[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

Watching (all be it, on the news etc) our lads/lasses (inc relatives & friends) fighting an dying, in a war we should never have been involved in, just leaves a sour/bitter taste in my mouth and I will never support their artifice.

Well bully for you mate! It's nice to have morals & standards to laud about, only your right to this opinion & dogmatic belief has been secured for you by ........ ?

To me, it seems reasonable to say that those fighters who are fighting with rusty (antiquated) weapons and minimal protection are braver than the average British soldier and their multi million pound weapons arsenal

If they're so damned brave, why do they hide behind women, kids & old people? Why don't they put on a uniform so they can be identified as a combatant instead of skulking about & cravenly planting IED's, which kill indiscriminately?

Anyhow,it is fair that our military be treated with a modicum of respect,so i won't comment any further on this thread after this....

If you wish to give our military the respect they deserve don't open your fool mouth & spout your ignorant comments.

i'd sooner have my relatives & friends around me, is that too much to ask?.

Don't you think the families of the troops on the ground aren't filled with the same desire? But they, along with most right thinking folk understand the vagaries of service life & as such bear the hardships with the understanding, that whatever their loved ones are doing is out of necessity & not choice.

Your (more than) entitled to have your "tuppence worth"

You're damned right I am, I've paid my dues to the country & it's people, even those who despised me & my comrades for trying to make the world a better & safer place & if that has to be done by force of arms then so be it.

but,with all due respect, the old "your comment is worthless" unless you've "been there & done","Until you've walked a mile in these lads shoes" & "been where they've been"

Really Fella? If you wanted your car fixing would you go to some young college graduate studying philosophy to get it fixed? Or you're bleeding badly, I'm sure you'd get the opinion of a parking attendant instead of a qualified doctor or nurse! So whose comments carry the more worth here then?

is wearing a bit on the thin side.

Much like your tedious & annoying simplistic student illogical ideological prattle

Once again, your naivety & simplistic ignorance of facts & an understanding of how nasty the big wide world can really be shines through unadulterated. Still, as you're no longer intending to comment on this misbegotten thread you started, we should at least be thankful for small mercies!