nigegilb
'Poorly defended inflatable boats'???? But surely they had their SA80 rifles to use against the heavy machine guns on the several Iranian boats!!!
I'm very glad that they are home, having co-operated and done whatever was needed to make sure that they stay alive and come home to their families.
This government needs to wake up to the fact that we are in a 'war' that is never ever going to be won. Just look at the reaction and the glee of the Iraqi locals over the very recent loss in Basra. And this is a place in Iraq that is supposed to be more friendly to UK forces.
Every single day, there are innocent Iraqi civilians having limbs blown off, losing loved ones (and thus creating martyrs) and we are meant to be helping!! Almost every day you hear of a coalition soldier being killed, or wounded. This is a mess, a nightmare and it's simply not going to get better.
We have screwed up the Middle East and let them down so many times in the last century. Now we fight Bushs' war. I can see no end.