"Jim, I have only expressed 3 views about WW1."
That is a blatant lie
You have claimed that soldiers went willingly and knew what they were fighting for.
When facts were produced to the contrary, you denied them to the extent to calling veterans who said otherwise "liars".
You claimed that the 14 aspects of recruiting that you were given were my inventions.
You claimed that the "It'll be all over by Christmas" was another of my inventions
You'll be telling us next that your only making the claims you have because "somebody told me to say it" - oh, too late, you already have!!
Personally, I don't give a shit one way or the other whether the war was well led (though it transpires that it wasn't)
It was an obscene war for European political and economic domination for which millions of young lives were sacrificed.
Just thought you'd like a reminder of one of your postings
"There are a lot of programmes coming up you will seriously want to avoid!"
Hee-hee-hee.
By the way - Kitchener was such an embarrassment to the British establishment that there where accusations flying around at the time, still given credence in some quarters that the ship the Orkneys in which he drowned, was deliberately sunk to put him out of harms way.
Blackadder's Stephen Fry look-alike had it just about right - a military bully and buffoon.
Now please stop polluting this forum with your dishonesty
Jim Carroll