The Labour party should be held accountable for every soldiers life.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009 by English Rose
This Labour party should be made accountable for the deaths of each and every soldier that has died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They send our boys in so ill equipped that it's a tragedy waiting to happen. They have always been complete failures when it has come to our army. Instead having their own stupid agendas, our boys who risk their lives have been disregarded.
"She had tried to be strong, fought so hard to hold back her tears.
They send our boys in so ill equipped that it's a tragedy waiting to happen. They have always been complete failures when it has come to our army. Instead having their own stupid agendas, our boys who risk their lives have been disregarded.
"She had tried to be strong, fought so hard to hold back her tears.
But the pain of watching her heroic childhood sweetheart come home in a coffin took Sasha Buckley almost to the brink of collapse yesterday.
Clutching flowers, and with someone's steady hands on her shoulders, the 20-year-old joined thousands of others in tribute to Britain's fallen soldiers, home from Afghanistan.
Her friend, Rifleman Daniel Hume, 22, was one of eight repatriated after one of the darkest days in the eight-year war.
They died in a 24-hour period, the heaviest-loss of combat troops so far and the worst casualty tally since 14 died in a Nimrod explosion in Afghanistan in 2006.
An estimated throng of 4,000 lined the main street through Wootton Bassett, the Wiltshire market town which traditionally turns out to honour the dead after they are transported from RAF Lyneham nearby.
At first the eight coffins were met with silence, a still envelope of mourning and respect. But suddenly applause broke out, cutting through the solemnity of this deeply poignant farewell - and opening the floodgates of grief.
Weeping young men strode out into the cortege to place flowers and a football shirt on the hearse above one of the coffins.
Relatives buckled in tears as the procession passed by.
It was the most powerful tribute a nation could offer eight brave soldiers who gave their lives for their country while fighting someone else's war.
Yesterday it spoke louder than any words or hollow promises our politicians could muster to explain the growing slaughter of British troops in Afghanistan.
In the blazing sunlight of an otherwise miserable afternoon, thousands turned out in the little pocket of England that hosted the heroes' welcome home.
Wootton Bassett has come to symbolise the debt of gratitude owed by so many ordinary people to so many servicemen and women. Yesterday may have been its most emotional hour.
There were eight of them to remember. Eight hearses, eight coffins draped in Union flags. Eight proud lives and eight wasted futures.- News Source - MailOnline
We must demand this excuse of a government call a general election, we must make sure they are ousted from power.
HALF OF OUR HELICOPTERS ARE BROKEN
The list goes on the atrocity's go on the neglect goes on, how many more are to die before we force this government out.
Her friend, Rifleman Daniel Hume, 22, was one of eight repatriated after one of the darkest days in the eight-year war.
They died in a 24-hour period, the heaviest-loss of combat troops so far and the worst casualty tally since 14 died in a Nimrod explosion in Afghanistan in 2006.
An estimated throng of 4,000 lined the main street through Wootton Bassett, the Wiltshire market town which traditionally turns out to honour the dead after they are transported from RAF Lyneham nearby.
At first the eight coffins were met with silence, a still envelope of mourning and respect. But suddenly applause broke out, cutting through the solemnity of this deeply poignant farewell - and opening the floodgates of grief.
Weeping young men strode out into the cortege to place flowers and a football shirt on the hearse above one of the coffins.
Relatives buckled in tears as the procession passed by.
It was the most powerful tribute a nation could offer eight brave soldiers who gave their lives for their country while fighting someone else's war.
Yesterday it spoke louder than any words or hollow promises our politicians could muster to explain the growing slaughter of British troops in Afghanistan.
In the blazing sunlight of an otherwise miserable afternoon, thousands turned out in the little pocket of England that hosted the heroes' welcome home.
Wootton Bassett has come to symbolise the debt of gratitude owed by so many ordinary people to so many servicemen and women. Yesterday may have been its most emotional hour.
There were eight of them to remember. Eight hearses, eight coffins draped in Union flags. Eight proud lives and eight wasted futures.- News Source - MailOnline
We must demand this excuse of a government call a general election, we must make sure they are ousted from power.
HALF OF OUR HELICOPTERS ARE BROKEN
The list goes on the atrocity's go on the neglect goes on, how many more are to die before we force this government out.
They were released as Gordon Brown appeared to admit that Britain did not have enough troops in Afghanistan to hold territory and towns taken from the Taliban at great cost in casualties.
The Prime Minister said he had “urged” Afghanistan’s President Karzai to send more troops to Hel m and “so that our hard-won gains can be fully consolidated”.
Yet he still persisted in telling MPs: “I am confident that we have the resources we need to do the job.”
The continuing row over whether British troops are being properly equipped will provide a bitter backdrop to today’s repatriation of eight soldiers killed in 24 hours. - News source - Daily Express
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