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    Default The last British combat forces leave Iraq

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/0 ... ation-iraq

    Or at least, they're preparing to leave. 4,000 will ship out by the end of May.

    I don't believe you ever should have been sent there, but thank you for going. And my condolences to the families of the 179 who never got to come home.
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    I've had better days, but I don't care! hatesfreedom's avatar
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    Default Re: The last British combat forces leave Iraq

    Come help us in Afghanistan more, it's gettin' pretty fun

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    Default Re: The last British combat forces leave Iraq

    Quote Originally posted by hatesfreedom
    Come help us in Afghanistan more, it's gettin' pretty fun

    Yes our blokes and blokesses in Helmand are having a laugh a minute.
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    Default Re: The last British combat forces leave Iraq

    Yes, because they actually joined up to get to know the locals and study rock formations, and all this killing has come as a real surprise!
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    Default Re: The last British combat forces leave Iraq

    Quote Originally posted by ivan astikov
    Yes, because they actually joined up to get to know the locals and study rock formations, and all this killing has come as a real surprise!
    Well, they can hardly say they didn't know, when they signed up, what kind of work it was going to be. But they may well have thought they were going to be, you know, protecting England and stuff. Which the Iraq War was demonstrably not about.
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    Default Re: The last British combat forces leave Iraq

    Neither is the war in Afghanistan.
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    Default Re: The last British combat forces leave Iraq

    Good for them!
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    Default Re: The last British combat forces leave Iraq

    Quote Originally posted by lust4life
    Quote Originally posted by hatesfreedom
    Come help us in Afghanistan more, it's gettin' pretty fun
    Yes our blokes and blokesses in Helmand are having a laugh a minute.
    I'm sure they are, war is a pretty good time for a professional soldier. You should be thanking us for giving your country the opportunity to veteran up its armed forces.

    Quote Originally posted by OneCentStamp
    Well, they can hardly say they didn't know, when they signed up, what kind of work it was going to be. But they may well have thought they were going to be, you know, protecting England and stuff. Which the Iraq War was demonstrably not about.
    Right because the majority of Englands wars have been about protecting England, and oh wait.. the US and England can't not fight together, it's just what we do.

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