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BULLETIN BOARD FOR 'DEFENDERS OF THE REALM'
   
   
  MoD - obtains almost half the COST of the Iraq War and Afghanistan  selling Army land - barracks- hospitals.JULY-2007
   
   
   
  1]. Defenders of the Realm - Part One
  2]. GOVERNMENT BY CONSENT BY JOHN GOURIET
  3]. MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN
  4]. Petition's to Her Majesty the Queen and Parliament    
"Right Click" on the image and select "Save As.."to download the petition in word document.
  5]. NEWS DESK - BATTLE FOR BRITAIN
  6]. 101 REASONS TO LEAVE THE EU
       101 REASONS TO LEAVE THE EU - PART 2
  7]. TREASON - A CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS - By NORRIS McWHIRTER
  8]. Roll of Supporters -Battle for Britain Campaign -Victory in Unity
  9]. Cross Party March London 25th July.
  10]. PRESS RELEASE - The People’s Petition to Her Majesty the Queen
  11]. RENUNCIATION OF EU CITIZENSHIP & EU CONSTITUTION
  12]. Download the RENUNCIATION OF CITIZENSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN UNION FORM.   
"Right Click" on the image and select "Save As.."to download the form in word document.
   
  13]   DITHERING BY DEFENCE CHIEFS ON ARMOURED VEHICLES HAS COST 30 LIVES
  14]     IF YOU ARE GOING TO PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE-You want to feel you're doing something worthwhile -which YOUR COUNTRY VALUES by Max Hastings.
  15]    DAMN YOUR POLITICAL- CORRECTNESS- MRS BECKETT-by Sir General Michael Rose -SAS commander in the FALKLANDS WAR  in 1982.
  16]    They are moving our troops from Iraq to Afghanistan -OUT of the FRYING PAN into the FIRE!-what has happened to the  £285,000 Mastiff heavily-armoured vehicles promised late last year-Des Browne? by Daily Mail Columnist Andrew Alexander
  17]     TRUE SITUATION IN IRAQ-COLOSSAL DAMAGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION - HIDDEN TO MAINTAIN 18TROOP MORALE by General Sir Michael Rose-former SAS commander in the Falklands and Bosnia.
  19 MoD Fail to test new computerised salary system so infantry in Iraq and Afghanistan-cannot be paid correctly.
   
   
   
   
   

   
   

THIS SPACE IS RESERVED To Serve

Our Brave Soldiers Where Ever They Are.

IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN

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IN MEMORIAM

They loved their comrades -their families and friends and they gave their all for their country in

Iraq        176

Afghanistan   125Total number of British service personnel killed in the above theatre of war has reached .- 301

The above figure covers ALL fatalities whether killed in action or by accident

LATEST CASUALTIES

 

 

1 Gurkha soldier - Afghanistan- NOVEMBER 15, 2008  

[Deaths in the Iraq/Afghanistan theatre of war = 301]

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2 Marines killed in Afghanistan on November,11, 2008

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1 Gurkha soldier - Afghanistan-NOVEMBER 3, 2008

 

LATEST!

NOVEMBER-2008

[For the Remembrance Month of November we bring forward those bulletins appropriate to this solemn reminder of the sacrifices of life and limb still made by members of our Armed Forces.]

    TIME TO REMEMBER THEM

 

 
     
 
MAJOR ISSUES BULLETIN
 
     
 

The Minister of 'Justice' Mr Straw the 'Nonsense ' man, says Iraq war was legal

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 The Iraq War wasn't illegal , Straw insists.

by

Ian Drury

[Daily Mail-November 19,2008]

 

JUSTICE Secretary Jack Straw yesterday insisted the decision to go to war in Iraq was

LEGAL

-despite the doubts raised by the former Lord Chief Justice.

Lord Bingham claimed on Monday that the legal advice justifying the war, given to then Prime Minister Tony Bliar was

'flawed'

 

The peer who is one of Britain's most respected judges, accused the

GOVERNMENT

of

'violating international law'

by sending in troops to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003. he claimed the Attorney General at the time LORD GOLDSMITH had given the Prime Minister 'no hard evidence' that the tyrant had defied United Nations Resolutions against him.

But Mr Straw yesterday defended the Government and said he 'did not accept' claims that the military action was ILLEGAL. the former FOREIGN SECRETARY added:

'Lord Goldsmith's advice that military action was LAWFUL and in accordance with the Security Council resolutions was shared by many member states.'

