Helmand letters the truth

fadetoblack · 12 Jul 2009 at 14:33

From the blokes who are fighting there. ( warning contains rude words)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/12/afghanistan-taliban-troops-helmand-letters

Morba · 12 Jul 2009 at 14:34

"It's like painting an elephant red and renaming it a fire engine."

excellent

Chimerical · 12 Jul 2009 at 14:34

We have three threads on a similar subject already...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18030579

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18030588

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18030694

Morba · 12 Jul 2009 at 14:39

Chimerical said:
We have three threads on a similar subject already...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18030579

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18030588

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18030694

so tell a mod to merge them all then?

Chimerical · 12 Jul 2009 at 14:41

Morba said:
so tell a mod to merge them all then?

I don't think the current threads should be merged because they are all about different things but this link could have been placed in any of those currently existing threads.

Morba · 12 Jul 2009 at 14:44

If they are all different, then maybe he should post the link in all 3. Or would you then say the OP is spamming?

I think you are being very picky. there is a report post option, i suggest you use it rather than whinge in the thread itself

daz · 12 Jul 2009 at 15:17

In one of the letters (the first on the website) the editor of The Guardian has added [MPs] when i don't think the author of the letter is talking about MPs... but actually immigrants

This place is a ******* joke and we should **** these money-grabbing, smelly, lazy ******* off [MPs] and spend the money on our own.

Muffin` · 12 Jul 2009 at 15:24

daz said:
In one of the letters (the first on the website) the editor of The Guardian has added [MPs] when i don't think the author of the letter is talking about MPs... but actually immigrants

I took it as the farmers, they're subsidised for not growing poppies arn't they?

SideWinder · 12 Jul 2009 at 15:24

Morba said:
so tell a mod to merge them all then?

No. YOU tell a mod to merge them!

atpbx · 12 Jul 2009 at 15:43

Soldiers unhappy that they are not making any difference in Afghanistan?

Shurly shum mishtake Miss Funnyfanny.

meghatronic · 12 Jul 2009 at 15:48

daz said:
In one of the letters (the first on the website) the editor of The Guardian has added [MPs] when i don't think the author of the letter is talking about MPs... but actually immigrants

I thought he was talking about the Afghans... be they farmers or army or whatever.

Morba · 12 Jul 2009 at 22:06

SideWinder said:
No. YOU tell a mod to merge them!

why should i? i don't have an issue with this being a 4th thread in its own right

Strife212 · 12 Jul 2009 at 22:21

daz said:
In one of the letters (the first on the website) the editor of The Guardian has added [MPs] when i don't think the author of the letter is talking about MPs...

Yeah, thats some really shocking journalism :eek: