Hello, Chickenhawks
This is how it’s done.
According to the BBC: Harry Iraq deployment no surprise
And so, just as the prime minister announces the start of Britain’s phased withdrawal from Iraq, Second Lieutenant Harry Wales of the Household Cavalry, is preparing for a tour of duty in that country.
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But Second Lieutenant Harry Wales will be there, doing his duty with the rest of his regiment, while his father, elder brother and grandmother will – with several thousand other British families – suddenly have a very personal stake in the progress of this particular campaign, and an insight into the stresses that it can provoke.
They may even find themselves reflecting that not a single senior member of this government, the ministers of the Crown who committed Britain to the Iraqi intervention, has had an equivalent experience.
Strange how the real supporters of this mess can’t seem to find the time to serve. It doesn’t take much courage when you are risking the life and limbs of strangers. Lieutenant Wales is going because it’s his job, his duty, not because he thinks it’s a good idea.
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He is following in the footsteps of Prince Phillip who served during WWII and his great grandfather George VI who was a Jutland. He may be a prince, but he is a professional soldier and thus will go with his regiment… I can imagine that some people are filling their pants at the prospect of something happening to him
The time to prevent him from doing this was before he entered Sandhurst.
He needs a job and they aren’t going to let him move furniture and I doubt he wants to be a chartered accountant, so the military is where royals end up.
I do admit that things would get very dicey for Blair if anything happens, but good for Harry for sticking up for himself.
Aha! So that’s the reason Blair is talking about British troops being pulled back home. Interesting… Very interesting, in fact!
Harry’s unit is still due to deploy, even with this withdrawal.