 

However , the Liberal Democrats said the 'damning' comments meant a FULL PUBLIC INQUIRY was now

'unavoidable'

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Daily Mail COMMENT

 

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[Font Altered-Bolding & Underlining used -Comments in Brackets]

NOVEMBER-2008

 

1918 - 2008 - WORLD WAR I  

90th ANNIVERSARY

The 90th Anniversary of the end of the Great War -11th November 1918 - is a significant date to remember the sacrifices British and Commonwealth Servicemen made.  To salute these heroes The Royal British Legion is planting a 'Flanders Field' of Poppies at the Menin gate Memorial in Belgium.  You can be part of this

ACT of COMMEMORATION

by returning the coupon and donation (see in your regular paper) with your personal message, which will be placed on one of the Poppies we plant .

Place the coupon in an envelope and return it to :

Fields of Remembrance, The Royal British Legion

Freepost SN 1457, Melksham, SN12 7BR.

Give online at www.poppy.org/flanders

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Corner of France where it will be forever England.

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Into the bloodbath of the Battle of the Somme of 90 years ago.

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Since the end of the World War II

16,000 servicemen –and women-have given their lives  and are still doing so for their country in 2008.

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300 BRAVE LIVES NOW

LOST

by our

ARMED FORCES

in

Afghanistan and Iraq

[The politicians should hide their heads in SHAME in SUPPORTING an ILLEGAL WAR in IRAQ and COVERING UP the TRUE FACTS  of a MISSION IMPOSSIBLE in AFGHANISTAN.]

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Many ask why has this happened? Well! the People have allowed their Government and Local Government to turn the phrase 'Servants of the public' as Tony Blair had indicted on his rise to power, upside down and the result that the TRUE FEELINGS of the mass of the people have been IGNORED.

History has shown that a people who are not vigilant to protect their 'Rights and Liberties' will suffer for their indifference and see their Servants turn into Masters.   The People rule in a DEMOCRACY not an ELITE which has been shown to have lost its way in not taking the people with them but instead acting the part of a DICTATORSHIP under the cover of their presumption that THEY KNOW BEST.

The fault is in our electoral system which has shut out the the true feelings of the people who have no-one to speak for THEM.

Our Armed Forces are the bravest in the world and they should not be treated so abysmally by the Government of the Day.  Their task is to

PROTECT OUR COUNTRY

and their lives not to be cast away on foreign adventures which do no credit to our once good standing in the world.

The latest poll shows that the greater number of the British people

WANT THEIR TROOPS HOME

for

CHRISTMAS

 

NOVEMBER-2008

 

 

 

GURKHA JUSTICE CAMPAIGN

Joanna Lumley and her Gurkha heroes need your help

NOW!

Last month, the High Court ruled that is was unlawful to exclude Gurkhas from the UK whop retired before 1997.

Over 45,000 died fighting for Britain in the World Wars, They defend us today.

HELP ME GET THEM JUSTICE'

I NEED

 

1,000,000 SIGNATURES

ON

www.gurkhajustice.org.uk

TO TAKE TO DOWNING STREET  IN NOVEMBER SO THAT THE PRIME MINISTER KNOWS THAT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE ON THIS ISSUE OF NATIONAL HONOUR.

WE NEED YOU TO LOG ON AND SIGN UP

www.gurkhajustice.org.uk

 

Joanna Lumley.

Advertisement sponsored by Sir Jack Hayward OBE.

 

 

 

 
 
 

LATEST!

OCTOBER-2008

 

 
 

PASS THE PARCEL

Letter to the Daily Mail

Wednesday, October 15,2008.

MY SON has just come to the end of a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan. For the past three months, he and the rest of the battalion have received NO PARCELS or LETTERS

To date, there have been at least 25 parcels which he hasn't received. Twice a week, I shop for the things he needed, such as underwear, toiletries, sweets , DVDs, etc., and always included a loving letter.

The soldiers have been desperate to hear from home, and it's somebody's job out there to make sure

THEY RECEIVE THEIR POST

but somewhere along the line

ITS GOING WRONG.

If our soldiers in

WORLD WAR I

could send and receive post from the trenches, surely there are ways and means of doing it

NOW.

WE CAN'T WIN THE WAR in AFGANISTAN against the TALIBAN.

[So after the consistent flannel and distorted facts and untruths of  the past we now at last have a most senior British commander in Afghanistan who spells out the truth that Britain cannot expect to 'win the war' against the Taliban.   No doubt Gordon Brown has now realised that he is running out of money FAST! and needed to prepare for our evacuation from Helmand Province?]

by

Kirsty Walker

[Daily Mail-Monday, October 6,2008]

THE UK'S most senior commander in Afghanistan yesterday warned that Britain could not expect to 'win the war' against the Taliban.

