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"utterly disgraceful"

not content with a illegal war,the mod then sends out our soldiers without enough equipment to defend themselves
this case of the soldier who died because he had to give up his equipment is beyond belief,and if it brings down the government it wont nearly be enough justice.

Has she now? First I've heard of it. No, to pull out now would leave things just as bad as when we found them, no worse even because at least under Saddam there was a government that prevented anarchy.

We stay for a year or two more and get the country back on its feet, turn it over to its people then walk away.

The whole Iraq war is a sham. The Government should bring our boys back and let America sort out its own mess. Even the Queen keeps asking Tony Blair to bring our troops back but he wont listen.

Hoon always was a monkey.

I was watching a debate on news 24 last night, it came to the conclusion that Hoon was being set up as Blair's scapegoat, to take all the heat for Iraq, before being fired as Blair washes his hands of the whole thing (in theory).
They even referred to him as Blair's 'human shield'.

Ironic really, That his career will be sacrificed by our government, who refuse to protect him as it's not in their own interests.
I guess he'll learn his lesson.

I think that it was a tragic, and avoidable loss of life. Should Hoon resign, well, i don't know, i'm not privy to all the facts. Either way, big mistakes were made, in other areas as well as the logistics, that i hope will be learned from.

can someone tell me when the defence budget became the attack budget,someone should call trades description people

He was shot in the chest, blue on blue. Sorry if someone's already said it.

Wow, I feel really safe knowing that.

Far too little actually.

At one point last year out air force was at 35% readiness. That really is staggeringly bad.

Too much tax payers money is wasted on bloody 'defence'.