By the way - i've played Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare at a reasonable level.

The lad is out there doing the job he's trained for. Incidentally don't underestimate his role; hes an FAC (Forward Air Controller) that means he will be hidden in the mountains calling air raids and laser targeting the bombing raids. Its a very dangerous job.

When he's doing he FAC work there will not be a TV crew with him, that will all be back at base stuff mixed in with the odd patrol. The lad is out there taking the incoming fire with his troop, for that alone he deserves respect.

I concur

[quote="Mr I]When he's doing he FAC work there will not be a TV crew with him, that will all be back at base stuff mixed in with the odd patrol. The lad is out there taking the incoming fire with his troop, for that alone he deserves respect.[/quote]

I concur too

I like the Star's headline - When Harry met Tali

Why does the suspiciously ginger haired son of Charles "the tampon" Windsor deserve respect for targeting bombs on somebody else's country? I can understand ordinary lads who need a job joining the army but if this spoilt little royal got hurt I'd only be crying about the avalanche of fawning crap in the papers and on the telly that we'd have to put up with.

Whatever his parentage and whatever your opinion on this war, Harry is out there getting some blood on his medals. When you've done what he's done and experienced what he's experiencing then perhaps you might have the right to comment and criticise. Your remarks about his getting hurt are contemptuous. The lad is a young British soldier out there walking the walk and fighting the people who are involved in blowing up parts of this country.

i am just in the process of calling him back now
bloody press every where

When exactly did anybody from Afghanistan blow up parts of this country? I thought the home of Al Quaida was Saudi Arabia while the British muslims who were involved in bomb plots had family ties to Pakistan. How is he getting blood on his medals by guiding planes to bomb people? Does the blood splash that far? I thought medals were for ceremonial wear, do they wear them for combat now? Why do I have to go and fight in a war to have an opinion about a war or the royals?

If he was an ordinary British soldier and got hurt I'd have a lot of sympathy despite thinking all our "military actions" (you can't call them wars) since the 50s have been wrong. He isn't though, his involvement is a stunt to help to rehabilitate his family.

It is a tradition in the Royal family that they do some service in the armed forces. The lad had little choice - but to his credit didn't take a soft option (the navy for example) but chose the army. He could have ducked active service on security grounds - but he didn't. You may not like the royals, & may not agree with the war, but he is doing just the same as "those ordinary lads who need a job" - but he could have chosen not too - AND DIDN'T

Did you forget to change persona then Dibbs?

You sound an awful lot like "Man from the Hills" - & you do have previous

Either an obvious wind up or both are completely ignorant and brain dead. Either way, they're not worth an indepth response.

I don't happen to agree with either of these wars actually but Harry is there as a young officer not as a royal. Furthermore, his being brought home will have pissed him right off.

The lad is out there doing a very dangerous job that he's been trained to do and I fail to see why you are slagging him off.

I to at first thought good on him for sticking to his guns, so to speak......

but then thought what if......................

Royal in army whats to go to iraq with mates told no
royal sulks around gettin pissed....

"The Firm" say to royal, look what we will do is sneek you out there, tell "british press" news black out .....

then after ten to twelve weeks we will get our mates over the pond to blab it and will pull you back for security reasons..

win win, you come back a hero, can get pissed as much as you want like other squaddies, we can blame the yanks, but as its not iraq they won't mind and blame a hack on an interwebby thing.

now young royal what do you think about that, also if you get home sick we can get you back sooner.....

you see how many secret missions are discovered by reporters and splashed all over the headlines......?
if the armed forces can't keep a secret then we could be in trouble.........

Is that you Wolfy...? sorry, Citizen Smith?

I was slagging him off, he deserves it. After his SS uniform "pranks" and general posh drunk antics we're supposed to be daft enough to love him because he visits Afghanistan. Couldn't be part of an attempt to rehabilitate his family could it?

Now I'd like MrI to answer the questions I asked him earlier, particularly -When did any Afghan bomb any part of this country? What does getting blood on his medals mean? Does the gore splash a long way after Harry directs the bombers? Are medals for everyday use/combat wear now? They used to be ceremonial. Why do you have to have fought in a war to have an opinion?

Don't accuse me of being the same person as Nobody's Hero. I rarely post as i just have a look to see what other Poolies think about football but it gets hard to ignore the dubious, right wing, ex-squaddy nonsense. I should have replied to the racist Paul Ince "joke" Mr I posted but was short of time. If I was to name myself after an SLF LP it would be Inflammable Material (cue ill founded allegations of IRA sympathies).

Such is my cynicism for all things media these days I can't believe this is real.
IF it is then absolute respect to him,on remembrance day I was talking to a guy from dawlish who had lost a son who was a marine in Iraq and another of his sons was due to go out to afghanistan the following week,he was very proud of his boys and felt they were doing the right thing.
I have my views on the war but I couldn't look the guy in the face and argue my point then so all I'll say is if anyone has the bollocks to do it then we should show them some respect.

Let's be honest, no matter what he did, you wouldn't approve, would you. Not so much a debate, more a political pamphlet.

his father (the real one) would be proud

Nonsense! The left fought fascism in Spain and fully participated in WW2 as well. Appeasement was very much a moderate thing and lots of the British right were ambivalent on Hitler. After the attacks on anti-fascists at the BUF rally at Olympia the daily Mail ran the headline "Hurrah For The Blackshirts". If you're looking for German/Nazi sympathies in British history look at the House of Hanover/Windsor!

Imagine if say the Battle of Britain was being fought now....The BBC would insist it treated both sides equally and their Berlin correspondent would give that nice Mr Hitler the opportunity to put across the German point of view. Various commentators would be appearing on the radio condemming the government for declaring war on Germany, while injury lawyers would be rushing to court to lodge claims for personal injury from German bombing....HEALTH AND SAFETY would be going ballistic and banning pilots from flying has they'd already exceeded their flying hours for the month...The RAF's response to the German attacks was delayed while a risk assessmnt and COSSH analysis was done on the explosives used in the weapons.
Dunkirk would have been a flop because gross overcrowding on the little ships meant they were not allowed to participate and impounded. But it was all a waste of time, as the army at Dunkirk had been ordered to surrender as their fighting in the dunes was disturbing the nesting sites of the local wading birds.
At home. rioting breaks out as shortages of tatto ink,hair gel and sun bed tubes run out, offers of rationed tanning lotion fail to calm peoples fears ......

My Grandad was in a prisoner of war camp and I asked him what it was like...................



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