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We must refuse to be the armchair generals cheering young people all the way to the graveyard
By Ryan Bridgewater The vast majority of people have sympathy for the young men who are returning home in body bags with their futures cruelly curtailed. Many also recognise the…
Happy Armed Forces Day
UK fatalities Iraq: 179 UK fatalities Afghanistan: 374 US fatalities Iraq: 4463 US fatalities Afghanistan: 1663 Iraqi fatalities: 100,000+ (perhaps as high as a million) Afghan fatalities: 10,000+ (No…