Originally Posted by Accyexplorer (Post 1134891)

.....It may well be "shi-ite" as you say but (like it or not) it's a opinion I'm entitled to.

Bought with the sacrifices of those military you are presently slating

The fact he's a prince is irrelevant and like I've already said the lad deserve's (a little) respect for serving his country.

And having snide digs is respect is it?

"ragheads" with the equivalent of peashooters..

AK47's & RPG are the standard for terrorists & various military forces throughout the world, hardly " peashooters"

I apologise if my finding the fact he is killing "ragheads" as a participant in an a (illegal) war disgusting.

Your opinion, fine, but somewhere you mentioned having relatives & friends in the military, so by your logic you'd sooner have them as casualties than the likes of Jihadi John & his ilk?

but, I know blowing stuff to pieces, killing folk, and generally trying to prove you've the biggest Richard isn't the best way to make them "ragheads" reconsider their position.

9/11, 7/7, Boston bombing, decapitation of aid workers & innocent civilians from aid convoys helping displaced peoples & refugee "ragheads".

Take a moment and think how many "ragheads" lives our boys have made a living hell by blowing 'their' relatives to pieces.

Believe me I have,(added to that I've also been there & done the job). Until you've walked a mile in these lads shoes & been where they've been you're better keeping your student outrage & liberal hand wringing, British self loathing attitude shelved! Until you've lived the life & seen the reality first hand your opinion is worthless.

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 1134899)

This is just my opinion mind, same as you, I believe I'm entitled to have my tuppence worth. (But mines backed with actual experience)

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1134906)

The clown that started this thread, wouldn't in my opinion,know a fact if it smacked him in the kisser,:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer (Post 1134913)

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.

If you bothered to research, you would see the beginings of Bin Laden's animosity towards the west, dates back yo the Iraq Invasion Of Kuwait in 1990 and the Saudi Royal family prefering American and Allied support rather than Bin Laden's Mujahideen. This resulted in Bin Laden, eventually, taking refuge in Afghanistan and issuing a Fatwa in 1998 quote:

The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies—civilians and military—is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and the holy mosque [in Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah, 'and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together,' and 'fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah'

The turning point was the attacks on 9/11(and please don't try to explain them as a false flag or otherwise, you will lose that arguement), this resulted in combat operations in Afghanistan and later Iraq

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 :eek:

SO how do you explain how the Afghan Mujahideen managing to give the Soviet Red Army a bloody nose during the 1980's?

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....
Modicum.......to me ANYONE who serves in our's or our allies armed forces, derserves our upmost respect.
.....Take a life to save a life? I don't buy it,i'd sooner have my relatives & friends around me, is that too much to ask?.
I am sure most if not all of our armed forces would rather be at home with their families.

Your (more than) entitled to have your "tuppence worth" 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" is wearing a bit on the thin side.

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer (Post 1134913)

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 :eek:

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

Originally Posted by Less (Post 1134943)

You do realise you've just wasted a great deal of red ink?