Swiss Tony
End of the pier show ⭐⭐
And guess who's doing the graft.By the way people do realise this war is a United Nations led effort, under the ISAF setup which is being led by NATO, and not just an UK/US problem?
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Afghanistan
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Lord Football
Blues on Tour
This is Craig Murray
He was a candidate in the Norwich North By Election held last week. He spoke at a Candidate's Question Time, which I chaired. One of the questions raised was "should there be more helicopters for our boys in Afghanistan".
His answer took everyone by surprise, and is pretty much the best answer I've ever heard at a political event.
It went like this....
They don't need helicopters. They need planes. Planes to bring them home. I know this because I was the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan which neighbours Afghanistan.
He then went on to explain how the Afghan PM's brother is the world's biggest cultivator of heroin and the real reason we are there. We are not there to protect the good people of Kabul and Kanadahar, but we are there to protect an oil pipeline that runs right through the country. If there wasn't that oil line, we wouldn't be there at all.
Never quite understood why GWB and Bush decided to go into Afghanistan in the first place, especially as the West armed the Taliban in the first place.
Bring our soldiers home. Enough young lives have been wasted. Enough families destroyed.
He was a candidate in the Norwich North By Election held last week. He spoke at a Candidate's Question Time, which I chaired. One of the questions raised was "should there be more helicopters for our boys in Afghanistan".
His answer took everyone by surprise, and is pretty much the best answer I've ever heard at a political event.
It went like this....
They don't need helicopters. They need planes. Planes to bring them home. I know this because I was the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan which neighbours Afghanistan.
He then went on to explain how the Afghan PM's brother is the world's biggest cultivator of heroin and the real reason we are there. We are not there to protect the good people of Kabul and Kanadahar, but we are there to protect an oil pipeline that runs right through the country. If there wasn't that oil line, we wouldn't be there at all.
Never quite understood why GWB and Bush decided to go into Afghanistan in the first place, especially as the West armed the Taliban in the first place.
Bring our soldiers home. Enough young lives have been wasted. Enough families destroyed.
Bob Cratchitt
Devil's Advocate
No saying that our troops are in a dangerous area but lets not be blind to the fact that other countries are involved in some dangerous places, just that our news media are just focusing on our efforts, so it could be easily seen by the UK Public that we are doing most of the work.
I will have to defer to chadded who has spent considerable amount of time in this theatre to confirm whether the other countries apart from the UK or US are involved in such high risk engagements.
Napster
No ⭐
and he's not a controversial chappy at all.
Junior Toot
Dane Bowers
osymandus
Life President
Swiss Tony
End of the pier show ⭐⭐
Sorry i should of said what countries i meant,GB,USA,and Canada,i'm not saying other nations are not involved,they are,but just not to our levels.
Rusty Shackleford
Banned
Murray says that he has 'fun' being a dissident, and left his wife and kids for an Uzbek belly dancer. And this is the guy that Lord Football thinks we should be listening to on key issues of foreign policy. Nice post Naps.
DTS
The Business
For me one single British death fighting a war in a foreign land that does not involve us is too many. I personally would rather see my own people safe and dont give a **** about a load of Afghans most of which will probably end up here anyway. Its a joke.
maninasuitcase
President
If we want to be a world player then we have responsibilities that have to be met.
Afghanistan produces most of the world's heroin, yet could supply legal morphine if encouraged to so.
I doubt there are that many Afghans trying to get to England, it's much more likely they'd flee to Pakistan and Iran.
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osymandus
Life President
It does both already the mjority of teh worlds production comes from Akganistan , theres just so much money in both trades
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