Our Soldiers are forbidden to show their anger and resentment-WE MUST DO IT FOR THEM!

 

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Daily Mail

Tuesday, 30 May 2006

 

 

By

 

Max Hastings

 

 

Our soldiers are being exploited and mistreated

by a political leadership

unfit to lick their boots

 

YESTERDAY’S news that two more British soldiers had been killed in Basra followed another report that Army desertions have trebled since the Iraq invasion.

 

The desertion figures should shock, but did not surprise us.

 

This is the most unpopular war in living memory that our soldiers have been asked to fight.

 

Once, a parent might have told an absconding soldier son to get back where he belonged and do his duty.

 

Today, by contrast, many mothers and fathers are deeply reluctant to see their children risk everything in an apparently thankless cause - a reality also reflected in poor Army recruiting

Figures.

 

The absolute number of ‘permanent absent without leave’ cases

-              AWOLs -is not disastrous: 337 last year, in an Army of 100,000.

 

Most of our soldiers fulfil their orders with the same loyalty, dedication and professionalism they have always shown.

 

But the figures reflect a malaise that goes much deeper and should alarm everyone who cares about our Armed Forces.

 

These have been cut to the bone by a Government, which insists that they do far too much with far too little.

 

The truth is that the ‘can do’ spirit on which British commanders have always prided themselves is being abused by MINISTERS in the most cynical fashion.

 

When John Reid was still Defence Secretary, he issued draconian instructions that no officer should publicly discuss the Army’s new mission in AFGHANISTAN where 13people were killed yesterday during a riot in the capital Kabul.

 

This was because he knew that most soldiers regard Britain’s Afghan commitment with 3000 of our troops spearheading a NATO force of 14,000 as a gesture of the worst sort.

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Credible

 

The British contingent is being deployed in Helmand province, an area the size of Scotland, with no credible plan, and no coherent chain of command beyond a battery of international committees.

 

Their task is to support the Afghan reconstruction process a commendable objective, if there were 20 times the number of men to do it.

 

The British contribution is restricted by our desperate shortage of helicopters, a scandal in its own right.

 

[As a reminder that we have 20 Apache helicopters with no pilots which cost our Government twice the price they needed to have been - which are in storage rather than protecting our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and other locations where are hard-pressed troops are serving in the world.]

 

The NATO contingents will be prevented by their own governments from acting offensively against the Taliban insurgents [which the Americans trained in the Afghan war against the Russians], or even from firing their weapons except in mortal peril.

 

The British will be able to train some Afghan soldiers, but if they attack the huge local heroin industry, no one doubts that the local people there will respond violently.

 

In other words, NATO troops are being deployed on an ill-defined mission with wildly inadequate resources, so that the British Government can pretend that we are ‘doing our bit’

 

A distinguished retired officer told me yesterday:

 

‘This is MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, and it seems wrong to commit our troops on such terms.’

 

The Afghan deployment - which does not formally start for another month - is, of course, overlaid on the strain of British operations in Iraq.

 

Units are being rotated into combat so frequently that not only are the soldiers’ domestic lives uprooted, but their training is also being chronically dislocated.

 

Intensive training is vital, even when soldiers are getting battle experience. Yet cash constraints have caused all training to be slashed except for units on the brink of deployment.

 

Most of the Army’s equipment is still good, but delays in ordering a new INFANTRY ARMOURED VEHICLE represent another scandal.

 

The armoured Land Rover is not remotely adequate for patrolling in areas where insurgents are using landmines - as they did yesterday for the killing in Basra. Yet until a new vehicle is provided, our soldiers will continue to be blown up in Land Rovers.

 

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[WHY! Oh! WHY! Does not the MoD purchase the best American or other available armoured vehicles to fill the gap in the meantime -expense should

NOT

be a question to arise when our brave troops are dying because of lack of adequate protection. We have been informed yet again by the Public Accounts

Investigators

 

that billions of £s have been and are still being squandered in the public services.]

 

 

To continue:

 

 

The threat of legal action against men who make mistakes in action also casts a much longer shadow than senior officers admit.

 

Even in elite units, there are authoritative reports of soldiers proving reluctant to pull the trigger because of lurking lawyers

 

Unit colonels, whose word was once law among those they led, know that on the battlefield they must keep one eye over their shoulder, watching the hunting pack of civilian officials and special investigators who dog the heels of the fighting man.

 

The reputation of

 

Lord Goldsmith

 

-the Attorney-General was destroyed by his change of heart to accommodate Tony Blair about the legality of invading Iraq in 2003.

