Wasting our ill-equipped armed forces.

Americans looking at Iraq and Afghanistan can comfort themselves that there have been no further terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11. Britons with our home grown terrorists, provided courtesy of our useless politicians, can draw no such consolation. Are others not now asking if our armed forces might be more usefully,productively and safely engaged in the woods around the Islamic school in Crowborough where the Government has known terrorists may have been trained for the past seven years. As this blog has repeatedly questioned. What is the mission in Afghanistan? At least some in the MSM are also now asking similar questions. The Times, this morning, has this astute observation from William Rees-Mogg: Britain is now stuck in Afghanistan .......... The Prime Minister may well be right to think that British forces are engaged in “a vital mission” there. Yet, one would welcome greater strategic clarity. There are three questions to which every strategy should be subjected. What is the objective? What resources will be required? What will be the exit? Unfortunately Afghanistan has been one of those issues on which the three main parties in the House of Commons have agreed........ .......My impression is that the public have become suspicious of the Afghan project on two grounds. They doubt whether enough resources have been given to the protection of our troops and are not willing to take many more British casualties in order to prevent Afghan peasants growing poppies. The entire opinion piece may be read from this link. The disconnect between the people of Britain and their elected politicians seems to this blogger to be entirely due to the endless stream of lies being finally seen for what they are. The following is the latest update from The Guardian, Linked Here. 4.15pm update

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British military toll continues to rise Staff and agencies Monday September 4, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Danish soldiers carry the body of one of two British soldiers killed by a roadside bomb near Basra, Iraq. Photograph: Atef Hassan/Reuters Three British soldiers have been killed and two seriously injured in ongoing violence in Afghanistan and Iraq today, according to the Ministry of Defence.

The deaths came amid increasing concern about the army's overseas deployments and two days after 14 British soldiers were killed when an RAF Nimrod plane crashed in southern Afghanistan.

General Dannatt, the new head of the British army, told the Guardian today that soldiers were fighting at the limit of their capacity and could only just cope with the demands placed on them by the government.