Help For Heroes, I don't think!!

[GordonA]

This from Facebook.

We have troops without proper equipment...yet we donate millions to other countries before helping our own 1st...99% of people on facebook wont have the guts to copy and repost this!!!!!!! WILL U......i thought charity began at home..

Loz copied the above, here are MY further thoughts;
The World Bank is 'lending' $600,0000 to Pakistan for 'Flood relief', whilst the coalition forces young men & women are being murdered in Afghanistan by Taliban forces,  most of whom are recruited in Pakistan, and have been infiltrating into Afghanistan by way of their easy route over the Pakistan border via Queta, which is a hot-bed of Islamic Global Domination in Pakistan, approx. 60 miles South-East of Helmand province, (Not far, is it??)  
Pakistan is also the major transport route for the very lucrative opium/heroin drugs business, which is the main 'Cash-Cow for the forces killing our military in Afghanistan, but yet, for some reason known only to these crazed Bankers, ( I hope I spelled it correctly), millions of dollars is being chucked at Pakistan in order to do what? It was stated today by Pakistan s Presiden,t that feuding warlords/tribal leaders, would become even more powerful as a result of the new infrastructure that is to be set up in order to 'distribute' this money. Our troops are struggling to defend themselves with the equipment they have, GIVE THEM THE BLOODY MONEY.


Gordy.

[Highlander]

Have copied and re-posted Gordy.

[Scunner]

We are shockingly short of weaponry even though we have been a major manufacturer for years. Sadly Thatcher sold them all to Saddam! The £1 billion of OUR money that was spent underwriting his bankrupt regime would have bought a tank or two also...

[barry44544]

Please don't cheapen my son's contribution to the tour he has
Just completed in Afghanistan.
If you think this game of words you
Seem to want to play is helping the families of our
brave boy's posted there,
It is not.

[Scunner]

Who are you directing that at Barry?

[GordonA]

Barry, as the eldest member of a Brit/Scot military family who have served in various theatres of conflict,by air, land & sea, it is,and never ever, could be my intention to cheapen the contribution of any of our very, very brave boys and girls who put their lives on the line from the moment they accept the ' Queens' Shilling'. If I have, in any way, offended the families of any of our lads and lassies participating in ANY theatre of conflict, I apologise from the very bottom of my heart.
My argument is. was, and always will be, that the western world, ( and especially, our own government, regardless of political affiliation),has a misguided idea of where loyalties lie.
My best wishes for a happy and safe return to the bosom of their families, goes out to every member of the Coalition Forces, wherever they may be.
This, by the way, is written with a huge lump in my throat, and much more than a little drop of tears, as I read of our latest casualties over there.


I think you may have misunderstood the aim of my initial thread.
Gordy.

[barry44544]

Ok Gordy point taken.
But as my son says...... the last thing you want people saying is "we've got the wrong kit"
because when your in the thick of things... there's no such thing.
Propaganda is still a very powerful weapon.... and free to use.
regards
Barry