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Originally posted by TheLoneArcher
reply to post by RadeonGFXRHumanGTXisAlien
All the emergency and armed services are volunteer services, and they know the risks yes. I tell you one thing though, when the time finally comes that you truly need them, guess what, they will be there for you, risking life and limb to keep you safe.
Originally posted by TheLoneArcher
reply to post by RadeonGFXRHumanGTXisAlien
Nobody is arguing with you on the fact that war is bad.
As for the Germans, yes many were drafted into fight during WW2, how many innocent Germans willingly ran death camps and executed hundreds of innocent villagers in Europe or shot captured Allied soldiers. Damn, I work in Germany and have, in the past, spoken with ex SS soldiers who said they were proud of what they did. So don't give me any of thet BS regarding innocent German soldiers.
Edit: Although I work in Bavaria, I live in France. In the next Village to where I live, the Germans turned up one day, rounded up all the males between 14 and 60, hearded them into a church, locked the doors, threw grenades though the windows and burned the church down. Why? Because the resistance shot a soldier in the forest and the villagers would not tell them who did it. Now, how innocent was that???
Armies are not there just to fight. Okay, let's wait for the next big natural disaster to hit your town. When you are buried under the rubble with no hope to free yourself, who will you need? Will you condem the soldier that carefully extracts your broken body from the wreckage of your home?
Let me tell you something. You can call me a killer, a murderer or a rapist, just because I wore a uniform. But, if I was to hear you calling for help from the wreckage, yes, I would still save you. It is my duty. We don't just kill, we try to preserve life where possible too.
You can hate me if you want, but if you call for help, I will still come.edit on 6/9/2011 by TheLoneArcher because: Added Text
Originally posted by monkofmimir
this makes me mad on all kind of levels.
First of all its bad enough our soldiers are sent trapesing round the world constantly to meddle in the affairs of other countries in the name of oil. They should be here at home ready to defend this country. During the riots several MP's even admitted that if they couldn't control the riots they had no option to call in the military because there wern't enough soldiers in the uk.
Secondly anyone who signs up to defend this country has most certainly my enternal respect and thanks and if they are injured such as this poor gentleman has they should be provided for by the state for as long as is needed.
Thirdly the Mail are a damn biggoted news organisation and they use things like this to push there political agendas.
Fourthly £1.2 million 7 bedroom house, thats just london being overpriced if there asylum seeker they won't have many conections to specific parts of the country so why house them in the most expensive part!
Fithly Assylum seekers are so unfairly abused in oh so many ways, firstly theres alot of corruption and abuse inflicted on many of them when they first arrive, then if they are granted assylum they are usually unable to work but given barely enough money to live on.