Brigadier Mark Carlton-Smith admitted it was unrealistic to think there would be a decisive military victory.

He went on to suggest that INTERNATIONAL FORCES may end up striking a deal with the insurgents about SECURITY.

[So those brave soldiers killed and the many thousands wounded some most severely have suffered because of the mistakes of the British Government. Many advisors with knowledge of the area had advised against the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE in AFGHANISTAN but to no avail. Heads must roll for the SACRIFICE which  was made by our brave soldiers who were told that the mission WOULD BRING SUCCESS.  Families of the dead and wounded should mount a campaign to get restitution from the GOVERNMENT for the reckless way it entered the affray which past history would have warned them that it would end in FAILURE.]

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OCTOBER 6-2008

 

 

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE COVER-UP TO AVOID TRUE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES IN AFGHANISTAN

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Adding insult to the injured

by

Peter McKay

[Daily Mail-Monday, September 22, 2008]

ACCORDING to reports yesterday, the

MINISTRY of DEFENCE

is covering up the

TRUE COST

of the war in

AFGHANISTAN

by hiding away soldiers who have been seriously injured there.

The MoD always says it's defending soldiers from 'media intrusion'.

This is a shabby lie.

They tell us when soldiers are killed, but not when they've lost legs or arms.  Its the same in America where the Government has banned photos of coffins arriving home and discouraged publicity about the maimed.

What they also don't tell us is that we're now bogged down in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN that we're virtually defenceless in the event of a

NEW EMERGENCY.

[Well! we have always suspected that the above practice was in place as we felt that the MoD are a devious and dangerous bunch of idiots and a danger  to the survival of our countries (while we still have one) security. Tony Blair's visit to St Malo in 1998  resulted in his and the EU's ultimate aim to destroy the effectiveness of British Armed Forces ,was put in place.]

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SEPTEMBER-2008

 

 

 

They made the  final sacrifice!

 

Five years ago today the war in Iraq began.  Since then many thousands of British servicemen and women have served in the conflict and 175 of them have died. These are the heroes who paid the ultimate price for their country.

WE MUST ALSO REMEMBER THEIR COMRADES IN ARMS

 

Thousands of our service personnel have been wounded many most severely  who will live in a living hell  for the rest of their lives because of their multiple wounds and the intense terror experienced.   There are also those who die later of their wounds and from the horrors of war.

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Afghanistan is becoming the forgotten war

The reality is that the so-called respectability of the war against terror in Afghanistan is a hard image for much the of world to accept and therefore British troops and others supportive of the so-called NATO solidarity are having to bear the brutal response to their unwelcome presence while the majority of the part-timers look on the venture as holding up the side so long as they have to rely on American superpower to protect their interests. This is precisely why the EU is desperately using the current unstable situation to obtain British troops as a spearhead of the European Defence Force.  This has been the object of Tony Blair  at St Malo in 1998 when he promised President Chirac  that he was prepared to cooperate in establishing a 'European Defence Identity' and since then he has had to face both ways until the New EU Treaty is fully ratified and then our brave troops will be flung into the ring of any unpleasant disturbance  anywhere which the EU considers needs the bravest of the brave to give their lives-NOT FOR CROWN AND COUNTRY but for an undemocratic unaccountable corrupt sovietised collective entity calling itself the

UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

 

Total loss of life as at May 2-2008

95

[See above for latest casualty figures-seriously wounded numbers have been kept from public view]

 

Brought forward from:

MAY 2-2008

 

 

 

GURKHAS ASK FOR JUSTICE

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LABOUR HAS DONE MANY SHAMEFUL THINGS BUT THIS IS SURELY THE WORST

by

Stephen Glover

[Daily Mail-Thursday, September 18, 2008]

Even the most stupid decisions by this or any other Government normally have a kind of twisted logic.  It is at least possible to glimpse the reasoning, though we may strongly disagree with what has been decided.

But this Government's attitude towards the Gurkhas falls into the category of things that make absolutely  NO SENSE AT ALL.  It has refused to grant the right of residence to some 2,000 former Gurkhas who served in the BRITISH ARMY before 1997.

THIS OUTRAGE IS BEING CONSIDERED BY THE HIGH COURT IN LONDON THIS WEEK

Since 1816 the Gurkhas, who come from Nepal have been part of the backbone of the British Army. Some 45,000 of them have died

HAVE DIED FOR THIS COUNTRY

and 150,000 of them have have been injured. Thirteen have won the VCs. During both WORLD WARS more than 200,000 Gurkhas

FOUGHT FOR BRITAIN

and they have served in countless other conflicts, including in recent times, the

FALKLANDS-IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN...

