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Our War - BBC3

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Girvan Loyal 1690, Jun 8, 2011.

  1. Girvan Loyal 1690

    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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  2. Hash.

    Hash. pure daycent

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    should never have been out there dozy ****s <ok>
     
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  3. Girvan Loyal 1690

    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    They dont decide where they go you daft ****
     
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  4. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    sword wants to live in a world where everyone travels by horse and cart and there's no tv, computers, playstations etc.
     
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  5. MrT

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    You got to give it to the taliban - they know how keep their women in check.

    <henpecked>
     
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    Fife is thataway! <ok> <laugh>
     
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  7. Zico

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    I have the utmost respect for anyone who serves with our armed forces.
    It's just a shame that they are used as puppets in a Global initiative to keep America supplied with oil. As to why they are in Afghanistan - I haven't the faintest idea.
     
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  8. Rorschach

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    all the guys are heroes! it must be a ****ing hard job knowing some friendly rag head might have a bomb strapped to them.
    i have nothing but the highest respect for them!
     
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  9. Mick

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    From watching shows like that you have the feeling they are pawns in something out of their control - but then who's fault are these things?

    What irritates me about modern war by a western state is the plausible deniability. It isn't the soldiers fault they are put in a **** situation as they are just doing their job. It isn't the politicians fault as they have a mandate and support within the public. Half of the public say it isn't their fault because they didn't want to go to war. The other half say it's the 'rag heads' fault for whatever they did. Basically no one taking responsibility for hundreds of thousands of deaths over the past decade, who were someones or somethings fault - and we are to feel sympathy for everyone but the dead victims.
     
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  10. Bollocks

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    I'm a soldier.

    Thanks for the support, guys

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  11. AsprillasFurCoat

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    It was always a fools errand trying to 'tame' Afghanistan - we could occupy it for 100 years and still everything would soon revert to type as soon as we left. What I found confusing about the programme (excellent, by the way) was that this British outpost was in a town in the middle of nowhere, where all the civilian population had left, and the troops knew exactly which parts of the town were under Taliban control. Seeing as how there were no civvies to cause collateral damage, I couldn't understand why the RAF/USAF didn't just flatten the place. (Well maybe not the USAF, they would've no doubt killed all the British Soldiers by mistake).
     
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