Behind the Lines

clipped from www.channel4.com NOTAREARGUNNER on 03 February 2010 at 11:55

Irrespective of how the families of service personnel think, this expose reveals the lies that British and American politician perpetrate. I soldiered all my life and if young enough would be with our troops, not because the WAR is right, but because I loved the work. If the viewer does not like the truth they should get onto that Lying Blair and Brown. From the very outset, political avoidance of truth has and is endemic. When everyone regales about the lack of helicopter cover, the most damning silence is the issuing of the SA80 assault weapon. Which amateur ever bought that toy with it ineffectual ammunition is treachery in its utmost. Every single news reel shows infantrymen standing, sitting just outside of the weapons range making the infantry section spectators in their own deaths. With its predecessors the 7.62, at least the section could function properly and become a close deterrent. But No! We have to follow the Americans and use their ammunition, a legacy of the ill-fated Vietnam war. The most poignant statement I can recall was a weapons expert who said, "I cannot categorically state that the AK47 won the Vietnam War. What I can say is the AR15, the Armalite helped America to loose it." Well done Channel 4 and Dispatches. Your programme showed in an hour what I have written about for the past 30 years. You do not have to have my experience. All you need is to apply a little common sense. When the Taliban chief said the Russians were more dangerous and more powerful than the American, he was talking factually from HIS experiences, irrespective of the riposte that it was just propaganda to lower the moral of Western Troops. I heard these arguments for years in Rhodesian and Angola. The only true valuers of such statements are the protagonists.
Well done the troops, heroes still led by donkeys.