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Thread ID: 139011	2015-02-23 10:35:00	John Keye should go to Iraq	mzee (3324)	PC World Chat

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1394956	2015-02-26 07:14:00	After spending 27 years in defence I had to laugh today when I heard the news that people sent were volunteers and anyone who didn't want to go would have no career repercussions. I have seen it before people who did not want to go as helicopter mechanics to the Sinai and Timor island they got buggerised big time and had to leave.	prefect (6291)
1394957	2015-02-26 21:21:00	After spending 27 years in defence I had to laugh today when I heard the news that people sent were volunteers and anyone who didn't want to go would have no career repercussions. I have seen it before people who did not want to go as helicopter mechanics to the Sinai and Timor island they got buggerised big time and had to leave. And rightly so. They, completely of their own free will, decided upon a career in the Military and then when there is a little action they don’t want to know about it. Did they think the military was a holiday camp with free travel and the chance to play with “Big Boys Toys.” :confused: I’m sure they were told very early in the peace that at some part of their career they were likely to witness shots fired in anger. Bottom line, you don't need that type in your team.	B.M. (505)
1394958	2015-02-26 21:35:00	And rightly so. They, completely of their own free will, decided upon a career in the Military and then when there is a little action they don’t want to know about it. Did they think the military was a holiday camp with free travel and the chance to play with “Big Boys Toys.” :confused: I’m sure they were told very early in the peace that at some part of their career they were likely to witness shots fired in anger. Bottom line, you don't need that type in your team. Quite right! If you join the army you are expected to kill, or be killed, so the choice is yours to join or not. In my case I was conscripted, I had no choice.	mzee (3324)
1394959	2015-02-26 21:37:00	I don't think you have portrayed a very accurate representation with your attachment. An account balance selected at any random quarter doesn't say bugger all for cashflow, unpaid dividends (although I will admit I'm not sure how these are handled in a gov account balance) or general economy growth. I think you should take a good look at the Current Account balance sheet I posted. It is not random and if you read the top Header it is carefully explained. Cashflow, no matter where, counts for nothing if there is a deficit at the end of it. The bottom line is we are digging a deeper and deeper hole and having to borrow more and more to meet our obligations. Most people know you can't borrow your way out of debt, but the Government apparently doesn't. As for a Rock-Star economy. :lol: :tui:	B.M. (505)
1394960	2015-02-26 22:10:00	I think you should take a good look at the Current Account balance sheet I posted. It is not random and if you read the top Header it is carefully explained. Cashflow, no matter where, counts for nothing if there is a deficit at the end of it. The bottom line is we are digging a deeper and deeper hole and having to borrow more and more to meet our obligations. Most people know you can't borrow your way out of debt, but the Government apparently doesn't. As for a Rock-Star economy. :lol: :tui: And in spite of the facts, English and Key are still bragging how good they are.	Cicero (40)
1394961	2015-02-26 22:31:00	Quite right! If you join the army you are expected to kill, or be killed, so the choice is yours to join or not. In my case I was conscripted, I had no choice. You must be pretty old then. If you are talking about conscription under CMT you were NOT expected to kill or be killed. In actual fact it was a lot of fun, and something I have never regretted doing.	Richard (739)
1394962	2015-02-26 23:31:00	If you were called up for National Service in the UK, then you were likely to end up in war/conflict zones: Malaya, Korea, Cyprus, Kenya, Aden etc	Terry Porritt (14)
1394963	2015-02-27 07:29:00	If you were called up for National Service in the UK, then you were likely to end up in war/conflict zones: Malaya, Korea, Cyprus, Kenya, Aden etc My dad just did garrison service in Germany, he did get taken to visit Belsen concentration camp which had a profound affect on him.	gary67 (56)
1394964	2015-02-27 11:55:00	Honestly I don't know. Armed conflicts which is the words we use for war these days, seem to always get bogged down and seldom achieves peace. On the other hand do we turn away and rise above other human suffering only because it is unknown people in a distant land. The Jordanian pilot being burned to death is a compelling image - we don't have to see it to imagine it. Similarly the beheading by sawing with a knife. Nothing clean and merciful about that. Should a boy from Kentucky or Manchester or Darwin die trying to stop such tragedies? I suspect Yes but if was my son...I really do not know.	Winston001 (3612)
1394965	2015-02-27 18:55:00	I look at it from the point of view that in relatively recent time’s unknown people put their lives on the line in Armed Conflicts so I could live mine, so it’s not unreasonable to reciprocate and try and save others . Messing around, like they did in Vietnam, is nonsense and never likely to succeed, so a full scale all out assault on these guys from all United Nations troops is what is required and if this involves flattening a city or area they have conquered then so be it . To make sure they all turn up, spread the word of a preferential meeting with Allah . :D I think the following cartoon illustrates the mind-set of these nutters well . 6239	B.M. (505)
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