protest in support of UK soldiers who refuse to fight

3 Para(digm) Troopers | 03.04.2003 17:45

PROTEST on FRIDAY 4th April in solidarity with Colchester based soldiers who refuse to take part in the immoral and illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

STARTS 6PM, outside Colchester Town Hall, North Essex.
The army is trying to cover up the fact that 2 members of the Colchester based elite air assault brigade have been sent home from the Gulf for discussing doubts and objections to this war.

Colonel Barton, the garrison boss has instead written a front page local newspaper article which bitterly attacks Colchester peace campaigners for daring to continue to organise protests in our own town.

Tony Blair has even written an open letter to the people of Colchester urging them to support the war!

They do not like the fact that around half the local population, including many army families, still oppose this brutal, bloody and insane war.

Soldiers families feel lied to by the military, and want to know when their loved ones can come home. It is now obvious that our troops are not being greeted as liberators, even by opponents of Saddam in the Shia population of southern Iraq, where the 16 air assault brigade is now engaged.

Rather, people now glimpse the appalling vista of years of military occupation and bitter guerilla war, worse than in Northern Ireland or the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

We do not want to waste the fine young men and women of Colchester's garrison policing a bitter and conquered Iraqi population for George Bush and his friends in the oil corporations.

Army families do not want their sons, husbands and dads killed, injured or mentally traumatised for life after witnessing the brutal deaths and mutilation of innocent Iraqi civilians.

Bring the Troops Home! Stop the War! No to Occupation!
No More Blood for Oil! Stuff Bush and Blair's new colonial empire!

Be there, 6pm, Colchester Town Hall, High St, Colchester, North Essex.

3 Para(digm) Troopers
Homepage: www.Colchesterpeace.org.uk

Comments

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What a load of Bollocks

03.04.2003 20:51

What a load of Bollocks, I think any sane (or right minded person),knows that when these guy's and girls sign up? that they must expect (at some stage) to fight! Why would your so called majority of families(which I seriously doubt is a majority) not wanttheir loved ones, to do what they're paid to do. I think the real thoughts are (majority wise) let them do what they have to and get them home quick (and safe). Stop trying to use the families of our Service men and women as a weapon of your pathetic and obviously failing anti everything movement.

An ordinary Bloke

what a load of

03.04.2003 20:57

What a load of left wing anti everything current Bollocks
you know nothing of the families feelings. All they want is their spouses to to their jobs and get home safe and soon. The money is a bonus war is terrible but an acceptable (and what they signed up for) fact of life.

big bloke

what a load of

03.04.2003 20:58

big bloke

life?

03.04.2003 21:28

the movement is growing across the world. look around you, try looking further than the end of your street, italy for example, although there is more on your street than i bet you care to see. I have a friend whose partner is in the army. From what he says (and others), the army does not want to be involved in this war, cleaning up the american shit. He still has nightmares from the first Gulf war from the horror he has seen. Thats actually seen. Not from looking at pictures of tanks in the pages of the Sun newspaper. too easy isn't it? a war where no bombs fall on your family, your children, destroy your life.
Because war as you are saying, is not just life... actually its bloody, agonising and unjust death. ok if all you have to do is watch it on the 'playstation' news.

heather

obvious when 'middle england' is on IMC

03.04.2003 21:32

Coz there's always a succession of pro-war or 'war is necessary' posts in succession.

The arguments are reliably bogus. 'big bloke' says the original post contains false information and then makes an unsubstantiated assertion of his own.
Duh - without evidence, one "assertion" is as empty as another.

BUT
If there are soldiers being sent home for voicing doubts about the mission, it's a fair bet that THEIR families support THEM.

Like the 'blokes' say: service families surely want their loved ones home, safe, pronto.

MY SPECULATION
Yup - people signing up for the military should accept it may involve fighting.
But they shouldn't expect to put their lives on the line for the sake of the US Defense Secretary's personal financial and business interests.
Blokes - you've been scanning the 'alternative media', you've seen the negative interpretation of this operation. Nothing to stop you checking the facts out for yourselves.

bobby

to an ordinary bloke

04.04.2003 06:17

why arent you at the front fighting?

brian

To brian

04.04.2003 07:55

Well, brian, you are right, all mercenaries should fight where their bosses tell them!

But anyway, read some history. There you can find the role of the UK in the creation of Irak "à la carte" and other stories of brutal interventions all over the world: Africa, India, Greece, etc.

But, what can you do? Now you have a master called USA - a master that who will consider if he will throw you a bone (again read history! Look what happened to Fujimori for example: he did all he could to impose the US policy in Peru, and now that he is useless to them he is Wanted by Interpol!)

The Empire has fallen a long time ago, and the old glory has survived only in some aristocrats and in some other peoples' minds. This is a very effective way to escape from the miserable reality of the modern British society: the 100 poond pensioners, the restrictions of human rights and the "flexible" (sic) labour force.

And about Iraq? I suggest that you should volunteer to collect the cluster bombs that "our boys" are throwing there, singing "Oh, Brittania...!

fifis

soldiers do whats right

04.04.2003 22:55

for once we have HONOURABLE people who know what is right and wrong!!!! their actions prove that not even soldiers, whose job it is to fight for their country think that what they are doing is right. ordinary bloke probably reads an "ordinary" newspaper, a certain bias tabloid...i think we all know what that is!!! i just want to say that i CONGRATULATE the soldiers and say to others to go against this UNJUST and UNFAIR war!!!
NO BLOOD FOR OIL!!!!!!

Steve