A normally patriotic Briton, proud of our armed forces and grateful for their

SACRIFICES

would put the

GURKHAS

at the head of of a long queue of those who want to come and live in this country.  And yet

THIS GOVERNMENT

does not even put them back 0f

THE QUEUE

It accepts hundreds of thousands of

IMMIGRANTS

from the

FOUR CORNERS  of THE WORLD

without being able to find a home for a mere 2000 former soldiers

WHO SERVED THIS COUNTRY.

LETS HOPE the HIGH COURT finds IN THEIR FAVOUR.

EVEN IF IT DOES, it is a DISGRACE that these BRAVE -IMPOVERISED MEN should have been DRIVEN TO GO TO LAW to ESTABLISH RIGHTS which all DECENT and REASONABLE PEOPLE would say

WERE ALREADY THEIRS.

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SEPTEMBER -2008

 

 

 

BATTLE OF THE 'BETRAYED'

GURKHAS

 

GOES TO NO 10 DOWNING STREET

 

GURKHA veterans marched on Downing Street yesterday to

DEMAND JUSTICE

FROM  THE

PRIME MINISTER

 

[To be continued]

 

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SEPTEMBER-2008

 

 

[WE SAY]

 

 

LET THE GURKHAS STAY

 

 

 A petition backing the Gurkhas has been posted on Mr Brown's Downing Street website. It can be signed at

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Gurkha-soldiers.

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[We have calculated that approximately 3000 concerned citizens are registering their support every day which converts to 21,000 a week and almost 100,000 for the month. This significant and possibly unprecedented response shows the immense sincere feelings of the British people towards the Gurkhas and their just and highly warranted cause to reside in the country, for which they have fought loyally and with their accustomed unsparing bravery for QUEEN and COUNTRY on our behalf all over the world, for over 150 years.  The vast majority of the 43,000 denied entry would prefer to stay in Nepal. -The cut-off date is 1997 the date that Hong Kong was handed back to China.]

MARCH 22-2008

[Brought forward to September,2008]

 

A TRUE -GRIT HERO -HIS ACTION SAVED HIS COMRADES.

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DEATH OF A TRUE HERO.

by

 Matthew Hickley

[Daily Mail -Defence Correspondent-Saturday, September 13,2008]

Boob-disposal expert killed trying to defuse a Taliban booby trap.

One of the British Army's most experienced and highly decorated boob -disposal experts has been killed in Afghanistan while trying to defuse a Taliban explosive.

Gary O'Donnell ,40, was approaching the booby -trap to clear a path for fellow soldiers when it detonated, close to the town of Musa Qalch in Helmand Province on Wednesday.

Although he was commanding officer commanding a team of specialist engineers, the bomb-disposal expert selflessly chose to walk towards the device himself. [A brave and true commander and soldier who led from the front]....

'The danger to his own life rarely seemed to affect him. If it did, he kept it to himself.- his big smile often giving reassurance to the less experienced or more anxious .  Men of that calibre are extremely rare.'

Defence Secretary, Des Brown said of Warrant Officer O'Donnel:

'I have no doubt that in his extraordinary career he was personally responsible for saving thousands of the family, friends and comrades of others from the anguish that is currently being felt by his wife.

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['Self -preservation is the first law of nature; self-sacrifice the highest rule of grace'.]

[TO BE CONTINUED]

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SEPTEMBER-2008

 

 

WE WISH AFGHANS GOOD LUCK GETTING POWER SUPPLIES -BUT NOT THE LOSS OF ONE  BRITISH SOLDIER TO ACHIEVE IT.

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Winning the battle, but still losing the war

by

Andrew Alexander

[Daily Mail, Friday, September 12,2008]

ON THE subject of Nato's progress in Afghanistan, would you prefer the assessment of a top American admiral or of local British commanders?

Judge for yourself. Admiral Mullen, who heads the U.S Chief's of Staff says he is 'not convinced that Nato is winning'.

By contrast [as usual] the cheerful British military command in Afghanistan says that we may be witnessing 'the beginning of the end. [that we can believe but not what they have in mind].

This burst of optimism follows the remarkable tactical success in recent days of delivering a huge turbine to a dam through a hundred miles of Taliban territory to provide power (but not for another two year) to many homes in the area.

It was certainly a masterly exercise in deception and logistics a considerable tactical victory. BUT  it is sad to see our generals [as is usual) failing to understand that strategically

IT IS MERELY A PRELUDE TO TROUBLE-PERHAPS DISASTER....

