The Camel
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I am 100% against our involvement over there, but this is the most outrageous comparison I could think of.
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Five die in Afghanistan.
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I am 100% against our involvement over there, but this is the most outrageous comparison I could think of.
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HawkTheSeagull
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Awful - losing 1 member of armed forces is wrong, to lose 5 in something like this is a tragedy - thoughts go out to their friends and family. This isnt a time for politics or getting 1 over another person.
Bill Cassidy's tie up
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I am totally stunned can not believe anyone would post that. Jamie was funny he just needs euthanasia painfully
Leekbrookgull
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Actually,i think the first reply to my original post came back as something like'RESPECT no,R-i-P certainly ?
BadFish
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RIP - I hope they are not your mates.
HawkTheSeagull
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Missed that, saying he has no respect for soldiers who protect our country - at least it comes across like that.....classy.
Leekbrookgull
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I could be wrong ? No doubt a moderater can check it. Like many just can't see why we need to be there.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the deaths of five UK Service personnel following a Lynx helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
The crash happened during a routine flight in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, on 26 April 2014. Three of the servicemen were from the Army Air Corps, based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire. One was a Royal Air Force serviceman also based at RAF Odiham. One was a member of the Army Reserve from 3 Military Intelligence Battalion, based in London.
Commander Joint Helicopter Command, Major General Richard Felton, said:
"It is with great sadness that we must confirm that five UK Service personnel have been killed in this incident which, at this early stage, would appear to have been a tragic accident.
"Events like this, whilst mercifully rare, remind us of the risks our personnel face in their work in Afghanistan as we approach the conclusion of the combat mission later this year. Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those who have lost their lives."
The next of kin of all the servicemen have been informed.
The crash happened during a routine flight in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, on 26 April 2014. Three of the servicemen were from the Army Air Corps, based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire. One was a Royal Air Force serviceman also based at RAF Odiham. One was a member of the Army Reserve from 3 Military Intelligence Battalion, based in London.
Commander Joint Helicopter Command, Major General Richard Felton, said:
"It is with great sadness that we must confirm that five UK Service personnel have been killed in this incident which, at this early stage, would appear to have been a tragic accident.
"Events like this, whilst mercifully rare, remind us of the risks our personnel face in their work in Afghanistan as we approach the conclusion of the combat mission later this year. Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those who have lost their lives."
The next of kin of all the servicemen have been informed.
The Truth
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Anyone who's chosen to use words such as 'Vile' and 'Scum' on a thread like this needs to chuck themselves off a cliff!
Look in the mirror you bunch of fools, you might just recognise your reflection! Have some respect and stop with the disgusting language on a thread remembering the dead.
Innocent people die and so do soldiers. Let's remember them all, not just the ones who've got guns!
Look in the mirror you bunch of fools, you might just recognise your reflection! Have some respect and stop with the disgusting language on a thread remembering the dead.
Innocent people die and so do soldiers. Let's remember them all, not just the ones who've got guns!
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Shropshire Seagull
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Oh no! Saying it has been reported as an accident will get [MENTION=12292]The Truth[/MENTION] and [MENTION=20045]hybrid_x[/MENTION] on here saying that's just a cover up and the CT is that the Taliban downed it but the MOD don't want to give them the credit .....
Edit: And RIP goes without saying - not only were these people doing their jobs, but they were also following orders, like all military personnel do.
The Truth
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Same goes for the terrorist, cartels, gangsters and anyone else who's involved in organised crime. RIP.
hybrid_x
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- Jun 28, 2011
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how can anyone deem it "respectable" to be "just doing their job" when flying a military helicopter over rural areas that pose no threat to anyone. personal insults as replies show you have nothing intelligent to offer.
do you know how many Afghans have died in Afghanistan V how many "british" soldiers have died there?
You started "just doing there job" crap - so i made that comment look foolish - keep up your patiotism and nationism - you only serve to help the banks and corporations.....but that might take some reading.
KZNSeagull
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It is you that has nothing intelligent to offer. I suggest that you go away.
hybrid_x
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death is appalling, war for corps and banks is appalling, having military aircraft bomb civilians is appalling.....
...then somone on this thread makes out it is respectable because they are just "doing there job"
sorry, but that is nonsense - and unfortunately what i said was objective truth, and it's not as if i condone either job ffs.
so - what i see in this thread is people thinking its ok to bomb civilians in a peaceful area of the world - if following orders - as they are english, but if they are middle eastern or german, then it is a massive problem.
you are prejudice and racist.
ps - i know people who have lost people too - it hurts - and these were people who did not sign their life up to "train as a killing machine ready for war." ....errr, volunteering for this "career" sort of sits in the death arena compared to a being a postman dont ya think? What do you think they are doing there? Planting f00king flowers? No, marching around with guns and a killing machines.
Protecting what threat to the UK - errr, none, zilch.
Benefiting what in the UK? The stock markets, economy, mega-corps, national power base.
hybrid_x
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- Jun 28, 2011
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i beg to differ - your post above contains no opinion, fact, or narrative....and fails to answer the question you quoted.
you sound a bit like a child - "go away, you have different views from me - i want an internet forum where everyone agrees with me."
Let me ask you a simple question to see if any cogs are turning in there, do YOU think the poor souls who died deserve respect "simply because they were doing their job and following orders?"
hybrid_x
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- Jun 28, 2011
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Can i ask you one question to help clear something up for me?
Please note I fully appreciate pain and hurt, and have worked with it in it's many guises - but can you please enlighten me with one thing?
Because one has witnessed the pain of one group of people, and not the other (in this case lets say, Iraqi and Afghan families of dead civilians due to British forces) - does this make the pain you have witnessed objectively more painful than the other?
I am going with a "no" - but I really want someone to explain to me how we seem to have a thread full of Yes's.
ps if you want to insult or be angry (ironically the roots of much war and death) pm me as not to clog the thread up.
KZNSeagull
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My opinion is that you should keep yours to yourself on a thread like this. You are clearly not intelligent enough to realise that yourself, so you need to be told.
hybrid_x
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answer the question.
it's because of respect for human life (be it loss of soldiers thro neadless war, civilians bombed, or heroin addiction) that posts like this become oh so relevant in a thread like this.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24919056
http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053
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KZNSeagull
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Respect is earned. It takes an intelligent person to know when to keep quiet. All you are earning is contempt.
lawros left foot
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You really do have an overblown sense of your own intelligence, don't you? I wonder if you really understand that a highly offensive post like yours, comparing young service personnel, with Nazi concentration camp guards, is possibly the most abhorrent comment that I ever read on here, and if you were intelligent, instead of a nasty minded keybiard warrior, then your argument would be far more credible, but as it is , your previous posts must border on the delusioal rantings of someone with mental health problems, therefore I will pity you rather than condemn you