Thought for the day

[jhetley]

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

"The Young British Soldier"
Rudyard Kipling

Yes, this shit has been going on for a while...

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

[silme.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Blair is pulling 1500 soldiers out of Iraq soon, just to ship 2/3 of them of Afghanistan. :(

[wolfette]

and the rest - they're talking about 6,000 troops going to Afghanistan.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Lovely. (Not.)

And just last night I was predicting that the troops being withdrawn from Iraq would be sent to either Afghanistan or Iran. Why do I fear the latter will come into play all too soon? :(

[wolfette]

I love how Tony Bliar can announce "We're withdrawing British troops from Iraq"

and five minutes later

"we're sending more of them to Afghanistan instead"

(if they'd finished what they were at in Afghanistan in the first place)