[Font Altered-Bolding & Underlining Used-Comments in Square Brackets]

[TO BE CONTINUED]

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SEPTEMBER-2008

 

 

BRIGADIER SAYS:  

BRITISH MUSLIMS ARE HELPING TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN

According to the former head of SAS and commander of UK Forces in the country.

by

Con Coughlin-Duncan Gardham and Thomas Harding.

[Daily Telegraph-Saturday, August 2,2008]

 

UK forces have uncovered evidence that British Muslims are actively  supporting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in attacks on coalition forces he said.

Brig. Butler added: " There are British passport holders who live in the UK who are being found in places like KANDAHAR.

There is a link between Kandahar and urban conurbations in the UK

This is something the MILITARY understands but the BRITISH PUBLIC does NOT."

 

[TO BE CONTINUED]

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AUGUST-2008

 

 

BBC NEWS-10PM -MONDAY ,JULY 28 -2008

Why our troops are dying in Afghanistan.

113

The BBC announcer mentions that another British soldier has died in Afghanistan and whilst doing so makes an inappropriate aside that his presence there was helping RECONSTRUCTION.

Anyone in their right mind would know that it is dangerous business for our troops to keep the ever pressing Taliban at bay so it is obvious that the so-called cover story of reconstruction being carried out in a country not secure from insurgents is a bit of

GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA.

NO BRITISH SOLDIER SHOULD BE ASKED TO DIE IN ORDER TO KEEP RECONSTRUCTION WORK IN BEING.

TO PROTECT HIMSELF AND HIS COMRADES HIS ONLY RESPONSIBILITY.

The announcer is no doubt under orders from the GOVERNMENT to give some explanation as to why our troops should lay down their lives in Afghanistan or Iraq.

TO SAY THEY NEED TO DIE TO HELP RECONSTRUCTION

IS NOT ONE OF THEM.

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JULY-2008

 

A Man and his Dog

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Soldier and his sniffer dog die in Taliban trap

by

Matthew Hickley

Defence Correspondent

[Daily Mail-Saturday, July 26,2008]

A BRITISH soldier and his dog have been killed in | Taliban ambush in Afghanistan.  .   .

The latest tragedy brings the human death rate toll to

112

and marks the first time a British dog has been killed[ with his handler] in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Army dogs which make a dramatic contribution to operations are eligible for the DICKENS MEDAL-commonly known as the animal Victoria Cross.

[TO BE CONTINUED]

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JULY -2008

 

 

Spiralling MoD budgets 'leave troops short of equipment

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[Daily Mail-Tuesday, July 22,2008]

FRONTLINE troops could run short of vital equipment because of spiralling costs of defence projects, MPs have warned.

A scathing report by Parliamentary spending watchdogs today accuses the Ministry of Defence of concealing

£1 billion of costs from scrutiny.

Matthew Elliott of the taxpayers' Alliance, said:

An over-run of a few hundred million might seem forgivable in a plush MoD office,

BUT

in

IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN

these things mean the difference between

LIFE and DEATH.

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JULY-2008

 

 

OUR TROOPS

'BETRAYED'

Paras chief who quit in anger speaks out for the first time over treatment of soldiers.

A HIGHLY decorated commander who served in Afghanistan spoke out yesterday for the first time over his soldiers 'shoddy' treatment.

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Tootal said he had been shocked by how

'our wounded soldiers were not being looked after'

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JULY 21-2008

 

 

WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE?

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Some custard pies for our shadowy spook-watchers.

by

Quentin Letts

(Yesterday in Parliament)

[Daily Mail-Friday, July 18,2008]

[We ask the question as the majority of the members of Commons Committee  ' whose supervision of MI5 and MI6 -the very intelligence world whose work was manipulated to take us into the IRAQ WAR' . are still members of the ISC- Intelligence and Security Committee.  One has only to look at the individuals themselves to realise that they are hardly the right material to protect us all from the rogue units within our Security Services -but particularly MI6 which has Sir John Scarlett its Head - rewarded  for toeing the line  and no doubt protecting Tony Blair's deceitful decision the tragic  consequences of which as at the

18th July 2008 

has resulted in the death of

 175 British Troops

Thousands wounded and hundreds seriously wounded and were treated in the NHS wards which to many must have been a return to

HELL.

