Harry in Basra

[bill]

As the Saw Doctors song goes "Me Heart is Livin' in the Sixties Still"

[general jack o'niell]

see these young yins, when i served in thesecond war we didnae complain boot oor underwear, surely harry is only going over there for six months, i was three years in the desert wae monty and take fae me thon heat certainly left my basra

[bill]

So that's it then,he's naw gan.

That's a slap in the face for the relatives of all the servicemen/women who have been killed in Iraq.

"Prince Harry will not deploy with his regiment to Iraq, the head of the Army has said. General Sir Richard Dannatt said that he had taken the decision in the light of a number of "specific threats" "

[peenkles21]

I dont think it is, imho there would be more casualties if he did go.

[ionnsaigh]

His high highness hooray Harry- wants to go to kill Iraqi
Basra bound battle hard Harry- sniff the coke and drive Ferrari
a party boy that's our Harry- punch panic paper paparazzi
army antics aim your gun -stay at home have more fun
nice naughty Nazi neat an clean-want to drive killing machine
never mind harry you cost a lot-serving soldiers can be bought.

[general jack o'niell]

too clever by half


keep it simple


to iraq i'd go, they say i cannie
so feck yis aw, the queens my granny

short and to the point and it doesn't take hours to ponder over

how many words for thon high coo thingy?

[Hadrians hiring!]

In days of not so old, all the gimps in the Army would have died for their prince, king etc - now they whine like scared puppies '' ooh, it would make it more dangerous'' - twats!


Personally I would have been quite happy to see him go, if he got topped no big deal, everyone on the line to the throne would just move up a place so you wouldnt really have lost anything.

[Malky]

I don't think the final decision was all to do with the danger to Prince Harry personally, but the fact that all those around him would be placed in greater danger too. There would be a massive stepping up of attacks just to try and get the prince and the propaganda that would go with killing or capturing him.

So, I think the advantages of letting him serve are vastly outweighed by the disadvantages. I also think that this has all arisen because of the vast amount of publicity in the media. If they had kept quiet about it things may have been different. Saying where he was going in Iraq, what vehicle he would be in etc was just asking for trouble.

Malky