Mike G wrote:
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> "Fred" <Fred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Mike G wrote:
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>>> "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "OM ****VA!108" <grimus108@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/01/royalsandthemedia.military1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Working out british bastard 1-2-3 anger on the Pasthtun does not
make
>>>>> the little **** a hero - it just gives the silly tosser some rather
>>>>> nasty karma to have to deal with in future.
>>>>
>>>> Master James Hewitt may be a bit of a b******d, but there is no need
>>>> for language like that!
>>>
>>> I agree.
>>> And I don't understand why there is so much animosity directed
>>> against him.
>>> He is not responsible for his parentage, any more than he is
>>> responsible for the way he is treated by the media, and for the
>>> decision to bring him home.
>>> IMO he's the victim of his cir***stances. Not the perpetrator.
>>> Mike.
>>>
>>
>> Absolutely. who would choose to be born into that situation? In a
>> goldfish bowl from the word go!
>
> I get the impression that all he wants is a relatively normal life. Not
> that he's ever going to be allowed to, but you can't blame the guy for
> trying.
> The media will never permit it. They're too interested in selling
> newspapers, and as long as there are people who feel they have a need to
> know what every x y z celebrity is up to at any or all the time, they'll
> continue feeding them with every piece of gossip or tittle tattle they
> can unearth about them. Regardless of the affect it might have on the
> individual concerned.
I would quite like to know what the casualty rate has been for the
"front line base" he was deployed to. If the casualty rate has been and
remains much lower than the average for front line bases, then we know
it is even more a PR stunt than ever. I got the figure of 1 in 6
returning killed or injured, from somewhere, for such forward
deployments. But I can't find where..
I assume that, all the time he has been out there, there has been the
genuine trained forward air controller sat kicking his heels waiting for
Harry to be pulled out when it got a bit hairy or he got fed up playing
at soldiers...or it needed someone really skilled and expeienced to do
the job.
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Sue
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