Col Tim Collins' inspirational speech - Kenneth Branagh

This speech really is inspirational... It would get me going if I were to ever be sent off in Iraq, even though I would be a fighter pilot.

Thx for reply... I was thinking WRONG WAR! Bad George..(lashes from Adm Nelson) I was thinking '91, not '03. Hence his strict command on magnanity, etc. Now, send rum rations since '91. and accept this apology. I'm too tall for tanks, so gave up West Point. If you had Keegan at Sand.-luckey you. Best, GFT

This could blow your mind... a number of high ranking Irish Republicans were Protestant (Yeats, Tandy, Tone) and today there are Nationalists who vote for Ian Paisley.

What? No nationalists vote for Paisley (he's a loyalist, you prat.) Yeats wasn't a republican. I'm not an Irish-American and I don't take a romantic view of the Irish (I myself am half-Irish.) I was simply enquiring as to how many Catholics/"Southerners" there are in the BRITISH ARMY, as I have not found any figures detailing such things.

I've friends in Ulster (on both sides) and it's well known that, as a politican, Paisley has both Unionists and Nationalists in his voting block (you cunt) As for Yeats, he was a staunch Nationalist... he was a Senator in the Free State and wrote numerous poems favoring the uprising and the sacrifice therein. Any other questions Sparky?!

Sparky? I've read a dozen books on the sunject and your sources are "friends"? Fuck you, you ignorant cunt. No nationalists vote for Ian Paisley, because he's a loyalist. I suppose UVF men vote for Sinn Féin, do they? And Ian Paisley attends mass regularly? Yeats was a nationalist, not a republican. Can you not tell the difference? It's what I'd expect from an American.

This might come as shock but not all Irish people (either north, south, Protestant or Catholic) speak like leprechauns or Tom Cruise with his central-casting Irish accent.

As a Yookaystan expat living in America I'm equally proud of the British soldiers as I am of the American soldiers. Had the best of the Allied Forces been turned loose and allowed to do their jobs this could have been cleaned up a long time ago. Unfortunately the Allies were fighting political constraints and media perception before they even got to the `theater of war` and that's why its dragged on for so damn long.

The reason for the embargo was because Saddam was breaking the restrictions put upon him after the 1st Gulf War. The reason for the first Gulf War was because Iraq invaded another sovereign nation in the Middle East (Kuwait) and had they have been left to their own devices they may have taken another crack at the Iranians. Or further cracks at the Israelis. Had they have been left to take another crack at the Israeli's, nuclear confrontation could have occured...

If you ignore the local thuggery of Saddam, if you ignore his terrorist ties, if you ignore the fact that the Turkey/Syria border is as close to Central Europe as Kentucky is to Texas (any nuclear confrontation in the middle east and Europe will be caught in the after affects) then then (as you might say) "this is a weally weally howbile war". If you could spend more time thinking rationally about it and less time marching with the Socialist Worker idiots shotuing slogans we could talk more.