Blair's Speech - The Lads On The Ground Respond
We discussed Blair's speech to military commanders and academics earlier, in detail but we noticed that soldiers have taken exception to his words, especially "On the part of the military, they need to accept that in a volunteer armed force, conflict and casualty may be part of what they are called upon to face."
I sit here typing this in tears of anger, frustration and despair.
Having never served, HOW FCUKING DARE YOU make a comment like that. The finest, brightest, strongest, bravest young men and women in this country signed on the dotted line in selfless service of their country and you BETRAYED them by sending them into unsound conflict without adequate support.
YOU have made the decision to send young soldiers into a HELL from which some have never returned.
And if you think I'm being unreasonable, consider for a second my friends and comrades who will never again see the light of day. Consider the parents who leave their brave young son's bedroom just as he left it in the false hope that he might one day come home to them. Consider the children who, whilst you were no doubt enjoying a family Christmas, wept and sobbed because daddy wasn't there to open his presents - Because you murdered him in your political pandering.
May your dreams be haunted for the rest of your days by the youth and laughter which you've so smugly poured away.
Blair. You fcuking cnut.
It's very hard to follow
It's very hard to follow that and despite its rough edges really genuinly moving.
After reading it and feeling that frustration, tears and anger my mind somehow flipped back to that ghastly moment just after our messianic leader's last speech at the Labour party conference. You know the one, "I'm going to really miss you but I'll be thinking of you all when I'm gone" or some such nonsense to that effect. The moment I am referring to was the one when the gutless press interviewed one Mick "Red" Hucknall who whilst almost drooling spurted out a few words along the lines of "wonderful, wonderful oratory". Somebody please get me a bucket.
Oh, and Mick, can you please as a special request sing the following paraphased first verse of a song by the immortal Bob Dylan ?
"I've seen the truth go by my door
It's never been this close before
Never been so easy or so slow
Been shooting in the dark too long
When something's not right it's wrong
Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go..."
God help all of us, but please not the one Blair and Bush pray to...
Happy 2007 everyone...
Ian
Awesome posts on arrse.
Awesome posts on arrse. Brought tears to my eyes.
Seems we have the same sort of politiciazed, well-informed army as we had in the Second World War or in the New Model Army.
Britain's fleet of military
Britain's fleet of military aircraft has fallen by almost 10 per cent since Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party came to power in 1997, according to official figures.
In a written parliamentary reply, published Wednesday, Defence Minister Adam Ingram revealed that the total number of air force planes planned to be in service last March was 1,046 compared with 1,143 nine years earlier.
The actual number of military planes last year was further reduced by 27 when taking into account losses through crashes, re- categorizations and delivery schedules.
The largest reductions were in the number of trainers, down from 473 to 395, tanker and transport planes from 100 to 87, maritime patrol aircraft from 26 to 16 and in helicopters, from 167 to 132.
The number of fighters was scheduled to have increased from 356 to 379, but the actual number in service last March was seven fewer than planned.
http://www.upi.com/Arabia2000/view.php?StoryID=20070117-619859-1550-r
Claims by Tony Blair that a
Claims by Tony Blair that a transatlantic deal had been secured to cut global warming emissions have been dismissed as nothing more than hot air by a British Euro-MP.
Returning from a meeting with Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger nearly six months ago (1 August 2006) the British Prime Minister announced plans to bring the US state into the European carbon market.
The EU emissions trading scheme, which came into operation on 1 January 2005, is intended to enable Europe's 20,000 largest energy using companies to buy and sell licenses to emit carbon dioxide within a gradually reducing allocation set jointly by governments and the European Commission.
But Chris Davies, the Liberal Democrat environment spokesman in the European Parliament, and a British member of the cross-party climate change team of MEPs, claims nothing has happened in the six months since the announcement.
http://www.environmenttimes.co.uk/cgi-local/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1169033652,51912,
The principal of one of Tony
The principal of one of Tony Blair’s flagship city academies is facing allegations of financial rule-breaking at his previous school.
The auditors, Deloitte and Touche, found:
• Tens of thousands of pounds worth of expenditure on "alcohol and flowers" for staff and computers and other equipment that were not properly accounted for.
• Controls were so lax that two laptop computers lent to teachers at the school disappeared - with no sign they had been returned.
• Overhead projectors worth more than £2,000 were stolen and replaced at a cost of £2,880 - only for the replacements to be stolen.
• The teacher in charge of catering spent more than £13,000 on food using a school credit card. None was delivered to the school.
• A cafe and catering business was being run for profit without tills so that no accounts were properly kept.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=429414&in_page_id=1770
Condescending git that
Condescending git that blair. Rhymes with shit.
You don't even need to "'have served"', and there are millions of us around who have,including many involuntary conscripts,to know that 'conflict and casualties' go with the job. All that is needed is imagination, and empathy, which seem to be completely lacking in Mr Blair.
Including that phrase in a well-prepared lecture was an attack on his critics from within the Services and their families, accusing them of whingeing. Maybe he hoped to win support to his point of view.
I'm afraid, RFUK at ARRSE, that blair is far too busy to look at your website. A more sensible leader would delegate, make time to feel the country's pulse as it were, but this one is on a helter-skelter ride to Hell.
A question of definition almost, a more sensible and humble person would not have done all the crazy things he has.
A suitable punishment would be that he has nightmares over what he has accomplished.
That is the real Hell.
PS anonymous, your 3 posts are off-thread. Fuck off.
If the fecking poodle had
If the fecking poodle had had the decency to meet the first and every subsequent returning coffin from his failed foreign ventures.
If the two faced spineless twat had had the guts to meet the grieving familes as well.
Then he could criticize.
Quite frankly he should be made to dig the grave of every returning fallen hero from mow on. That might keep him from any further mischief.
barnacle_bill: His absence
barnacle_bill:
His absence speaks volumes, as do his many denials by proxy.
Blair's weakness is power, soon he will find himself in a vacuum.
I predict that eventually,
I predict that eventually, just like Thatcher, he'll live in a bottle with fantasies of being called back to save the nation.
Before the start of the Iraq
Before the start of the Iraq debacle Blair proudly strutted his stuff stating "he is prepared to pay a blood price"
I can't think of a more cowardly action than to pay such a price with the blood of others.
What a lousy excuse for a human being.
"In the end, Britain is a
"In the end, Britain is a sovereign nation. Britain decides its own policy and although I back America I would never back America if I thought they were doing something wrong.
"If I thought that by committing military action in a way that was wrong, I would not support it. But I have never found that and I don't expect to find it in the future."
Britain must be prepared to pay a "blood price" to secure its special relationship with the US.
But Britain was not America's puppet.
You can tell the lying cunt knows the truth all along.
Carbon markets are a joke.
Carbon markets are a joke. The idea of Bushco. progress is deregulation and 'voluntary compliance' by industry, in laws written by the industry.
Blair tooting Ahnuld's horn is just more industrialist porn.
A turd wrapped in a robe isn't royal, and that is the sum total of this agreement from across the pond.
Putting a new face on pollution is another spin campaign. Blair is a pulsar when it comes to that. A bright, blinking star in the world of shaping perceptions, across an empty expanse of cold cosmic filament. One that sheds less light and only reaches tangent illumination on its best moments.
Don't let Blair keep you in the dark.