Thank you, The Rocket, - at last some words of sense to counterbalance the utter tosh spouted by the camo-yoof earlier!
Goodness, by the sound of it you're bŁoody welcome to the RAF of the future. The one I joined existed mainly to defend our shores and to provide a deterrent to aggression - not to go around the world hanging on Bush's coat tails playing the role of underfunded world policeman.
Notice how Trust-me-Tone used every means at his disposal to stifle free speech at the recent Noo Liarbour conference - so that the question "OK, you lying ba$tard, when the hell are we quitting that desert $hit hole called Iraq?" was never raised.....