War Pigs

[fedsron2us]

Troops in Afghanistan were fighting for "the future of Britain", David Miliband said today, after eight soldiers were killed in 24 hours.

The foreign secretary said it was essential to stop Afghanistan becoming an "incubator for terrorism" and a launchpad for attacks on the UK and other countries.

His comments came after one of the bloodiest days in the campaign, which took the total number of British deaths in Afghanistan to 184, five more than the total from the Iraq conflict. Five of the latest casualties were killed in a single bomb blast while on foot patrol.

Miliband said it had been a "grievous few days" for the families of those who had been killed, for the army, and for the whole country.

"We know that they are engaged in a very, very difficult mission and we have a responsibility to engage the country in understanding that mission and supporting it," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

"This is about the future of Britain because we know that the badlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan ; that border area ; have been used to launch terrible attacks, not just on the United States, but on Britain as well.

Lying scumbag.

If the Taliban in Afghanistan represents a threat to the 'future of Britain' then we ought to have placed the whole economy on a war footing, introduced conscription and be looking to have a half million man army in the field.

Of course, Milliband knows he has no hope of selling that sort of war to the public so what we get instead is crocodile tears over dead soldiers whose lives along with uncounted Afghans have essentially been sacrificed so Brown and Milliband can suck up to the US administration and pretend that they are 'world leaders' fighting for freedom and democracy (with the aid of CCTV and ID cards). Continuing a pointless conflict for these bogus reasons just shows the complete moral bankruptcy of our political class.

[Nihil]

1. Sad but true.

> so what we get instead is crocodile tears over dead soldiers whose lives
> along with uncounted Afghans have essentially been sacrificed so Brown and
> Milliband can suck up to the US administration and pretend that they are
> 'world leaders' ...

:-(