 

Yet Goldsmith’s sticky fingers continue to meddle in Army combat operations.

 

The string of soldiers’ trials

for which he is responsible - even though most have been abandoned -has done harm.

 

Intelligence, the vital tool of counter-insurgency, is in a poor state.

 

Tony Blair appointed John Scarlett, the intelligence officer most intimately implicated with him in the 2003 weapons of mass-destruction scandal, as

Director of the Secret Intelligence Service

[MI6].

 

Scarlett’s performance commands no more confidence now than it did then, but Alastair Campbell’s ‘mate’ merely observes complacently:

 

‘There have been no complaints from the Minister of Defence’

 

-about MI6’s work.

THERE CERTAINLY SHOULD BE.

 

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Betrayal

 

It is a fine mess, reflecting a historic betrayal by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. For several generations, Britain has possessed the finest armed forces of their size in the world.

 

NOW, increasingly, they are falling prey to the diseases, which afflict their European counterparts.

 

[Well! this is to be expected of such a man - a untraditional Prime Minister- a pro-European fanatic and an unashamed TRAITOR to his country]

 

Short of resources and overstretched, in operational areas -units are encouraged to act cautiously, to restrict casualties and the political embarrassment they cause.

 

A senior soldier says:

 

‘The British Army is rightly proud of its offensive spirit, but this is being knocked out of it.

 

We are now very much poor relations of the Americans, who are allowed to go after insurgents much more aggressively, because our politicians don’t want trouble.

 

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[As we have said so often what kind of members of Parliament have we that sat so firmly in their seats rather than rock the boat when it was plain to millions of their constituents in the country that the war was illegal and a threat to World Peace and that retribution would come down on our heads.

 

What events have unfolded over the past nine years is that our once world respected Ancient Constitution has been defiled beyond recognition and those who should have got off their seats to reclaim the

 

Rights and Liberties of the People

 

- simply put through another increase in their already gold-plated pensions.]

 

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To continue:

 

Not long ago, I attended a dinner at which an American guest described how his son, a young officer serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq, received countless letters and parcels sent to him -as to every American Combat Soldier -from unknown well-wishers back in the U.S.

 

‘Does the same happen to your men?’

-my friend asked a British officer beside him.

 

‘NO’, it does not,’ came the bitter response

 

‘This is a very unpopular war.’

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Monstrous

 

In this matter, the American people are behaving better than the British.

 

It is no fault of our fighting men that they have fallen victim to the monstrous misjudgements of their government. They are as splendid as they always were, and deserve our unstinting admiration, affection and support.

 

But we should not fool ourselves that they are happy in their work. They are being exploited and mistreated by a political leadership, which does not deserve them.

 

Iraq has become a familiar story of woe, and Afghanistan represents a nonsense that could become a tragedy.

 

‘This Government is presiding over grave damage to the British Army.’ Says a former Chief of Staff who is not given to exaggeration.

 

Our soldiers are forbidden to show anger and resentment.

 

IT IS UP TO US TO DO THIS FOR THEM!

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REMEMBER THERE IS A CIVIL WAR NOW IN IRAQ

 

 

[THERE IS A GREAT DEAL WE CAN DO FOR OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS AND THAT IS FOR EACH CITIZEN TO DEMAND FROM THEIR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT THAT A FIRM DATE -

A MATTER OF MONTHS

FOR OUR TROOPS TO RETURN HOME.

THAT IS THE GIFT OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS WOULD WANT AND ALL IT WILL COST WILL BE A LETTER/FAX/ OR E-MAIL.

 

WILL YOU DO IT?

 

 

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JUNE/06

 

 

 

We will start the ball rolling by putting on line our request to our

Warwick/Leamington Spa MP

 

 

Mr James Plaskitt

The Labour Party

40,High Street

Leamington Spa

May 29-2006

 

Dear Mr Plaskitt

 

I am writing to you to ask for your co-operation in doing whatever you can to obtain a firm date for the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq -sooner than later as you I am sure you are as concerned of the growing fatalities and injured among our brave soldiers.

 

I am unable to accept any suggestion that we should have to stay until we are no longer needed because it is obvious from the present circumstances in Iraq that there is a civil war in progress and as shown in the past week we are now losing our brave soldiers almost by the week with many more wounded scared for life.

 

I await your early reply.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Michael Charles Gibbs.

 

6,Field Barn Road, Hampton Magna, Warwick. CV35 8RT

 

 

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