Quite frankly the members of the ISC should be airlifted to Iraq.   Be given a rifle that jams and without adequate body protection placed in a basic Snatch Land-Rover and told to hold a strategic stronghold until it is relieved-which will of course be never. ]

[TO CONTINUE]

JULY 18-2008

 

THE SOLDIER'S  SOLDIER

 SIR RICHARD DANNATT FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH HAS BEEN SIDELINED FROM BEING 

 CHIEF of the DEFENCE STAFF

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Treachery-Politicians and the shameful

BETRAYAL

of the

MAN of HONOUR

by

PETER OBORNE

POLITICS AND POWER

.  .  .Our Armed Forces were the finest in the world when New Labour took over in 1997. But it's now time to ask whether they are in danger of being destroyed by

SELFISH CIVILIAN POLITICIANS

who have entirely forgotten, or perhaps never knew the idea of

DUTY

to

ONE'S COUNTRY.

 

 

 

 

[Daily Mail, Saturday-July 12, 2008]

 [TO BE CONTINUED]

JULY-2008

 

 

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THE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER

Dannatt 'to go early after snub over promotion'

by

Matthew Hickley

Defence Correspondent

[Daily Mail-Saturday, July 12,2008]

 

THE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER

HE  may be the archetypal Army high flyer but General Sir Richard Dannat is still his own man.

As well as being a formidable field commander he is a devout evangelical Christian.

The son of an Essex architect, he studied economic history at Durham University and was commissioned into the Army in 1971.

The father of four who earned the Military Cross at 22, moved quickly up the ranks, commanding the 4th Armoured Brigade the Army's 3rd Division and then British Forces in Kosovo in 1999.

By 2005 he was Commander-in-Chief of UK land forces, and a year later became the professional head of the Army. He lives in Norfolk with his wife of 31 years.

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Quote re. BRITISH TROOPS IN IRAQ

'As a foreigner, you can be welcomed by being invited into a country, but we weren't invited. let's face it in 2003 we effectively kicked the door in. We should get ourselves out sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems,'

[TO BE CONTINUED]

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JULY- 2008

 

THIS SPACE IS RESERVED To Serve

Our Brave Soldiers Where Ever They Are.

IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN

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IN MEMORIAM

They loved their comrades -their families and friends and they gave their all for their country in

Iraq        175

Afghanistan   112

Total number of British service personnel killed in the above theatre of war has reached .- 286

The above figure covers ALL fatalities whether killed in action or by accident

LATEST CASUALTIES

 

1 soldier with his dog-July26-2008

 

TROOPS LET DOWN by NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SAYS SURGEON GENERAL

by

Aislinn Simpsonn

[Daily Telegraph-Wednesday, June 4,2008]

INJURED troops deserve better treatment on NHS wards Britain's senior military doctor admitted yesterday.

Lt-Gen Louis Lillywhite, the Surgeon General, said double the number of troops now survive serious injuries than would have done during the Falklands conflict.

[The greater survival rate is of course the result of advances in medical science which we are all thankful for but the GOVERNMENT would have been under greater pressure to rethink earlier its involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan if the fatalities had been far greater.  We must assume that Lt-Gen Louis Lillywhite and the other top brass of the ARMED FORCES made a robust answer of the tragic consequences which would result from the Government's intention to sell off ALL military hospitals - the deplorable treatment at the hands of the NHS of those who have laid their lives on the line -in what they have to believe was in defence of their country. ]

Figures compiled by the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) show that by mid-February, the Armed Forces had suffered 87 fatalities in Afghanistan;114 personal were seriously or very seriously injured;  1,133 injured personnel were admitted to field hospitals; and 880 were evacuated to  Britain.

In Iraq, 212 had died, 212 were seriously or very seriously injured, 2,695, were admitted to field hospitals and 1,347 were evacuated to Britain. . .

TO BE CONTINUED

" All the issues about quality of care, or lack of it, started when he went into NHS hospitals.'

WE ASK-HOW MANY TOP MILITARY PERSONNEL HAVE RESIGNED ON THE ISSUE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF DEDICATED MILITARY HOSPITALS IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF OUR BRAVE  SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN?

NONE AS FAR AS WE ARE AWARE-BUT THEY HAVE TIME TO WRITE ABOUT THEIR EXPLOITS.

JULY-2008

 

TALIBAN is BIGGER RISK to TROOPS than IRAQ

by

David Williams

Chief Reporter

[Daily Mail-Tuesday July2-2008]

MORE British and Nato soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq for the second successive month as fears grow that the Taliban are resurgent.

Experts say there is emerging evidence that Al Qaeda is advising and possibly operating  alongside the Taliban.

Fears that Al Qaeda is working alongside the Taliban have risen since last month's spectacular freeing of nearly

900

TALIBAN PRISONERS FROM A PRISON IN KANDAHAR.

