to establish a comprehensive security apparatus.

[Conor the Bold]

no doubt the west brits are sending their sons and daughters to afghanistan and iraq to die gloriously for the mother country
ya, right
rule britannia :P

halliburton will be forever greatful for their shareprices....i mean sacrifices.

Id presume you are equally consider the 160,000 or so Southern Irishmen who fought against Nazism? Though of course your sort favoured the Nazi's to the British.

These men and women are the reason you have freedom of speech on this site today.

Actually, it isn't really. We owe the USSR for our freedom against the Nazis and perhaps the US for our freedom from the USSR.

[size=7]Kalif, Louis Bernard, Longfordian[/size]
Are you squaddies or former squaddies? Are you just keyboard warriors fantasising about playing soldiers or wish you were the real thing?
Are you Irish or just English trolls?

Actually the country with the most importance in the fight against the Nazi's was the US. No Perhaps about it. The USSR paid a huge blood debt to fight the Nazi's, but had the US not been in the war then it is very unlikely that the USSR would have been able to turn back the Nazis from the gates of Moscow & Stalingrad.

[Zyklon B]

Mary Malone’s 28-year-old son, Lance Corporal Ian Malone, was shot dead by a sniper near the southern Iraqi town of Basra on April 6, 2003.

Good.

[Conor the Bold]

Ever the rational argument.

[Zyklon B]

[quote=Conor the Bold]

no doubt the west brits are sending their sons and daughters to afghanistan and iraq to die gloriously for the mother country
ya, right
rule britannia :P

halliburton will be forever greatful for their shareprices....i mean sacrifices.

Id presume you are equally consider the 160,000 or so Southern Irishmen who fought against Nazism? Though of course your sort favoured the Nazi's to the British.

These men and women are the reason you have freedom of speech on this site today.

Actually, it isn't really. We owe the USSR for our freedom against the Nazis and perhaps the US for our freedom from the USSR.

[size=7]Kalif, Louis Bernard, Longfordian[/size]
Are you squaddies or former squaddies? Are you just keyboard warriors fantasising about playing soldiers or wish you were the real thing?
Are you Irish or just English trolls?

Actually the country with the most importance in the fight against the Nazi's was the US. No Perhaps about it. The USSR paid a huge blood debt to fight the Nazi's, but had the US not been in the war then it is very unlikely that the USSR would have been able to turn back the Nazis from the gates of Moscow & Stalingrad.[/quote:1zguzmfu]
No, I think most historians agree that without the US and Allies the USSR would've eventually wiped out the Nazis. The Germans invested by far most of their resources in the East, more than half of their men. It's true that the US supplied the USSR with raw materials and aid, but still I think it's generally accepted that the USSR's ability to mass produce its sturdy but shoddy T-34 (as opposed to the Germans' careful, time-consuming construction of their Tiger Tanks) won them the war. The Soviet juggernaut was unstoppable and what we owe (mostly the Americans) is meeting the Soviets half way, in Germany. Otherwise we would all be speaking Russian now.

[louis bernard]

Mary Malone’s 28-year-old son, Lance Corporal Ian Malone, was shot dead by a sniper near the southern Iraqi town of Basra on April 6, 2003.

Good.

You are a cowardly sad excuse for a human being, more to be pitied than reviled.

[Fir Bolg]

Actually the country with the most importance in the fight against the Nazi's was the US. No Perhaps about it. The USSR paid a huge blood debt to fight the Nazi's, but had the US not been in the war then it is very unlikely that the USSR would have been able to turn back the Nazis from the gates of Moscow & Stalingrad.

Quite wide of the mark. You need to read up on WW2 history.
Suggested reading: Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-45 by Evan Mawdsley
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
The RUSSO-GERMAN War, 1941-45. by Albert. Seaton
Both Berlin and Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor
These would give you a good start and insight into who really won the war.

The really significant part played by the US was the introduction of the lend lease program which helped get the Red army motorised.

[Dillinger]

Mary Malone’s 28-year-old son, Lance Corporal Ian Malone, was shot dead by a sniper near the southern Iraqi town of Basra on April 6, 2003.

Good.

I bet you would not have the balls to say that to her face. You complete waste of space.

[louis bernard]

[quote=Fir Bolg]

Actually the country with the most importance in the fight against the Nazi's was the US. No Perhaps about it. The USSR paid a huge blood debt to fight the Nazi's, but had the US not been in the war then it is very unlikely that the USSR would have been able to turn back the Nazis from the gates of Moscow & Stalingrad.

Quite wide of the mark. You need to read up on WW2 history.
Suggested reading: Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-45 by Evan Mawdsley
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
The RUSSO-GERMAN War, 1941-45. by Albert. Seaton
Both Berlin and Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor
These would give you a good start and insight into who really won the war.

The really significant part played by the US was the introduction of the lend lease program which helped get the Red army motorised.[/quote:g6y3eh6z]

Try and get a copy of Basil Liddell Hart’s “History of the Second World War” it’s as about as close to the definitive work as you will get.