@forumhostpb wrote:
It’s really sad that the whole issue has become tainted or clouded by politics … but this is the reality we live with.
The plain fact is that if Lt. Fred Bloggs (or whoever) from some town in the UK gets killed in Iraq, yes it’s a tragedy … but not one that would of itself attract world headlines, a nation in mourning, state funerals, questions in Parliament and so on and so forth
If Lt. Harry Wales got killed can you just imagine the enormous worldwide publicity that this would attract? The propaganda coup for the group that killed him would be enormous – far more so than murdering the odd 50 her and 50 there of their own countrymen or blowing up the occasional US or UK armoured vehicle.
We are led to believe that, in advance of his proposed deployment into Iraq, groups of snipers and bombers have been specifically tasked with assassinating or murdering him. If there are collateral killings (i.e. the soldiers with him) then so much the better from the Iraqi point of view.
Sending a high value target into an active war zone makes absolutely no sense at all in military or in political terms. The upside if he survived would be minimal and the downside if it went wrong simply doesn’t bear thinking about.
The big disappointment is that it took the MOD and the politicians so long to realise this and only announce their decision at the last possible moment.
Like I said. They wear camoflauge and great big helmets. How will they know it’s him? They won’t.
If he wants to go, he should be allowed to go. Whatever happened to democracy?
This is yet another step by the evil communist parliament to stop us Royalists from gaining a bit of power back that is rightfully ours.