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[TO BE CONTINUED]

JULY 2-2008

 

 

BLOODIEST MONTH FOR SOLDIERS IN AFGHAN WAR

by

Matthew Hickley

Defence Correspondent

[Daily Mail-Monday June30-2008]

BRITISH ground forces in Afghanistan have had the bloodiest month since the invasion seven years ago. The death of a soldier on Saturday brought to

13

 the number killed in

21 days.

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TO BE CONTINUED

JUNE 30-2008

 

 

POOR KIT 'HAS COST THE LIFE OF 60 SERVICMEN'

by

Matthew Hickley

[Daily Mail-Wednesday , June 18,2008]

AS many as 60 British servicemen have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan because the Government failed to provide adequate equipment a Tory Inquiry has claimed.

Frederick Forsyth, the author and former RAF pilot, chairing the

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

into the treatment of the

ARMED FORCES

accused

MINISTERS

 of

'frittering away billions'

on pet projects while refusing to give troops fighting overseas

THE RESOURCES THEY NEED

[To be continued]

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JUNE 18-2008

 

 

 

PARAS SUFFER WORST LOSSES IN ANY WEEK SINCE THE FALKLANDS

 

by

Matthew Hickley

Defence Correspondent

[Daily Mail-Saturday, June 14, 2008]

TWO British Paratroopers killed in a firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan were named last night as lance Corporal James Bateman and Private Jeff Doherty.

The latest losses mean five Paratroopers have been killed in the past seven days -the regiment''s worst week of losses since the Falklands conflict a quarter of a century ago.

[Full transcript to follow]

JUNE 14-2008

 

 

Afghanistan is becoming the forgotten war

The reality is that the so-called respectability of the war against terror in Afghanistan is a hard image for much the of world to accept and therefore British troops and others supportive of the so-called NATO solidarity are having to bear the brutal response to their unwelcome presence while the majority of the part-timers look on the venture as holding up the side so long as they have to rely on American superpower to protect their interests. This is precisely why the EU is desperately using the current unstable situation to obtain British troops as a spearhead of the European Defence Force.  This has been the object of Tony Blair  at St Malo in 1998 when he promised President Chirac  that he was prepared to cooperate in establishing a 'European Defence Identity' and since then he has had to face both ways until the New EU Treaty is fully ratified and then our brave troops will be flung into the ring of any unpleasant disturbance  anywhere which the EU considers needs the bravest of the brave to give their lives-NOT FOR CROWN AND COUNTRY but for an undemocratic unaccountable corrupt sovietised collective entity calling itself the

UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

 

Total loss of life as at JUNE 14-2008

102

THERE CAN BE FEW IN OUR COUNTRY THAT SUPPORT THE WAR BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO REALISE THAT OUR BRAVE TROOPS HAVE NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER WHEREAS THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE HAVE THE CHANCE TO CHANGE A GOVERNMENT.  BUT AS WE ALL KNOW THE TWO MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES SUPPORTED THE ILLEGAL ACTION. THEREFORE IN REALITY THE VOTER HAS BEEN DENIED JUSTICE. UNDER A PRO-PORTIONAL REPRESENTATION SYSTEM IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE FOR A GOVERNMENT TO GO AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE.  IT IS THEREFORE MOST IMPORTANT THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION ARE REMINDED WHEN OUR BRAVE SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN ARE KILLED, AS THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO BRING THE ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAQ AND MISSION IMPOSSIBLE IN AFGHANISTAN TO AN END

 

 

 

OUR SOLDIERS are HEROES but the TRUTH is WE are FAILING in AFGHANISTAN

by

Max Hastings

[Daily Mail-Tuesday, June 10,2008]

 

 

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A REMEMBRANCE

 

THE DEATHS OF OUR BRAVE SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR SACRIFICE HONOURED BY NOT HAVING THEIR REMEMBRANCE SLOT BETWEEN THE USUAL MUNDANE NEWS SUBJECTS BUT A SEPARATE ANNOUNCER PREFERABLY MILITARY WHO WOULD  NOT BE CAUGHT LAUGHING AS THE USUAL CASE AT PRESENT ON THE NEWS BULLETINS. 

IT IS THE LEAST WE CAN DO FOR THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES AND WOULD GIVE THEIR PARENTS AND FRIENDS A MOMENT OF REMEMBRANCE WITHOUT THE TRIVIAL MATTERS EITHER SIDE OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT. HAVING THE SEPARATE ANNOUNCER WILL SEPARATE MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH WHEN IT CONCERNS OUR OWN BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES.

