I would be surprised if he said that to be honest, especially with such a huge fanbase within the forces, (well they did when I was in, you couldn't walk down a barracks corridor without hearing Champagne SuperNova).
Perhaps the papers/media have twisted what he did say? Noooooo of course not they wouldn't dream of it.
And if he did say it? Well although he has no right to say it and that it was misdirected I do think that now and then a very few certain individuals play on it a bit much.
Although my main beef is with some family's when their loved ones fall in battle. Some of the crap that certain family's flood the papers with does a real disservice to the persons memory and what they were fighting for.
It should be noted that in the same so called rant he apparantly slagged off Blair and his fake war, shouldn't we be applauding that?
I just hope Noel doesnt get all Geldoff or U2 and start out on the pop-politics road.