Clause 8 & more

Copy of letter sent to No 10

I cannot believe that ministers are voting to hand out life sentences to deserters. No, I do not condone desertion, there are however already measures in place to deal with that, but a life sentence? Do you really think that our servicemen & women should placed in the same category as murderers, rapists, paedophiles & the like? These people enlisted to protect their country & you would treat them thus?
Has it not occured to any of you that many of the people are probably suffering from some kind of mental breakdown, caused by YOUR decision to send them into conflicts where we have no right to be? i.e. Iraq & Afghanistan. Come down off that cloud Mr Blair & start looking more closely at the reasons why desertion levels are escalating.

Will the recruitment centres be advising potential personnel that this could happen to them? I very much doubt it.

Iraq should never have happened, you know that, practically the whole world knows that, yet you still persist with 'we shall stay until the job's done'. Well, I don't see YOU out there doing 'the job'. Maybe you should spend a month out there living as they do & on occasions having to sleep under their beds wearing a flak jacket & helmet, maybe you would have second thoughts, & now I read that some of the tours are to be extended because of the lack of transport. How fair is that to those people & their families?

Have you no idea of the anguish you have caused so many people, 111 British dead, thousands of Americans & even more innocent Iraqis, not to mention the injured & those that have committed suicide (I suppose you are aware of the latter?) For what?

Maybe you would care to tell me why our people are in Afghanistan too? We don't belong there, the terrain alone will beat us (look at history), how long before the coffins starting arriving from there too?

Get off that ego trip Mr Blair, face facts & get out now.