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THERE CAN BE FEW IN OUR COUNTRY THAT SUPPORT THE WAR BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO REALISE THAT OUR BRAVE TROOPS HAVE NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER WHEREAS THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE HAVE THE CHANCE TO CHANGE A GOVERNMENT.  BUT AS WE ALL KNOW THE TWO MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES SUPPORTED THE ILLEGAL ACTION. THEREFORE IN REALITY THE VOTER HAS BEEN DENIED JUSTICE. UNDER A PRO-PORTIONAL REPRESENTATION SYSTEM IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE FOR A GOVERNMENT TO GO AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE.  IT IS THEREFORE MOST IMPORTANT THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION ARE REMINDED WHEN OUR BRAVE SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN ARE KILLED, AS THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO BRING THE ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAQ AND MISSION IMPOSSIBLE IN AFGHANISTAN TO AN END

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7000 extra U.S. troops for Afghan frontier

 

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Prevention and Cure

IN a long-overdue decision, Defence Secretary Des Browne invests £24 million extra in

HEADLEY COURT

The rehabilitation centre for service men seriously injured in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN.

NOW let him step up his efforts to put the CENTRE out of BUSINESS by seeing that our FRONT-LINE TROOPS are properly EQUIPPED.

TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.

[Daily Mail-Comment-May 7-2008]

 

 

 

MAY-2008

 

 

 

 

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They made the  final sacrifice!

 

Five years ago today the war in Iraq began.  Since then many thousands of British servicemen and women have served in the conflict and 175 of them have died. These are the heroes who paid the ultimate price for their country.

WE MUST ALSO REMEMBER THEIR COMRADES IN ARMS

 

Thousands of our service personnel have been wounded many most severely  who will live in a living hell  for the rest of their lives because of their multiple wounds and the intense terror experienced.   There are also those who die later of their wounds and from the horrors of war.

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Afghanistan is becoming the forgotten war

The reality is that the so-called respectability of the war against terror in Afghanistan is a hard image for much the of world to accept and therefore British troops and others supportive of the so-called NATO solidarity are having to bear the brutal response to their unwelcome presence while the majority of the part-timers look on the venture as holding up the side so long as they have to rely on American superpower to protect their interests. This is precisely why the EU is desperately using the current unstable situation to obtain British troops as a spearhead of the European Defence Force.  This has been the object of Tony Blair  at St Malo in 1998 when he promised President Chirac  that he was prepared to cooperate in establishing a 'European Defence Identity' and since then he has had to face both ways until the New EU Treaty is fully ratified and then our brave troops will be flung into the ring of any unpleasant disturbance  anywhere which the EU considers needs the bravest of the brave to give their lives-NOT FOR CROWN AND COUNTRY but for an undemocratic unaccountable corrupt sovietised collective entity calling itself the

UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

 

Total loss of life as at May 2-2008

95

 

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[WE SAY]

LET THE GURKHAS STAY

 

 

 A petition backing the Gurkhas has been posted on Mr Brown's Downing Street website. It can be signed at

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Gurkha-soldiers.

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[We have calculated that approximately 3000 concerned citizens are registering their support every day which converts to 21,000 a week and almost 100,000 for the month. This significant and possibly unprecedented response shows the immense sincere feelings of the British people towards the Gurkhas and their just and highly warranted cause to reside in the country, for which they have fought loyally and with their accustomed unsparing bravery for QUEEN and COUNTRY on our behalf all over the world, for over 150 years.  The vast majority of the 43,000 denied entry would prefer to stay in Nepal. -The cut-off date is 1997 the date that Hong Kong was handed back to China.]

MARCH 22-2008

 

 

LATEST!

APRIL-2008

 

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KOSOVO -A HISTORICAL SERB PROVINCE -FOR OVER 100 YEARS

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SUBJECT TO MASSIVE ETHNIC CLEANSING-WITH THE HELP OF NAZI DURING WWII AND TITO THEREAFTER.

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[The DICTATOR of Kosovo until recently was our own Bilderberger of LibDem fame Paddy Ashdown (See Bilderbergers)]

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600 British troops

are now having to return to KOSOVO because of the takeover of SERB territory by Albanian so-called freedom fights financed by GERMANY has left an explosive situation which will never heal until KOSOVO is returned to its rightful sovereignty.

APRIL-2008

 

 

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IRAQ!

WHICH COUNTRY NEXT TO BE BOMBED TO HELL IN THE NAME OF

AN ETHICAL POLICY ?

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MARCH 21-2008