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Old 22nd Sep 2006, 17:17
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flash8
 
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well this comes on the back of another... "Captain Leo Docherty was so unhappy with operations in Helmand province he quit the British Army last month"

"Capt Docherty described the campaign as "grotesquely clumsy" and said the British were no different to US forces by bombing and strafing villages."

Two in Two months. Whilst some here (the ones whom have only ever seen one kind of theatre in their lives, the acting kind) seem keen to dismiss these guys, from experience I know to stick ones neck out is a brave thing to do, and commands some respect.

I'm as patriotic as the next guy, but implicitly vilifying these officers for having the guts to speak out, is to me incomprehensible.
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