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Offline Highlander

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When Harry met the Taliban
« on: January 23, 2013, 22:39:28 PM »
He took some of them out.

Isn't that what we sent him there to do.

I am thoroughly fed up of the criticism that fellow takes.




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Re: When Harry met the Taliban
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2013, 22:58:17 PM »
I agree H. It all seems absurd to me. Had we discovered that he'd been in a position to shoot them and someone else had done it for him there would have been an outcry about that instead. He can't win.

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Re: When Harry met the Taliban
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2013, 23:12:41 PM »
Also agreed H -

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Re: When Harry met the Taliban
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2013, 23:17:34 PM »
One of the things that upsets me the most suzzpuss is people like Jim Murphy, the shadow defence secretary, questioned the language Harry used.

Well I'm sorry Jim if Harry wasn't "on message" and didn't have his every utterance scrutinised before he was allowed to say it but you were listening to a young man who was serving the country you are an MP for. So here's a suggestion - shut the........etc etc

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Re: When Harry met the Taliban
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2013, 07:02:24 AM »
Well said all.  Couldn't have put it better myself H.

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Re: When Harry met the Taliban
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2013, 07:55:09 AM »
I really like Harry he seems a lovely and normal young man, but everything he says and does is scrutinised by the press.  Even when he is interviewed about the job he is doing he is criticised and I suspect Jim Murphy is just jumping on the press Bandwagon to get brownie points.
Leave the lad alone, it's no wonder he hates the press.

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Re: When Harry met the Taliban
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2013, 07:58:27 AM »
It wasn't long ago the criticism was that the Royals were out of touch with the rest of us. Now they are guilty of not being out of touch with the rest of us.


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Re: When Harry met the Taliban
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2013, 20:35:50 PM »
The film A Few Good Men.  Cant remember all of Jack Nicolson's speech, but it was about the people we train to protect us more than we will ever know, allow us to sleep soundly in our beds at night yet are still critisised.

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Re: When Harry met the Taliban
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2013, 20:39:12 PM »
Harry has my support




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