"Wasn't the wrong sized shells you prat it was the wrong type of shell"
I'm sure that made a great difference to those who died because of the cock-up - doesn't make the slightest difference to the fact Kitchener was forced to tender his resignation (despite your attempts to exonerate him here)
What thuggery did the clown who made the cock-up bring in - the conscientious objectors who were shipped off to Europe (as you gloatingly pointed out) would have all been executed had Kitchener remained in office - as I said, he was a military thug as his earlier record indicated
"Gallant little Belgium" dispatched ten million of its colonial citizens in pursuit of rubber (over one third more than the number of Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis)
The fact that Britain should not only honour a treaty with such genocidal thugs and stay silent, then persuade British youth to give their lives in support of such a regime, using Belgian gallantry as a slogan somewhat places Keith's 'War against German tyranny in context
Belgian atrocities in the Congo took place five years before the war broke out - ample time for Britain to condemn them and review its treaty.
What exactly are you going to "love" - the fact that Britain stayed silent - the fact that they remained friends with such genocidal powers or the fact that they persuaded British youth to die defending such monsters?
Not legally obligated to object to genocide - for fuck's sake, what kind of a defence is that - do you really live in a world that does not intervene in the slaughter of ten million people - or nor even comment on it unless legally obliged to do so?
You people really are knuckles-along-the-ground morons, aren't you?
Jim Carroll