BS: 1,000 British Soldiers desert

Subject: RE: BS: 1,000 British Soldiers desert
From: GUEST
Date: 28 May 06 - 10:12 AM

It is obvious they had the Lobotomy early in life. If they did not want to do what an Army does, they would not have signed up to begin with.

The ones without the Lobotomy knew what they were doing. Of course, some of those did not sign up.

"Well done" my Ass! How about stupid or cowards?

(same with some in the US)

Subject: RE: BS: 1,000 British Soldiers desert
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 28 May 06 - 09:47 AM

Bollocks, they are all volunteers, it's an ARMY for fucks sake not the YMCA.
If they don't like nasty guns and hard people they shouldn't have VOLUNTEERED.

eric

Subject: BS: 1,000 British Soldiers desert
From: GUEST,Mousey McConville
Date: 28 May 06 - 08:11 AM

More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted the armed forces since the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the BBC has discovered.

During 2005 alone, 377 people deserted and are still missing. So far this year another 189 are on the run.


Some 900 have evaded capture since the Iraq war started, official figures say.

        
I am approached regularly by people who are seeking to absent themselves from service
says Justin Hugheston-Roberts

It is unclear how many troops are deserting because they do not want to go to Iraq and how many are doing so because of personal reasons such as family problems, BBC world affairs correspondent Jonathan Charles says.

Lawyers who represent members of the military at courts martial say that they are increasingly being contacted by people who want advice about getting out of having to serve in Iraq, even if they do not want to go to the extreme of deserting, a BBC correspondent has found.

So not all British troops have had a lobotomy ! Well done boys.