I'm surprised our own boys weren't a bigger threat to his personal safety than the Taliban :)

That is the difference between British troops and other less developed nations, the UK has good discipline and the military are kept apolitical. Regardless of who is running the country, he/she is British and democratically elected. Lets face it Blair could have been fragged for getting involved in Iraq and not supplying the military with the proper equipment to do the job. Of course, with all the cutbacks there is only one rifle available and the troops have to shout 'Bang!' to save ammunition.:03:

Can you explain for example Gen. Henry Wilson or Gen. William Adair then?

Do you mean Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson (d.1922) and General Sir William Thompson Adair (d.1931)? I was commenting on current times not 80+ years ago.

Recent times suggest that little has changed.

May I point to the Stevens inquiries, the local police told the man leading the official government enquiry that it was the army that burned down his office.
Furthermore the army had already told him that the army unit accused of the arson didn't operate in the six.

Want a decent pension and an inflation busting pay rise?

Become a politician:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23122630

^^^
The words greedy and bastards come to mind on that :yep:

Parliament to get new £100k toilets, because some people are just full of more poop than others!!!

Simple answer who ever votes for it from what ever party they should be expelled from their party's for being greedy pigs.

I could certainly live with a published list of who voted for and against.

I agree jim. :up:

Agree with that. In a time of economic hardship it is unacceptable that MP's think they deserve a pay rise when so many have forced pay freezes.:down::down: The loss of their expenses must really have hurt them financially. It will be interesting to see how many turn the pay rise down.

Not many I suspect.

Up the revolution.