The hidden cost of Afghanistan

clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk Blood and bravery on the table: inside military hospital Camp Bastion Bastion’s military hospital has transformed itself since British troops set up base here in 2006, developing from an ad hoc collection of tents into one of the world’s busiest trauma hospitals, treating 623 patients in the past three weeks alone. More than half of these have been British soldiers, the rest a combination of International Security Assistance Force troops, Afghan soldiers and civilians.

Hospital figures are quoted as British casualties on over 100 per week.
Stop playing games, Mr Brown and stop this insidious slaughter of British youth.
The long term injuries are never adequately dealt with and a few years after your successor takes office, all your mealy mouthed assurances will have been forgotten. Does anyone remember the victims of the Abercorn bombing, the Enniskillen murders or the thousands of injured in the politically lost war against the Ira?