It's Time to Bring Our Soldiers Home ; More Than 200 British Soldiers Have Been Killed in Afghanistan and It Looks Inevitable the Number Will Rise. Keith Davis Argues It's Time the Government Changed Its Approach and Brought Our Troops Home

Western Daily Press › August 19, 2009

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Repeated press images of dead British soldiers being repatriated after having been blown up in Afghanistan have destroyed any credibility the British Government may have thought it had for persisting with its ill-advised and ill-fated military occupation of that country.

The conflict there is proving just as unpopular as the one in Iraq, to the extent that the Whitehall war machine has had to resort to more desperate scaremongering about the bogeymen of Al-Qaida and the Taliban, and their alleged potential long-range threat to the UK.

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It's Time to Bring Our Soldiers Home ; More Than 200 British Soldiers Have Been Killed in Afghanistan and It Looks Inevitable the Number Will Rise. Keith Davis Argues It's Time the Government Changed Its Approach and Brought Our Troops Home

After the public hectoring by Gordon Brown - to the effect that it is our "patriotic duty" to support our troops abroad (hence effectively condoning the fighting) - and the parroting of these comments soon afterwards by Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth had ...

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