Can anyone tell me why us/uk etc are in iraq/afgan.

Look at a map. Which country is between Iraq and Afghanistan? There's your answer.

In Iraq still looking for WMD - Blair said they were there somewhere so they must be. In Afghanistan looking for a bloke that was in a cave..or the previous poster could be right ;)

We did warn you about voting labour. But did you listen ?

History could suggest, it`s deep-rooted in the basic DNA of the English, and those of English origin to take something that doesn`t belong to them, and attempt to justify all atrocities by smear-campaigns, lies and the spreading of false rumours regarding whoever finds themselves on the receiving end of their military might..........buy personally, I couldn`t possibly comment.

We went in to Afghanistan to wipe out the terrorist training grounds that produced the likes of the 9/11 and 7/11 bombers...

Because we @rse lick the usa.

Are these terrorist training camps still there or are they all gone now?

They`re gone, we`re safe now.

closed for the winter, nothing moves there now for 6 months

I recall a lot of the poppy fields were blasted in the beginning which seemed a sensible policy to me. Is this still the case or are they producing again?

Let us not forget that Pakistan has nukes...if we let the bad guys get their sh!t together and they get hold of one the knockers on here will be begging for some military types to save your candy little @rses.

The poppy fields provide essential work and income - they ARE producing again and we are turning our blind eye.

Isn't that a bit like authorising a bankrobber to rob a bank as it's a source of income :p

Anfield.........We're in Iraq & Afghanistan because,contrary to our beliefs,we live in a dictatorship NOT a 'free' country,we're duped into believing that because we vote to choose our leaders,we're able to control our own destiny .....WELL WHAT A FEKKIN JOKE !!!
We're led by a load of t0$$ers of the highest order and as for Blair well he should swing like Saddam

by the way.......... i before e except after c !!

Blair was advised that Iraq probably had WMDs.......it's not his fault.....he did not make the decision...

^^^^^^^ utter cr@pp

BillKiller 29 Dec 14:36
Look at a map. Which country is between Iraq and Afghanistan? There's your answer.

and have a look to the west as well while you're at it. you'll find a politically unstable, muslim nation with nuclear weapons.

arse**. i meant look to the east.

Should we curry favour?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD06SAf0p9A


this happened 6 hours after the twin towers collapsed without being hit by planes & I don't care what anyone says I can see with my own eyes what happens in this footage...........THEY TOOK US TO WAR
ON LIES & CORRUPTION

I watched a pretty good documentary last night about that very event....Tower 7 collapsed due to fire caused by the burning adjacent towers, nothing sinister from what I saw...but again I was watching tv footage much the same as you...we weren't there like the fireman I watched giving what I thought was an honest account of what happened there at the time.

^^^ Who produced that documentary? Wasn't Walt Disney by any chance was it?

The Leopard 29 Dec 15:14
We went in to Afghanistan to wipe out the terrorist training grounds that produced the likes of the 9/11 and 7/11 bombers...

Are they bombing the 7/11s now then? What next? Budgens?

thought those bombers were saudi, wanna work on their geography.

Hi ho hi ho it's off to work we go ..........

in a building made of matchsticks that just collapses like a pack of cards

Putitinabox&sellit 29 Dec 16:32
^^^ Who produced that documentary? Wasn't Walt Disney by any chance was it?

Don't think it was.....ur mind's obviously made up so who am I to try and change it ?

There's a zillion conspiracy theories out there for all kinds of things...it's a very interesting theatre but there's not enough time to sift through the 'did they, didn't they' facts/fiction. Personally I think we should leave Iraq alone and let them self destruct...not sure yet about Afghanistan but we now have The Yemen to look forward to following that fvckwit's attempt to blow up flight 253 from Amsterdam. It's never gonna end but I'll bet a pound to a pinch of pigsh!t that if we pulled out totally from all theatres of operation the radicals would not stop blowing us up for one second.

Swearbox-agree we cannot pull out-we'll never be able to - there will come a point when we're so overstretched militarily that nuclear weapons will be considered (if they arn't already) which is why the fact that we ever went in in the 1st place is so incomprehensible - we've laid the foundations for armageddon for sure which is exactly what Al Quaida wanted..........we fell straight into the trap and there's no way out

...ur missing the most important bit...we have the nukes and they currently don't...I think that is the crux of the matter...

They are in Afganistan to stop all those terrorists bringing down planes, just like that Nigerian last week, who as far as we know have never set foot on Afganistan. Oh wait .... :-)

The oil's cheap surely!!!

Apparently we are out there because if we ever defeat the taliban we will find Osama in a remote cave somewhere. It was suggested that we would be allowed to enter Pakistan and this would make things a hell of a lot easier. Trouble is that was suggested by Benazir Bhuto and looked what happened.

well the drugs pay for black ops and secret wars.
oh, and the new american, permanent, military bases- they're never leaving- are a reminder to the chinese and russians of the american desire for full spectrum dominance. the british are equally criminally compliant in these illegal "wars".