I'd be more inclined to believe this picture of noble brave british sodliers risking their lives for us if I hadnt met various ones over the years. most recently all of 3 weeks ago being threatened by a soldier home on leave from Iraq for the heinous crime of looking at him. His parting shot was "I risk my life in iraq to protect wankers like you", before walking off shouting at me "consider yourself lucky (that he didnt flatten me)". Complete psychpathic nutter living in South Manchester right now, before going back to Iraq and further destroying what little credibility we have with any locals who look at him wrongly. He kept going on about serving queen and country. Very proud of himself. Or sitting in Oman some years ago talking to SAS officers boasting about killing insurgents , cutting their heads off and driving round Muscat in a jeep with the heads stuck on the wings. Quite the nastiest people I have ever met in 40 years of travel. Yeah. Makes you proud to be British, Thomas and Alan. Sorry, but people who take up professions whose job description includes killing other people don't register in my file of people to respect. As for conscientious objection , Dave, there's an RAF Medical Officer about to be Court Martialled for refusing to go to Iraq because he feels the war is illegal. Should be interesting. Apparently the military still hasnt got the hang of conscientious objection. They regard it as a criminal offence.

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